Capitalism in 'all Corners of the earth': luxemburg and globalisation

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 (94) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Helen Scott
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global System ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Marxist Tradition

Luxemburg has not been a prominent figure within postcolonial studies, but her legacy is of relevance for many areas within the field. Her work, in conversation with the broader Marxist tradition, is of great value to ongoing attempts to understand and challenge global capitalism. Luxemburg's emphasis on the centrality of colonial plunder and global dispossession to capitalist accumulation, and unflinching opposition to all forms of imperialism and oppression, offer counterpoints to the charge that Marxism is Eurocentric. Luxemburg understood capitalism to be an integrated global system, located dispossession as a central property of capitalist expansion, and articulated a strategy for emancipation based on international working-class solidarity. In the twenty-first century her work continues to provide insight not only in the realm of political economy, but also for the analysis of global cultures.

Slavery and the Trumpocene: It's Not the End of the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Claire Colebrook
Keyword(s):  
Living System ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Geological Period

There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and annihilation. Rather than saving the world, recognizing the Trumpocene demands that we think about destroying the barbarism that has marked the earth.

scholarly journals At Work in Meadowvale Village

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-254
Author(s):  
Thomas F. McIlwraith
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
First Century ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Vernacular Landscape

Ontario’s industrial and working-class history has deep roots in the water-powered mills and factories that lined scores of streams throughout the province. Each site drew its cluster of dwellings, general stores, church sanctuaries, travellers’ rests and more. Meadowvale village, founded in the 1830s on the Credit River in Mississauga, is one of these places, and, not simply by chance, it continues to display its mill village vernacular landscape generations after its industrial heyday has passed. Thanks to a community of energetic volunteers responding to opportunities provided by the Ontario Heritage Act (1974), plus a receptive civic administration, this gem of traditional Ontario has withstood suburbanization as it swept across the region. Meadowvale flourishes in the twenty-first century as a distinctive residential enclave in a huge sprawling city.

scholarly journals Revolutionary in Counter-Revolutionary Times: Elaborating Fanonian National Consciousness into the Twenty-First Century

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Anna Gordon
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Twenty First Century

One of the unique challenges of reading Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth) today is that while it is an irredeemably revolutionary text, we live in a counter-revolutionary moment or in a global context that has tried very hard to discredit even the possibility of revolution. Fanon’s text does not only narrate the effective undertaking of an anti-colonial struggle—of what is required for people to identify the actual causes of their alienation and unfreedom and together to will their elimination—it also outlines the various, often dialectical challenges of restructuring a society from the bottom up. Guiding and evident in the latter is the flourishing of what Fanon suggestively called national consciousness. Elaborating its meaning and ongoing usefulness is the focus of this essay.

Coda: theses on homelessness, public space, and urban resistance

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
Sean Parson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

In the Coda, the lessons and theoretical positions of the entire document are condensed into four short theses, which can start a conversation around the role and politics of a radical homeless urban politics within the context of the twenty-first-century capitalist political economy and the rise of Trumpism in the United States.

Melodrama Remediated

2014 ◽  
pp. 190-208
Author(s):  
Katherine C. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
Dion Boucicault ◽  
Market Practices ◽  
A New Species

This chapter reconsiders some tenets of Genette's insightful framework for analyzing paratexts, by examining the transformation of paratexts on one kind of published play—a cheaper, nineteenth-century, English-language “Acting Edition”—after remediation into digital form for new purposes: not for producing theatre, but for studying old drama. Invoking Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Dion Boucicault plays as examples of general patterns, the author first fill in gaps in the inventory of print paratexts, delineating a species of theatrical paratext different from the literary paratexts spotlighted by Genette, that, together with the publisher's commercial communications, referred away from the single author or drama and rendered the publication into a hybrid literary-practical commodity. Moving to the twenty-first century, the chapter touches briefly on the pre-digital academic publishing formats, print anthologies and facsimile microform, which involved paratextual and market practices variously inherited by digital successors. While acknowledging the diverse array of digitized playbooks, the chapter concentrates on the proprietary database Literature Online produced by the Chadwyck-Healey division of a conglomerate corporation ProQuest, couching the remediated play paratexts within shifts in global capitalism. These for-profit paratexts partly reveal their political economy basis in fusion with the ideologies of the academic market and the materiality of their medium, including a new species of partly visible protocols that the author calls actuating marks. Overall, the chapter uses old melodrama to open new views of the performances of paratexts across textual media and embedded in political economy.

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