Although often depicted as victims of climate change, poverty, land dispossession or gendered violence, rural women from agrarian communities are active political agents who seek to dismantle gendered relations and structures of colonial power. From countries in Latin America, South Asia, [...]
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The first book that the Past & Present Reading Group has encountered in 2021 has been Martha Giménez’s Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays. Giménez’s aims are to theorise the relationship between the capitalist mode of production, social reproduction [...]
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In 2017, Ariel Salleh published the second edition of her book Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern (Zed Books, 2017). In her outstanding engagement with multiple oppressions within the capitalist global economy, she convincingly argues that patriarchal oppression is [...]
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Feminist theories of ”the international’ have often had an awkward relationship with feminist political and social theory. While historically under pressure to temper the language of feminism and to alter feminist methodologies to fit within the discipline of International [...]
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In her recent volume Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, Silvia Federici fruitfully brings together feminist reflections with discussions of the commons as a possible way of overcoming capitalism. In this blog post, I will introduce the main lines [...]
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In her powerful book Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici makes the important claim that the medieval witch-hunt across Europe constituted part of the processes of primitive accumulation, preparing the ground for the emergence of capitalism. While the enclosures put an end to [...]
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… Here lies in ruin
The masterpiece of gods, the tower of Asia.
To her defence allies had come from far,
From the nine mouths of frozen Tanäis,
And from the birthplace of the dawn, where Tigris
Pours his hot stream into the ruby sea;
Hither had come [...]
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Join Australian Feminist Studies (AFS) and the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney for the launch of AFS’ special issue on ‘Money’. The issue asks: how is money a feminist issue?
Speakers include:
Lisa Adkins (Head of School, [...]
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