A sweep through key arguments about the abstracting logic of capital will yield a common emphasis, which is a stress on the “indifference” of capital to those it exploits. For sure, this is evident in some of Marx’s own writings. Witness points in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts on [...]
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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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Capitalism is characterised by relentless structural pressures towards constant outward expansion. It strives to submit ever more areas to market forces and profit-making. Water is no exception in this respect. Whether it is the expropriation of water for the extractive industry or bottled [...]
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Call for presenters
Bringing life’s work to market: A symposium on practices and spaces of marketised social reproduction
16-17 December 2019, University of Auckland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
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Janaka Biyanwila, ‘Sports and the Global South: Work, Play and Resistance in Sri Lanka’
This talk is about reimagining the pleasures of sports from a Global South perspective. It will explore how the celebration of ‘sportive nationalism,’ promoting sports markets in the Global [...]
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In high school, like many young women, my friends and I developed a fascination with witches. Years before we knew what feminism was, a sense of foreboding had developed among us, about our place in the world and our power relative to adults and to our male peers. As ambitious teen girls [...]
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