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Capital & Class, 2024

This interview with Frigga Haug explores the thirteen thesis which were developed collectively du... more This interview with Frigga Haug explores the thirteen thesis which were developed collectively during three different international conferences and Frigga Haug authored the 13 theses. The goal was to make the feminist movement sustainable with a Marxist spirit and to bring Marxism to life. The theses are a work in progress, a framework for the foundation of a Marxist-feminist international, they are sustainable enough for them to stand the test through the specific changed conditions of our historically determined spaces of movement, and flexible enough that they would not harden into chains.

Environment and Planning F, 2024

SpaceX's launch site on the US-Mexico border, in the Rio Grande Valley, is an ideal example of th... more SpaceX's launch site on the US-Mexico border, in the Rio Grande Valley, is an ideal example of the interconnected relationship between racial capitalism and authoritarian neoliberalism, the neoliberal expropriation of spaces and communities, and the tapestries of resistance weaved against these processes. The privatisation of space exploration is an illustration of the development of authoritarian modes of governance that are designed to facilitate such expropriation of spaces and communities. In the case considered in this article, these processes are directly related to the development of racial capitalism on the US-Mexico border. This article places the focus on how racial authoritarian neoliberalism is a response to capitalism's inability to successfully impose a hegemonic project.

Capital & Class, 2024

The fourth international Marxist feminist conference was the most international and best attended... more The fourth international Marxist feminist conference was the most international and best attended with around 700 participants, including Silvia Federici, Nancy Fraser, Tithi Bhattacharya, Lorena Cabnal, Ochy Curiel, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Elsa Dorlin, Jules Falquet, and Frigga Haug. The main themes of the panels established continuity with the previous conferences, from debates on intersectionality which overlap in various fields with practical and theoretical issues such as value, the state, law, care, production, and social reproduction to those that were closely linked to the thinking of new organizations and repertoires of struggle. This Special Issue is based on the plenary titled: the Thirteen Theses of Marxist Feminism. Frigga Haug, the author of The Thirteen Theses, considers
all of them in her opening interview. The most widely debated theses by the Special Issue contributors are Theses I, II, and III on relations of production and the production of the means of life followed by theses from V to VIII which deal with intersectionality and how to study race, class and gender, the role of labor movement in the process of emancipation, and the issue of primary and secondary contradictions which is closely related to the development of an effective political emancipatory subject. The Special Issue closes with an interview with the philosopher Nancy Fraser on the three faces of labor.

Global Political Economy

Key messages • Global Political Economy is the much-anticipated journal within the discipline of ... more Key messages • Global Political Economy is the much-anticipated journal within the discipline of Global Political Economy, with an explicit intention of cross-disciplinarity. • We are committed to doing things differently, to running our journal in democratic, inclusive and respectful ways. • We must focus our analyses of capitalism beyond the confines of Eurocentric, Whitecentric and malecentric lenses.

Crisis in the Eurozone Periphery, 2018

Spain’s economic crisis became a political crisis from 2011, when protest movements erupted in re... more Spain’s economic crisis became a political crisis from 2011, when protest movements erupted in response to the direct effects of the former and the austerity regime that followed. However, this chapter suggests that the particularities of developments from 2011 are explicable not simply with reference to the proximate economic crisis but require an examination of Spain’s broader transition from dictatorship from the 1970s and its Europeanisation thereafter. Prioritising stability, that transition was built upon the marginalisation or incorporation of non-mainstream groups and the formation of a narrow two-party system. It is against this backdrop that this chapter traces post-2011 events: the emergence of the ‘indignados’ movement, the growth of separatism in Catalonia and the institutional challenges to the status quo at both local and national levels.

