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In this forceful study, Helen C. Scott situates The Tempest within
Marxist analyses of the 'primitive accumulation' of capital, which
she suggests help explain the play's continued and particular
resonance. The 'storm' of the title refers both to Shakespeare's
Tempest hurtling through time, and to Walter Benjamin's concept of
history as a succession of violent catastrophes. Scott begins with
an account of the global processes of dispossession-of the
peasantry and indigenous populations-accompanying the emergence of
capitalism, which generated new class relationships, new
understandings of human subjectivity, and new forms of oppression
around race, gender, and disability. Developing a detailed reading
of the play at its moment of production in the business of theatre
in 1611, Scott then moves gracefully through the global reception
history, showing how its central thematic concerns and figurative
patterns bespeak the upheavals and dispossessions of successive
stages of capitalist development. Paying particular attention to
moments of social crisis, and unearthing a radical political
tradition, Scott follows the play from its hostile takeover in the
Restoration, through its revival by the Romantics, and
consolidation and contestation in the nineteenth century. In the
twentieth century transatlantic modernism generated an acutely
dystopic Tempest, then during the global transformations of the
1960s postcolonial writers permanently associated it with
decolonization. At century's end the play became a vehicle for
exploring intersectional oppression, and the remarkable 'Sycorax
school' featured iconoclastic readings by writers such as Abena
Busia, May Joseph, and Sylvia Wynter. Turning to both popular
culture and high-profile stage productions in the twenty-first
century, Scott explores the ramifications and figurative potential
of Shakespeare's Tempest for global social and ecological crises
today. Sensitive to the play's original concerns and informed by
recent scholarship on performance and reception history as well as
disability studies, Scott's moving analysis impels readers towards
a fresh understanding of sea-change and metamorphosis as potent
symbols for the literal and figurative tempests of capitalism's old
age now threatening 'the great globe itself.'
In this forceful study, Helen C. Scott situates The Tempest within
Marxist analyses of the 'primitive accumulation' of capital, which
she suggests help explain the play's continued and particular
resonance. The 'storm' of the title refers both to Shakespeare's
Tempest hurtling through time, and to Walter Benjamin's concept of
history as a succession of violent catastrophes. Scott begins with
an account of the global processes of dispossession-of the
peasantry and indigenous populations-accompanying the emergence of
capitalism, which generated new class relationships, new
understandings of human subjectivity, and new forms of oppression
around race, gender, and disability. Developing a detailed reading
of the play at its moment of production in the business of theatre
in 1611, Scott then moves gracefully through the global reception
history, showing how its central thematic concerns and figurative
patterns bespeak the upheavals and dispossessions of successive
stages of capitalist development. Paying particular attention to
moments of social crisis, and unearthing a radical political
tradition, Scott follows the play from its hostile takeover in the
Restoration, through its revival by the Romantics, and
consolidation and contestation in the nineteenth century. In the
twentieth century transatlantic modernism generated an acutely
dystopic Tempest, then during the global transformations of the
1960s postcolonial writers permanently associated it with
decolonization. At century's end the play became a vehicle for
exploring intersectional oppression, and the remarkable 'Sycorax
school' featured iconoclastic readings by writers such as Abena
Busia, May Joseph, and Sylvia Wynter. Turning to both popular
culture and high-profile stage productions in the twenty-first
century, Scott explores the ramifications and figurative potential
of Shakespeare's Tempest for global social and ecological crises
today. Sensitive to the play's original concerns and informed by
recent scholarship on performance and reception history as well as
disability studies, Scott's moving analysis impels readers towards
a fresh understanding of sea-change and metamorphosis as potent
symbols for the literal and figurative tempests of capitalism's old
age now threatening 'the great globe itself.'
"Sometimes, it's easy to feel like the only lesbian in the world -
let alone in the village. But wherever you are with your sexuality,
you've just picked up a book with the word 'lesbian' in the title
and I know baby you would be so proud." From strap-ons and Lesbian
Bed Death to dealing with homophobic microaggressions in the
workplace and finding your second family, Helen Scott, lesbian big
sister and lipstick femme in chief is here to hold your hand as you
travel your own unique path to Gay Town. Half memoir, half guide,
and 100% big lesbian hug, plunge with Helen into the highs and lows
of navigating lesbian life in the modern world and emerge with all
the lesbian life hacks you'll need to get out there and live the
life of your dreams. Candid, wise, bold and hilarious - it's time
to reclaim the L in LGBTQ+
The delict of iniuria is among the most sophisticated products of
the Roman legal tradition. The original focus of the delict was
assault, although iniuria-literally a wrong or unlawful
act-indicated a very wide potential scope. Yet it quickly grew to
include sexual harassment and defamation, and by the first century
CE it had been re-oriented around the concept of contumelia so as
to incorporate a range of new wrongs, including insult and invasion
of privacy. In truth, it now comprised all attacks on personality.
It is the Roman delict of iniuria which forms the foundation of
both the South African and-more controversially-Scots laws of
injuries to personality. On the other hand, iniuria is a concept
formally alien to English law. But as its title suggests, this book
of essays is representative of a species of legal scholarship best
described as 'oxymoronic comparative law', employing a concept
peculiar to one legal tradition in order to interrogate another
where, apparently, it does not belong. Addressing a series of
doctrinal puzzles within the law of assault, defamation and breach
of privacy, it considers in what respects the Roman delict of
iniuria overlaps with its modern counterparts in England, Scotland
and South Africa; the differences and similarities between the
analytical frameworks employed in the ancient and modern law; and
the degree to which the Roman proto-delict points the way to future
developments in each of these three legal systems.
This new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's two most
important works presents the full text of Reform or Revolution and
The Mass Strike, with explanatory notes and introductions. One of
the most important Marxist thinkers and leaders of the 20th
century, Rosa Luxemburg is finding renewed interest among a new
generation of activists and critics of global capitalism. Born in
1871, Luxemburg became a leader of the international socialist
movement.
Conventional thinking teaches that the absence of liability - in
particular contractual invalidity - is itself the reason for the
restitution of transfers in the South African law of unjustified
enrichment. However, this book argues that while the absence of a
relationship of indebtedness is a necessary condition for
restitution in such cases, it is not a sufficient condition. The
book takes as its focus those instances in which the invalidity
thesis is strongest, namely, those traditionally classified as
instances of the condictio indebiti, the claim to recover undue
transfers. It seeks to demonstrate that in all such instances it is
necessary for the plaintiff to show not only the absence of his
liability to transfer but also a specific reason for restitution,
such as mistake, compulsion or incapacity. Furthermore, this book
explores the reasons for the rise of unjust factors in South
African law, attributing this development in part to the influence
of the Roman-Dutch restitutio in integrum, an extraordinary,
equitable remedy that has historically operated independently of
the established enrichment remedies of the civilian tradition, and
which even now remains imperfectly integrated into the substantive
law of enrichment. Finally, the book seeks to defend in principled
terms the mixed approach to enrichment by transfer (an approach
based both on unjust factors and on the absence of a legal ground)
which appears to characterise modern South African law. It
advocates the rationalisation of the causes of action comprised
within the condictio indebiti, many of which are subject to
additional historically-determined requirements, in light of this
mixed analysis.
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