Affective Politics of the Global Event : Routledge : 9780815399735 : 0815399731 : 04 Jun 2018 : Market life is increasingly conducted in the shadow of global events like 9/11, the Sub-Prime crisis and Brexit. Within International political economy (IPE) two broad positions can be discerned: either the event is ?just an event', a superficial spectacle in an otherwise straightforward story of power and hierarchy; or the event is large enough to be considered a ?crisis'. While sympathetic to such arguments, this book develops a more performative politics of the global event, arguing that the very idea of the event must be placed in question. How is the event constructed? How are market subjects performed in relation to the event? This book argues that emotional and psychological discourses of ?trauma' and ?resilience' provide an important affective register for understanding how the global event is ?known', how it is governed, and how the affective dimensions of market life might be live