Search Results for movement capital

... TLC Taiwan imagined mobility movement capital ...

.... In using TLC to think out new identities based on the capacity for social and geographic movement, this chapter argues that these viewers are accumulating an immaterial form of “movement capital”; it is through shoring up the value of such movement capital that lifestyle programming on TLC Taiwan...

..., are anchored in webs of relations that capitalism can never capitalize. social movements; worlding; Pierre Clastres; capitalist delirium ...

.... The struggle to make Sucre the unitary capital (capital plena) served the opposition as a unifying symbol and fuel for direct action. At no time was this movement more volatile than in 2007, when street violence paralyzed Sucre and nearly shut down the Constituent Assembly. The movement publicly harassed...

... This chapter examines the sequencing and depth of reforms intended to abolish flogging, capital punishment, and slavery in relation to different categories of the intractable poor in Brazil and abroad. It delves deeper into the national and international context to highlight how these three...

... interrupting “a capitalist system.” On a national scale, they taught each other how to influence the publishing industry and feminism in a practice of accountability to address racism in feminist movements. Painful moments of crisis at the bookstores interrupted efficient capital in productive ways...

...The Remains of the Regime This chapter is a conversation with Elena Lagadinova in 2010. Lagadinova was the young female partisan fighting in Bulgaria during World War II who went on to become a genetic scientist and the president of the Committee of the Bulgarian Women’s Movement for twenty...

... The introduction sets out the book’s core argument. It situates this within existing critical approaches to human rights, showing how these hinge on the question of the human as the subject of rights, a subject shaped in relation to capitalism, colonialism, and the legal categories...

... disparate, historically specific sites: that while both have been judged to be failed social movements, their epistolary archives reveal unorthodoxly successful, quotidian efforts to speculate upon the meaning of freedom in a global frame; that letters function as the generic means by which black settlers...

... The epilogue considers what the political, corporate, and activist responses to the coronavirus pandemic reveal about the innovation/reproduction binary. Corporations are looking to capitalize on this moment. For example, the company CareRev is positioning its digital platform—which uses an Uber...

.... Beyond the hyperprofessionalization of higher education, a new academic habitus can play a crucial role in cocreating a radical democratic habitus capable of powerfully resisting and providing alternatives to neoliberal capitalism that is destroying democracy, planetary ecology, and higher education...

... Chapter 3 advances a reading of global sex work as an inventive appropriation of liberal economic citizenship that utilizes calculated abjection of female bodies to procure a living wage in the shadows of capital. It first identifies a postindustrial formation of “antitrafficking assemblages...

... Despite popular perception, racial capitalism and indentured labor fail to create a neatly closed or coherent system. Rio’s portside areas have been at the center of privately led renovation projects since 2011. Paralleling these efforts, Afro-Brazilian memorialization processes involving...

... suggests that the East offers important lessons regarding how liberalism prefigures fascist possibility. In compiling a genealogy of Romanian populist protest movements that have seen anticapitalist politics get co-opted by the anticommunist right, it charts the increasingly cramped space from which...

... and ecological worlds went to war. The haunting specter of capital joined the fray—animating the movements of cattle, grasses with animal rhizomes, rice seeds, and flighty ducks. Amid this warfare, the fringe-toed foam frog was just one tenacious parasite, a noisy agent eating at the table of another, which...

..., often incompatible styles of living. If considered as the current metamorphosis of class struggle, these dispersed movements, these always potentially diverse forms of pretiosity, are anchored in webs of relations that capitalism can never capitalize. social movements; worlding; Pierre Clastres...

... with globalization. This same nexus preoccupied the Marxists of Operaia, or workerist movement, who were retheorizing deskilled work as a form of labor far from democratic, structured in the interest of maximizing profits, and always on the side of capital against labor. Manzoni marks the Marxist Operaia turn...

... controversial proposal to build the world's largest urban forest in the center of the city. It contrasts the aspirations of Hantz Farms with those of a Black radical farming project called Feedom Freedom, which exemplifies a broader movement in Detroit to respond to late capitalism and political abandonment...