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Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling
wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our
ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of
politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist
feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of
capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from
ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial
violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all
come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us
envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy. What we
need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can
recognize the rapaciousness of capital - and starve it to death.
"A wonderfully rich and insightful collection of well-integrated
essays on important current thinkers and social movements." -Martin
Jay University of California, Berkeley Unruly Practices brings
together a series of widely discussed essays in feminism and social
theory. Read together, they constitute a sustained critical
encounter with leading European and American approaches to social
theory. In addition, Nancy Fraser develops a new and original
socialist-feminist critical theory that overcomes many of the
limitations of current alternatives. First, in a series of critical
essays, she deploys philosophical and literary techniques to sort
the wheat from the chaff in the work of Michel Foucault, the French
deconstructionists, Richard Rorty, and Jurgen Habermas. Then, in a
group of constructive essays, she incorporates their respective
strengths in a new critical theory of late-capitalist political
culture. Fraser breaks new ground methodologically by integrating
the previously divergent insights of poststructuralism, critical
social theory, feminist theory, and pragmatism. Thematically, she
deals with varied forms of dominance and subordination in modern,
industrial, late-capitalist societies - especially gender dominance
and subordination; state-bureaucratic forms of organization; the
institutional politics of knowledge and expertise; and the
structure and function of social-welfare programs. In the last
section of the book, these themes are integrated in an original
theory of "the politics of need interpretation." This concept
becomes the linchpin of he socialist-feminist critical theory
proposed in the last chapter.
Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of
escalating, overlapping crisis - ecological, political, social -
which we may not survive. In this brilliant, wide-ranging
conversation, political philosophers Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi
identify capitalism as the source of the devastation and examine
its in-built tendency to crisis. In an exchange that ranges across
history, critical theory, ecology, feminism and political theory,
Fraser and Jaeggi find that capitalism's tendency to separate what
is connected - human from non-human nature, commodity production
and social reproduction - is at the heart of its crisis tendency.
These "boundary struggles," Fraser and Jaeggi conclude, constitute
capitalism's most destructive power but are also the sites where a
fighting left movement might be able to halt the destruction and
build the non-capitalist future we so desperately need. A crucial
text for students of political theory, economic theory, and social
change, Capitalism offers an invigorated critique of twenty-first
century capitalism and an incisive study of our current
conjuncture.
Refuting the argument to choose between "the politics of
recognition" and the "politics of redistribution," Justice
Interruptus integrates the best aspects of both.
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does it mean to think critically about politics at a time when
inequality is increasing worldwide, when struggles for the
recognition of difference are eclipsing struggles for social
equality, and when we lack any credible vision of an alternative to
the present order? Philosopher Nancy Fraser claims that the key is
to overcome the false oppositions of "postsocialist" commonsense.
Refuting the view that we must choose between "the politics of
recognition" and the "politics of redistribution," Fraser argues
for an integrative approach that encompasses the best aspects of
both.
Refuting the argument to choose between "the politics of
recognition" and the "politics of redistribution," Justice
Interruptus integrates the best aspects of both.
********************************************************* ** What
does it mean to think critically about politics at a time when
inequality is increasing worldwide, when struggles for the
recognition of difference are eclipsing struggles for social
equality, and when we lack any credible vision of an alternative to
the present order? Philosopher Nancy Fraser claims that the key is
to overcome the false oppositions of "postsocialist" commonsense.
Refuting the view that we must choose between "the politics of
recognition" and the "politics of redistribution," Fraser argues
for an integrative approach that encompasses the best aspects of
both.
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change,
border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists
talking about. But don't these issues impact the vast majority of
women globally? Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist
militancy that has erupted globally, this Manifesto makes a simple
but powerful case: Feminism shouldn't start - or stop - with seeing
women represented at the top of society. It must start with those
at the bottom, and fight for the world they deserve. And that means
targeting capitalism. Feminism must be anti-capitalist,
eco-socialist and anti-racist. This is a manifesto for the 99%.
During the ferment of the New Left, "Second Wave" feminism emerged
as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside
other radical movements that were questioning core features of
capitalist society. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity
politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the
rise of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing a revival in the movement,
Fraser argues for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism able to
address the global economic crisis. Feminism can be a force working
in concert with other egalitarian movements in the struggle to
bring the economy under democratic control, while building on the
visionary potential of the earlier waves of women's liberation.
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The Perils of Populism (Hardcover)
Sarah Tobias, Arlene Stein; Contributions by Valentine M. Moghadam, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Khadijah Costley White, …
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From Donald Trump in the U.S. to Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Viktor
Orbán in Hungary, and Narendra Modi in India, right-wing populist
leaders have taken power in many parts of the world. While each
country’s populist movement is distinct, they are united by
several key features, including the presence of a boastful
strongman leader and the scapegoating of vulnerable populations,
especially immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, and women.
