From primitive accumulation to entangled accumulation: Decentring Marxist Theory of capitalist expansion:
01 May 2020-European Journal of Social Theory (SAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, England)-Vol. 23, Iss: 2, pp 146-164
TL;DR: In the last few decades, the concept of primitive accumulation (ursprungliche Akkumulation) introduced by Karl Marx and expanded by Rosa Luxemburg has been revived and improved as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: During the last few decades, the concept of primitive accumulation (ursprungliche Akkumulation) introduced by Karl Marx and expanded by Rosa Luxemburg has been revived and improved. Accordingly, sc...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the experience of walking through a department store and being amazed at the many different articles we see there, one counter after another filled with this, that, and the other thing-some useful, some of little or no use.
Abstract: We've all had the experience at some time or other of walking through a department store and being amazed at the many different articles we see there. One counter after another filled with this, that, and the other thing-some useful, some of little or no use. Almost every day a new gadget is advertised, electric blankets, or hats that look like chimneys, or a special kind of vitamin tablets. A common reaction of people as they look in shop windows is, "What will they think of next?"This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the global commodity circuits for maize and tobacco in Zimbabwe, in the context of a reconfigured agrarian economy and COVID-19 induced shocks.
Abstract: This paper analyses the global commodity circuits – value chains – for maize and tobacco in Zimbabwe, in the context of a reconfigured agrarian economy and COVID-19 induced shocks. The study focuses on the political economy dynamics of agricultural commodity circuits to reveal how they can contribute to understanding the drivers and constraints of agricultural commercialisation in Zimbabwe. This paper traces the circuits of maize and tobacco, the two major crops for food security and foreign currency earnings in Zimbabwe.
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...It is hypothesised that these challenges and risks sustain entangled accumulation (Gonçalves and Costa 2020) in which surplus value extraction is sustained and reconfigure political power dynamics along the commodity circuits, impacting on agricultural commercialisation in Zimbabwe....
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...This disarticulation of the primary and secondary processes of production and circulation leads to what Gonçalves and Costa (2020) describe as entangled accumulation....
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...This expropriation may be supported through political regulatory interventions (Gonçalves and Costa 2020), such as the restrictions on movement imposed under the COVID-19 pandemic....
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TL;DR: The Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) is a multi-stakeholder organization that has set as its aim to improve the environmental, social and economic conditions of soy production.
Abstract: The Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) is a multi-stakeholder organization that has set as its aim to improve the environmental, social and economic conditions of soy production. To do so, it re...
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...…this literature has reflected on the process through which certifications seek to commodify intangible qualities or attributes – such as ‘sustainable,’ ‘ethical,’ ‘responsible,’ etc. – of agri-food products (e.g. Renard 2005, Guthman 2007, Raynolds et al. 2007, Allaire 2012, Silva-Castañeda 2012)....
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that the worst impacts of extractivism and pollution are borne by societies and ecosystems in the world's economic periphery and contribute to an acceleration of planetary ecocide.
Abstract: Only recently have scholars of criminology begun to examine a wider spectrum of the effects of digital technologies beyond ‘cybercrime’ to include human rights, privacy, data extractivism and surveillance. Such accounts, however, remain anthropocentric and capitalocentric. They do not fully consider the environmental impacts caused by the manufacture, consumption, use and disposal of digital technologies under conditions of ecologically unequal exchange. The worst impacts of extractivism and pollution are borne by societies and ecosystems in the world’s economic periphery and contribute to an acceleration of planetary ecocide. Three examples illustrate our argument: (1) deep-sea mining of metals and minerals; (2) the planned obsolescence of digital devices while limiting the right to repair; and (3) the disposal of e-waste. Acknowledging the urgent need to reorient the trajectory of technology innovation towards more-than-human futures, we advance some ideas from the field of design research—that is, the field of scholarly inquiry into design practices—on how to decouple technological progress from neoliberal economic growth. We venture outside criminology and offer a glimpse into how design researchers have recently begun a similar reflective engagement with post-anthropocentric critiques, which can inspire new directions for research across digital and green criminology.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyze how different forms of inequalities including social marginalization, cultural repression, and ecological inequalities have led to discontent among the Mapuche and identify the transnational forestry industry as a major driver of conflict and discuss the limits of Chile's extractivist model.
