{"id":23,"date":"2006-02-07T13:58:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-10-08T02:46:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T00:46:26","slug":"multitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/multitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"multitudes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Capitalism part II: a feminist analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the United States, both in and out of the academy, a new wind is blowing: the hopes of a revived Left with its focus on the terrors of global capitalism. U.S. militarization abroad and social cutbacks at home have united splintered opponents, offering prospects of a common voice. In the academy, the charisma of Hardt and Negri&#8217;s <em>Empire<\/em> has recharged Left scholarship. The revival of the Left is wonderful; one can feel the new energy. But it&#8217;s just a bit too familiar. Once again the faces of those who point toward a common future are white and male. And if they have learned anything in the last three decades about gender, race and national status, they aren&#8217;t showing it.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Anna Tsing &#8211; <em>Subcontracting et.al.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/iafr.ucsc.edu\/index.html\">Institute for Advanced Feminist Research<\/a> has a session later this afternoon with Anna Tsing presenting her work-in-progress  &#8211; a feminist retort to Left theories of capitalism in which gender, race, and national status are subsumed to pre-established common cause.<\/p>\n<p>Commentaries by, among others, Gopal Balikrishnan, Chris Connery, Julie Guthman, Johanna Isaacson, Tamara Spira and Neferti Tadiar. Anna&#8217;s paper is inspiring and i&#8217;ll write up some impressions of the discussion later this evening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitalism part II: a feminist analysis &#8220;In the United States, both in and out of the academy, a new wind is blowing: the hopes of a revived Left with its focus on the terrors of global capitalism. U.S. militarization abroad and social cutbacks at home have united splintered opponents, offering prospects of a common voice. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/multitudes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;multitudes?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}