For Polanyian Economic Geographies

Abstract

Ramírez-Marques, MC, and Izquierdo, M. Effect of unilateral, bilateral, and combined plyometric training on explosive and endurance performance of young soccer players. J Strength Cond Res 29(5): 1317-1328, 2015-The aim of the study was to compare the effects of bilateral, unilateral, or combined bilateral and unilateral plyometric training (PT) on muscle power output, endurance, and balance performance adaptations in young soccer players. Four groups of young soccer players (age 11.4 6 2.2 years) were divided into control group (CG; n = 14), bilateral group (BG; n = 12), unilateral group (UG; n = 16), and bilateral + unilateral group (B + UG; n = 12). Players were measured in unilateral and bilateral countermovement jump with arms, 5 multiple bounds test, 20-cm drop jump reactive strength index, maximal kicking velocity, sprint and agility test time, endurance, and balance performance. The PT was applied during 6 weeks, 2 sessions per week, for a total of 2,160 jumps. After intervention, all PT groups showed a statistically significant (p # 0.05) change in all performance measures, with no statistically significant differences between treatments. Among the 21 performance measures, the B + UG showed a significantly (p # 0.05) higher performance change in 13 of them vs. the CG, whereas the UG and BG showed only 6 and 3, respectively. The current study showed that bilateral, unilateral, and combined bilateral and unilateral PT ensured significant improvement in several muscular power and endurance performance measures in young soccer players. However, the combination of unilateral and bilateral drills seems more advantageous to induce superior performance improvements.

Disembedding Polanyi: Exploring Polanyian Economic Geographies

“…In linear terms, it can seem as if the market moves and then society responds; the economy is the dynamic and (over)driving first mover, with society recoiling in self-protection. But this does not appear to have been the author's intent, and the double movement can also be read as an invitation to an open-ended, dialectical mode of analysis, and as a logical complement to the kinds of (principled) explanatory and political pluralism that Polanyi espoused (Peck, 2013;Prudham, 2013). In this vein, Rankin (2013) makes the case for creative elaborations of the Polanyian intuition, as a means of opening up questions, rather than foreclosing answers.…”

“…There are sound reasons, then, to read Polanyi's oeuvre forgivingly, and for its potential rather than only in terms of its limits. Viewed in such terms, for its creative provocations and constructive possibilities, Polanyi's unfinished agenda can be interpreted as a license for a deeply institutionalized form of 'comparative economy', opening a methodological path for an expansive, relational analysis of (and between) variegated economies, capitalist and otherwise (Peck, 2013;Rankin, 2013). This called for comparison across (often distant) sites, as well as the recovery of historical forms; it also entailed theorizing across socioeconomic difference within heterogeneous (regional) formations.…”

‘Hipster Capitalism’ in the Age of Austerity? Polanyi Meets Bourdieu’s New Petite Bourgeoisie

“…Like Bourdieu, Polanyi approaches the study of the material world through the sub-disciplinary entry point of economic anthropology. Both share an ambivalent relationship to analytical Marxism while also rejecting the modelling and the abstractions of homo economicus inspired methodological individualism (Peck, 2013b;Swedberg, 2011). They favour fine-grained substantive studies of economic action structured by multiple historical and cultural institutions (Polanyi) or fields (Bourdieu).…”

Stepping up to strike: a union mobilization case study of Polish migrant workers in the Netherlands

“…Moral economy moves beyond this dichotomist view by understanding social relations and moral sentiments as constituting markets, economic actions, decisions and shaping working lives (Bolton and Laaser 2013: 513). It is a substantivist, holistic approach to understanding economic life and the mutually constitutive relations between different actors and institutions (Gemici 2008;Peck 2013). Moral economy is a methodological approach that I use to understand the social construction and dynamics of migrant employment and labour relations in the Netherlands and contemporary Europe.…”