Asymmetric Crisis in Europe and Possible Futures, 2015

Global Political Economy, 2022

While there has been a turn towards incorporating examples of dissent, resistance and alternative... more While there has been a turn towards incorporating examples of dissent, resistance and alternatives in the Global Political Economy literature, this article claims that there is still a considerable absence of analysis of dissent in and against the global political economy. The authors identify four frustrations (which can be easily turned into suggestions). First, that resistance, dissent and alternatives, continue to be marginal to most attempts at understanding the global political economy. Second, when resistance and dissent are considered, often they are presented as discrete episodes of ‘protest’. The third ‘frustration’ points towards the types of questions the literature tends to ask of instances of resistance: why resist, and with what effect? This directly connects with the fourth frustration: effect is often seen narrowly, simply as ‘impact’. The discussion of these frustrations concludes that dissent and resistance are ultimately central to the configurations of actors, i...

Global Political Economy, 2022

• Global Political Economy is the much-anticipated journal within the discipline of Global Polit... more • Global Political Economy is the much-anticipated journal within the discipline of Global Political Economy, with an explicit intention of cross-disciplinarity. • We are committed to doing things differently, to running our journal in democratic, inclusive and respectful ways. • We must focus our analyses of capitalism beyond the confines of Eurocentric, Whitecentric and malecentric lenses.

Critical Public Health, 2021

ABSTRACT Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis that started in 2007/8, austerity meas... more ABSTRACT Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis that started in 2007/8, austerity measures have been promoted in many European countries. Frequently justified as a form of crisis-management, these measures have been used to further privatise and deregulate welfare systems, as well as to reinforce the isolation of certain decision-making arenas from democratic processes. At the same time, they have also generated new strategic opportunities for resistance to different forms of anti-austerity disruptive agency. The paper analyses the rescaling strategies implemented in public health services in Spain and the UK during the current economic crisis, and contributes to the understanding of the scalar dynamics and strategies of two social struggles against the privatisation of hospitals and health centres in these two contexts: Marea Blanca (White Tide) in Madrid and Keep Our NHS Public in Greater Manchester. It argues that social movements are more successful when they exploit scale shifts to transform institutions into centres of resistance.

Critical Public Health

Comparative European Politics, 2016

Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern yo... more Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern your use of this document. When citing, please reference the published version. Take down policy While the University of Birmingham exercises care and attention in making items available there are rare occasions when an item has been uploaded in error or has been deemed to be commercially or otherwise sensitive.

New Political Economy, 2015

Central to much of the critical political economy (CPE) literature is a declared focus on emancip... more Central to much of the critical political economy (CPE) literature is a declared focus on emancipation. Yet, rather than highlight sources and instances of activity that might result in emancipatory outcomes, much of the CPE literature focuses on relations of domination and the way in which these are sustained and (re)produced. In contrast, and drawing on 'minoritarian' strands of CPE, we argue that an emancipation-oriented approach needs to focus upon the ways in which processes of domination are contested, disrupted, and as a result remain incomplete. In doing so, we present an analysis of the European political and economic crisis that contrasts starkly with prevailing accounts. Whilst many observers have considered the European crisis in terms that signal the death knell of labour's prolonged post-1970s defeat, the paper instead renders visible the ongoing disruptive effects of the European populace's obstinate, subversive and creative capacity to escape those attempts to achieve domination and subjugation which existing accounts tend to identify.

Global Labour Journal, 2014

Basic Income Studies, 2007

... BIEN Congress, has five sections that introduce the following, respectively: Basic Income (BI... more ... BIEN Congress, has five sections that introduce the following, respectively: Basic Income (BI) as ... Standing defends BI against the increasing preference for paternalism demonstrated by governments ... Atkinson looks at existing social-security models and explores how they could ...

Abstract: This paper discusses the implications that the free trading of labour can have on worke... more Abstract: This paper discusses the implications that the free trading of labour can have on workers solidarity. The idea of the free trading of labour is introduced as a way to explore the implications of new modes of neoliberal governance within the EU which are increasingly focusing on the free trading of services, therefore, having direct implications on how labour is understood and, more importantly, regulated. To do so, it focuses on European dockworkers and their struggle during the 2000s against the two EU directives designed to liberalise port services (EU directives on Market Access to Port Services). Considering that European dockworkers have, so far, successfully challenged the liberalising attempts of the Commission, the paper contributes to our understanding of successful transnational trade union action.

