Re-enchanting the World
Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Drawing on rich historical research, Silvia Federici maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the “new enclosures” at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation. Considering the commons from a feminist perspective, this collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both our economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions capital has planted in the body of the world proletariat. Federici is clear that the commons should not be understood as happy islands in a sea of exploitative relations but rather autonomous spaces from which to challenge the existing capitalist organization of life and labour.
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Praise
Silvia Federici’s theoretical capacity to articulate the plurality that fuels the contemporary movement of women in struggle provides a true toolbox for building bridges between different features and different people.
– Massimo De Angelis, professor of political economy, University of East London
Silvia Federici’s work embodies an energy that urges us to rejuvenate struggles against all types of exploitation and, precisely for that reason, her work produces a common: a common sense of the dissidence that creates a community in struggle.
– Maria Mies, coauthor of Ecofeminism
Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface | Peter Linebaugh |
| Introduction | |
| Interview with Silvia Federici | Commons Will become Increasingly Important for Feminists Movements in Europe |
| Part 1 | On the New Enclosures |
| Introduction to the New Enclosures | |
| The Debt Crisis, Africa, and the New Enclosures | |
| On Primitive Accumulation, Globalization, and Reproduction | |
| China: Breaking the Rice Bowl | |
| From Commoning to Debt: Financialization, Microcredit, and the Changing Architecture of Capital Accumulation | |
| Part 2 | On the Commons |
| Feminism and the Politics of the Commons | |
| Women, Land Struggle and the Reconstruction of the Commons | |
| Commons Beyond and Against Capitalism | |
| Women Commoning the City: From Survival to Resistance and Reclamation | |
| Marxism, Feminism, and the Commons | |
| Beneath the University, the Commons | |
| From Crisis to Commons: Reproductive Work, Affective Labor, and Technology in the Transformation of Everyday Life | |
| Re-enchanting the World: Technology and the Reconstruction of the Commons | |
| Notes | |
| References | |
| Index |