The Perils of Populism shows how a feminist lens can help
diagnose the factors behind the global rise of right-wing populism
and teach us how to resist the threat it presents to democracy.
Featuring interdisciplinary essays about politics in the United
States, the Middle East, Europe, and India from a variety of
acclaimed theorists and activists, the volume contributes to a
rapidly expanding literature on gender and the far right. Together,
these chapters offer a truly intersectional analysis of the
problem, addressing everything from how populism has thrived in a
“post-truth” era to the ways it appeals to working-class voters
looking for an alternative to neoliberalism. Yet the authors also
find reasons to be hopeful, as they showcase forms of grassroots
feminist activism that challenge right-wing populism by advocating
for racial and economic justice.
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The Perils of Populism (Paperback)
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Recognition has become a keyword of our time, but its relation to
economic redistribution remains unclear. This volume stages a
debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other
German, who hold different views of the relation of redistribution
to recognition. Axel Honneth conceives recognition as the
fundamental, over-arching moral category, potentially encompassing
redistribution, while Nancy Fraser argues that the two categories
are both fundamental and mutually irreducible. In alternating
chapters the authors respond to each other's criticisms, and offer
a lively dialogue on identity politics, capitalism and social
justice. The volume is a dramatic riposte to those who proclaim the
death of grand theory.
Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of
globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to
understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical
social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and
theorizing globalization in its full complexity? Globalizing
Critical Theory collects essays by scholars at the forefront of
Critical Theory as they confront this timely topic. This book
offers readers a chance to see contemporary Critical Theory in its
full range from political analyses of a global public sphere,
critical race theory, and the politics of memory, to aesthetics and
media studies. It includes crucial new essays by Jurgen on the
transformations of the global order in the wake of the American
invasion of Iraq, and major interventions by Nancy Fraser, Peter
Hohendahl, Andreas Huyssen, James Bohman, and others. Globalizing
Critical Theory provides a fascinating exploration of how Critical
Theory is confronting the question of globalization and how
globalization is transforming Critical Theory.
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of
globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to
understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical
social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and
theorizing globalization in its full complexity? Globalizing
Critical Theory collects essays by scholars at the forefront of
Critical Theory as they confront this timely topic. This book
offers readers a chance to see contemporary Critical Theory in its
full range-from political analyses of a global public sphere,
critical race theory, and the politics of memory, to aesthetics and
media studies. It includes crucial new essays by JYrgen on the
transformations of the global order in the wake of the American
invasion of Iraq, and major interventions by Nancy Fraser, Peter
Hohendahl, Andreas Huyssen, James Bohman, and others. Globalizing
Critical Theory provides a fascinating exploration of how Critical
Theory is confronting the question of globalization-and how
globalization is transforming Critical Theory.
Contemporary feminist theory and postmodernism have left
significant marks on how we think about practical matters, most
notably the old and new forms of gender struggles that many women
confront in their daily lives. The essays collected in Gender
Struggles are designed to highlight those influences by addressing
the following questions: What is practical feminism in a postmodern
world? How does rethinking the nature and boundaries of philosophy
affect the way we understand practical issues that we confront
daily? What new forms of freedom, autonomy, subjectivity, social
welfare, motherhood, public and private space, and political
resistance have emerged from this new philosophical sense?
Together, the sixteen essays in this volume represent many
different voices of feminists who boldly take up familiar, everyday
concerns from unorthodox vantage points within new conceptual and
theoretical frameworks. The essays in Gender Struggles address a
wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar
ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of
feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual
violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and
multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate
speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that
traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for
philosophizing, such as adoption, care work, and the home.
Incorporating the latest, most 'cutting-edge' material on feminism,
this volume aims at reaching a broad spectrum of readers by
connecting postmodern feminist theory with concrete issues that are
practical and relevant to their daily lives and experiences.
Across the globe politics as usual are being rejected and faith in
neoliberalism is fracturing beyond repair. Leading political
theorist Nancy Fraser, in conversation with Jacobin publisher
Bhaskar Sunkara, dissects neoliberalism's current crisis and argues
that we might wrest new futures from its ruins. The global
political, ecological, economic, and social breakdown-symbolized,
but not caused, by Trump's election-has destroyed faith that
neoliberal capitalism is beneficial to the majority. Fraser
explores how this faith was built through the late twentieth
century by balancing two central tenets: recognition (who deserves
rights) and distribution (who deserves income). When these began to
fray, new forms of outsider populist politics emerged on the left
and the right. These, Fraser argues, are symptoms of the larger
crisis of hegemony for neoliberalism, a moment when, as Gramsci had
it, "the old is dying and the new cannot be born." Explored further
in an accompanying interview with Jacobin publisher Bhaskar
Sunkara, Fraser argues that we now have the opportunity to build
progressive populism into an emancipatory social force, one that
can claim a new hegemony.
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