Capital & Class, 2024

Environment and Planning F, 2024

Capital & Class, 2024

Global Political Economy

Crisis in the Eurozone Periphery, 2018

Asymmetric Crisis in Europe and Possible Futures, 2015

Global Political Economy, 2022

Critical Public Health, 2021

Critical Public Health

Comparative European Politics, 2016

New Political Economy, 2015

Global Labour Journal, 2014

Basic Income Studies, 2007

Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has foc... more Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period are being continuously unravelled. Whilst there are many reasons to lament the trajectory of change within Europe’s political economy, there are also important developments, trends and processes which have acted to obstruct, hinder and present alternatives to this perceived trajectory of declining social solidarity. These alternatives have tended to be obscured from view, in part as a result of the conceptual approaches adopted within the literature.

Drawing from examples across the EU, this book presents an alternative narrative and explanation for the development of Europe’s political economy and crisis, emphasising the agency of what are typically considered subordinate (and passive) actors. By highlighting patterns of resistance, disobedience and disruption it makes a significant contribution to a literature that has otherwise been more concerned to understand patterns of heightened domination, exploitation, inequality and neoliberal consolidation. It will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

El autoritarismo europeo en jaque. Organización de base, acción colectiva y democracia participativa durante la crisis de la eurozona, 2018

Las instituciones y los Gobiernos de la UE respondieron a la crisis de la eurozona con una mezcla... more Las instituciones y los Gobiernos de la UE respondieron a la crisis de la eurozona con una mezcla de austeridad y autoritarismo que exacerbó la precariedad y menoscabó la democracia liberal. Sin embargo, un estudio de los movimientos sociales pone de manifiesto que esta despolitización tecnocrática solo triunfó en parte, ya que la exclusión creciente de las personas de los espacios de toma democrática de decisiones también generó nuevas formas de organización que han abierto posibles vías para un cambio social radical.

Critical Public Health, 2020

Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis that started in 2007/8, austerity measures have... more Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis that started in 2007/8,
austerity measures have been promoted in many European countries.
Frequently justified as a form of crisis-management, these measures have been used to further privatise and deregulate welfare systems, as well as to reinforce the isolation of certain decision-making arenas from democratic processes. At the same time, they have also generated new strategic opportunities for resistance to different forms of anti-austerity disruptive agency. The paper analyses the rescaling strategies implemented in public health services in Spain and the UK during the current economic crisis, and contributes to the understanding of the scalar dynamics and strategies of two social struggles against the privatisation of hospitals and health centres in these two contexts: Marea Blanca (White Tide) in Madrid and Keep Our NHS Public in Greater Manchester. It argues that social movements are more successful when they exploit scale shifts to transform institutions into centres of resistance.

Globalizations, 2020

The anti-austerity movement that emerged in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis and 2010 ... more The anti-austerity movement that emerged in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis and 2010 Eurozone crisis, and which forms part of the ‘age of austerity’ that came after those crises, was underpinned by a set of ideas and practices that we refer to here as ‘pragmatic prefigurativism’. Whilst the anti-austerity movements typically rejected formal ideologies such as Marxism and anarchism, nevertheless pragmatic prefigurativism can be understood as a ‘left convergence’ of sorts. The paper explores the features of this pragmatic prefigurativism, comparing the anti-austerity movements in the UK and Spain. In particular, we note the role of unresponsive institutions of democracy in prompting the move towards pragmatic prefigurativism, the adoption of techniques of direct democracy and direct action as the means through which to express a voice and to refuse austerity, and the pragmatic nature of the subsequent (re)turn to political institutions when this became a possibility.

Globalizations, 2020