Abstract: ABSTRACT The Mapuche movement is among the most important social movements in post-dictatorship Chile. Since the 1990s, the Mapuche struggle has increasingly turned into a violent conflict over land usage and environmental degradation. By referring to theories of global capitalism and political ecology, we show how forestry extractivism has shaped the Mapuche struggle. Based on extensive fieldwork in the region of La Araucanía, we analyze how different forms of inequalities including social marginalization, cultural repression, and ecological inequalities have led to discontent. In reaction to this multi-dimensional discontent, the Mapuche have developed indigenous forms of ‘collective bargaining by riot’ by attacking the local extractivist network. We identify the transnational forestry industry as a major driver of conflict and discuss the limits of Chile’s extractivist model.
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TL;DR: In recent years, urban governance has become increasingly preoccupied with the exploration of new ways in which to foster and encourage local development and employment growth as mentioned in this paper, and urban entrepreneurship has become a hot topic.
Abstract: In recent years, urban governance has become increasingly preoccupied with the exploration of new ways in which to foster and encourage local development and employment growth. Such an entrepreneur...
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the inability to accumulate through expanded reproduction on a sustained basis has been paralleled by a rise in attempts to accumulate by dispossession, which is the hallmark of what some like to call 'the new imperialism' is about.
Abstract: Global capitalism has experienced a chronic and enduring problem of overaccumulation since the 1970s. I interpret the volatility of international capitalism during these years, however, as a series of temporary spatio-temporal fixes that failed even in the medium run to deal with problems of overaccumulation. It was, as Peter Gowan argues, through the orchestration of such volatility that the United States sought to preserve its hegemonic position within global capitalism. The recent apparent shift towards an open imperialism backed by military force on the part of the US may then be seen as a sign of the weakening of that hegemony before the serious threat of recession and widespread devaluation at home, as opposed to the various bouts of devaluation formerly inflicted elsewhere (Latin America in the 1980s and early 1990s, and, even more seriously, the crisis that consumed East and South-East Asia in 1997 and then engulfed Russia and much of Latin America). But I also want to argue that the inability to accumulate through expanded reproduction on a sustained basis has been paralleled by a rise in attempts to accumulate by dispossession. This, I then conclude, is the hallmark of what some like to call ' the new imperialism' is about.
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...It is thus a ‘vulture capitalism’ that recovers the predatory practices and political violence of primitive accumulation, as described by Marx (Harvey, 2004: 72)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the experience of walking through a department store and being amazed at the many different articles we see there, one counter after another filled with this, that, and the other thing-some useful, some of little or no use.
Abstract: We've all had the experience at some time or other of walking through a department store and being amazed at the many different articles we see there. One counter after another filled with this, that, and the other thing-some useful, some of little or no use. Almost every day a new gadget is advertised, electric blankets, or hats that look like chimneys, or a special kind of vitamin tablets. A common reaction of people as they look in shop windows is, "What will they think of next?"This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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...When capitalist production is already established, Marx (1906 [1867]: 834) affirms that expropriation does not cease but is reproduced on an ever-increasing scale, according to specific forms of concentration of capital and private property....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how neoliberalization has swept across the world like a vast tidal wave of institutional reform and discursive adjustment, entailing much destruction of prior institutional frameworks and pow...
Abstract: Neoliberalization has swept across the world like a vast tidal wave of institutional reform and discursive adjustment, entailing much destruction, not only of prior institutional frameworks and pow...
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...In the same way, the recurring manipulation in transactions based on stock values is a mechanism which, in the process of financialization, has ‘brought immense wealth to a few at the expense of the many’ (Harvey, 2006: 154)....
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TL;DR: Boyer and Yves Sailard's "Theorie de la Regulation" introduced the Francophone public to one of the most important new currents in social science of the past half-century as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Robert Boyer and Yves Sailard's "Theorie de la Regulation" introduced the Francophone public to one of the most important new currents in social science of the past half-century. This long-awaited translation will help broaden its impact still further. "Regulation" "Theory" focuses on the structural features of a given model and has helped enliven the examination of core economic concepts.
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...…accumulation, exploitation, expropriation, primitive accumulation Various critical studies on capitalism, including the theory of regulation (Boyer and Saillard, 2005) and of crisis (Harvey, 2005), all have a common thread: they recognize a continuous driving process behind capitalist…...
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