Numbers games, race, gender, power: primitive accumulation in the Black Metropolis

This book analyzes the criminal processes of homicides or attempted homicides of women in Goiânia during the period of 1970-1984. We observed the gender power relations in the capital of Goiás, a border region, a mixture of country life elements and discourses of modernity. Hence, through case reports of women who suffered attacks on their lives in a period of intense changes, such as the organization of feminist groups in Brazil and the world, political and economic repercussions of the construction of Brasília in Goiás and mass immigration to Goiânia, we have pursued to understand what it meant socially to "be a man" and "to be a woman" in this capital and what consequences were brought into their bodies, concerning life and death, protection and punishment.

Get full-text (via PubEx)

Susanna Rowson’s Barbary Captivity Narrative, or the Struggle for the Freedom of American Women in Algiers

The International Social Sciences Review ◽

10.37467/gka-socialrev.v1.1545 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 59-70

Author(s):

Sabrina Zerar

Keyword(s):

Power Relations ◽

Don Quixote ◽

Early American Republic ◽

Sentimental Literature ◽

Captivity Narrative ◽

American Women ◽

Early American ◽

Gender Power ◽

The Many

This research explores the feminist dimensions of Rowson's play, Slaves in Algiers or, a struggle for freedom (1794), from historicist and dialogical perspectives. More particularly, it looks at the play within the context of the politics of the early American republic to uncover how Rowson deploys the captivity of American sailors in Algiers (1785-1796) as a pretext to deconstrust the established gender power relations without hurting the sensibilities of her audience in its reference to the issue of black slavery. The research also unveils the many intertextual relationships that the play holds with the prevalent captivity culture of the day, sentimental literature, and more specifically with Cervantes’s Don Quixote.

Get full-text (via PubEx)

The Spirit of Capitalist and Primitive Accumulation

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1933436 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

jacek tittenbrun

Keyword(s):

Primitive Accumulation

Get full-text (via PubEx)

The Land Question in India

10.1093/oso/9780198792444.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anthony P. D’Costa ◽

Achin Chakraborty

Keyword(s):

The Political ◽

Private Capital ◽

Foreseeable Future ◽

Primitive Accumulation ◽

Neoliberal Capitalism ◽

Accumulation By Dispossession ◽

Land Question

Since the mid-2000s, proliferating “land wars” have exposed a contradiction between the land requirements of neoliberal capitalism and the political weight of farmers in India’s democracy. Whether, how, and for whom this contradiction is resolved constitutes India’s “new” land question. But this chapter argues that Marx’s “primitive accumulation” or Harvey’s “accumulation by dispossession” are inadequate to understand this conjuncture; and it advances the concept of “regimes of dispossession” as an alternative. It argues that from the early 1990s, India shifted from a regime that dispossessed land for state-led projects of material expansion to one that dispossesses land for private and decreasingly productive investments. This new regime, in which states have become mere land brokers for private capital, is arguably less “developmental” than its Nehruvian predecessor. The upshot is that India’s “land wars” are unlikely to dissipate any time soon; and the “land question” may be the largest contradiction for Indian capitalism for the foreseeable future.

Get full-text (via PubEx)

Violence against female health workers is tip of iceberg of gender power imbalances

BMJ ◽

10.1136/bmj.m3546 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. m3546

Author(s):

Asha S George ◽

Frances E McConville ◽

Shaheem de Vries ◽

Gustavo Nigenda ◽

Shabnum Sarfraz ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Workers ◽

Gender Power

Get full-text (via PubEx)

Gender Essentialism in Chinese Reality TV: A Case Study of You Are So Beautiful

Television & New Media ◽

10.1177/15274764211027234 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 152747642110272

Author(s):

Altman Yuzhu Peng

Keyword(s):

Power Relations ◽

Gender Politics ◽

Reality Tv ◽

Feminist Analysis ◽

Chinese Context ◽

Gender Essentialism ◽

Cultural Texts ◽

Gender Power ◽

Tv Production

This article provides a feminist analysis of Chinese reality TV, using the recent makeover show— You Are So Beautiful (你怎么这么好看) as a case study. I argue that the notion of gender essentialism is highlighted in the production of You Are So Beautiful, which distances the Chinese show from its original American format— Queer Eye. This phenomenon is indicative of how existing gender power relations influence the production of popular cultural texts in post-reform China, where capitalism and authoritarianism weave a tangled web. The outcomes of the research articulate the interplay between post-socialist gender politics and reality TV production in the Chinese context.

Get full-text (via PubEx)