“The” End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy ; with a New IntroductionWhy does the future (not to mention the present) seem to offer no hope of escape from capitalism? Ironically, the author argues, it is not the economic discourse of the right but primarily the socialist and Marxist traditions that have constituted capitalism as large, powerful, active, expansive, penetrating, systematic, self-reproducing, dynamic, victorious, and capable of conferring identity and meaning. What this has meant for left politics is the continual deferral of anticapitalist projects of social transformation and noncapitalist initiatives of economic innovation, since these presumably would have little chance of success in the face of a predominantly or exclusively capitalist economy. In this book J. K. Gibson-Graham explores the possibility of more enlivening modes of economic thought and action, outside and beyond the theory and practice of capitalist reproduction. |
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Crucial to understanding the shifting place of capitalism in our shockingly non-capitalist society.
Contents
Chapter | 18 |
An Encounter in Contradiction | 24 |
How Do We Get Out of This Capitalist Place? | 72 |
The Economy Stupid Industrial Policy Discourse | 92 |
Chapter 6 | 120 |
Toward a New Class Politics of Distribution | 174 |
Chapter 9 | 206 |
Ghosts on a Blackboard | 238 |
Chapter 11 | 251 |
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Page xvii - The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state, and from the state's institutions, but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.
Page xvi - ... double bind', which is the simultaneous individualization and totalization of modern power structures. The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state, and from the state's institutions, but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state.
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| Title | “The” End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy ; with a New Introduction |
| Author | J. K. Gibson-Graham |
| Publisher | U of Minnesota Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 1452908842, 9781452908847 |
| Length | 299 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Free Enterprise Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory |
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