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After the Economic Miracle \u2013 Due May 1, 2023<\/h1>\n
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After the Economic Miracle
\n<\/strong>Issue number 151 (January 2025)
\nAbstract Deadline:\u00a0<\/em>May 1, 2023
\nCo-Edited<\/em>\u00a0by Ravinder Kaur and Barbara Weinstein<\/p>\n

To witness the world through the many unfolding \u201ceconomic miracles\u201d is to behold dreamworlds and catastrophes all at once. Initially tied to the post-war phenomenon of\u00a0wirtschaftswunder<\/em> \u2013 the dramatic pace of economic recovery in West Germany \u2013 the seductive idea of \u201ceconomic miracle\u201d captured the imagination of policymakers especially across the old third world. From the \u201cmiracle on the Han river\u201d in South Korea, the \u201cEast Asian miracle,\u201d the South East Asian \u201ctiger economies\u201d to the \u201cChilean miracle\u201d and the \u201cSingapore model,\u201d the many iterations of the capitalist growth story have appeared in the post-war world. The idea was replayed once again at the turn of the millennium, this time as the attention-grabbing ascendance of the Asian giants \u2013 China and India \u2013 the promise of a rising Africa or the formation of the BRICS \u2013 Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa \u2013 as players in the theater of the world economy. \u00a0What is common to this phenomenon across time and space is the faith the elite policymakers and the middle class put in the miraculous power of free-market capitalism to bring progress and prosperity, a chance to harness the futures. Yet, what has been revealed too in the past decades is the underbelly of the economic miracle, the slow devastation that coheres growth and greater inequality, accumulation and dispossession, populist sweep of authoritarianism, and violent suppression of democratic dissent.<\/p>\n

This special issue invites contributions that critically trace the utopias\/dystopias of economic miracles. To this end, we seek to unpack the kind of work the idea of \u201cmiracle\u201d performs in the domain of economy. To believe in a miracle is to be in awe, to witness something happen that is conceptually deemed impossible\u2014for example, the incredibly high rates of growth and low rates of inflation of the economic miracle orchestrated by Brazil\u2019s military dictatorship. This sense of the miraculous is what is invoked to denote the wonder of economic growth, to reassign nations and world areas that were once deemed to be \u201clagging behind\u201d as emerging markets filled with promise and possibilities. The term \u201ceconomic miracle\u201d is, then, intricately tied with manifold crises of poverty and destruction in times of peace and war. This historical dialectic between ruins and reconstruction, decline and emergence remains at the heart of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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The suggested themes include the following but are not limited to:<\/p>\n