Re-enchanting the world : feminism and the politics of the commons
Silvia Federici (Author), Peter Linebaugh
"Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues and debates in contemporary thinking on this subject. Drawing on rich historical research, she maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the "new enclosures" at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation. Considering the commons from a feminist perspective, this collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both our economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions capital has planted in the body of the world proletariat. Federici is clear that the commons should not be understood as happy islands in a sea of exploitative relations but rather autonomous spaces from which to challenge the existing capitalist organization of life and labor"--Publisher's description
eBook, English, 2019
PM Press ; Autonomedia, Oakland, CA, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages)
9781629636214, 9781629635859, 1629636215, 1629635855
1052766394
Foreword / Peter Linebaugh
Introduction
Part one. On the new enclosures. On primitive accumulation, globalization, and reproduction
Introduction to the new enclosures
The debt crisis, Africa, and the new enclosures
China: breaking the iron rice bowl
From commoning to debt: financialization, microcredit, and the changing architecture of capital accumulation
Part two. On the commons. Beneath the United States, the Commons
Commons against and beyond Capitalism
The University: a knowledge common?
Feminism and the politics of the commons in an era of primitive accumulation
Women's struggles for land in Africa and the reconstruction of the commons
Women's struggles for land and the common good in Latin America
Marxism, feminism, and the commons
From crisis to commons: reproductive work, affective labor and technology, and the transformation of everyday life
Re-enchanting the world: technology, the body, and the construction of the commons