Nuevo libro: Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (Nancy Fraser)

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Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

by Nancy Fraser

Charts the history of women's liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism.

Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action.

During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminism’s subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing a revival in the movement, Fraser argues for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism able to address the global economic crisis. Feminism can be a force working in concert with other egalitarian movements in the struggle to bring the economy under democratic control, while building on the visionary potential of the earlier waves of women’s liberation. This powerful new account is set to become a landmark of feminist thought.

En Oxford: Understanding Neoliberal Legality (CfP)

CfP: Understanding Neoliberal Legality | Workshop, Oxford University, 21 June 

Workshop: Perspectives on the Use of Law By, For, and Against the Neoliberal Project

Whilst neo­lib­eral insti­tu­tional and eco­nomic reforms have attrac­ted sub­stan­tial schol­arly atten­tion in recent dec­ades, the role of law in the neo­lib­eral story has been rel­at­ively neg­lected. Yet law, broadly under­stood, fea­tures in vari­ous prom­in­ent aspects of the content, form, and mode of the neo­lib­eral pro­ject and of efforts to res­ist it. This day-​long work­shop at the Uni­ver­sity of Oxford will draw together estab­lished and emer­ging schol­ars research­ing vari­ous aspects of the role of law in the con­struc­tion and con­test­a­tion of neoliberalism.

The ques­tions and dilem­mas to be inter­rog­ated in the workshop’s dis­cus­sions include the following:

• In what ways has neo­lib­eral restruc­tur­ing shaped and been shaped by estab­lished legis­lat­ive, judi­cial, and penal pro­cesses?
• How is law engaged by the neo­lib­eral state in its rela­tions with dis­sent?
• To what extent have the sites at which social change can be pur­sued been altered by neo­lib­eral policy and ideo­logy, or remained the same?
• What are the pos­sib­il­it­ies and chal­lenges facing polit­ical groups or move­ments that choose to engage the law in neo­lib­eral times? What about those that choose to break the law?
• How has the neo­lib­eral period cla­ri­fied or com­plic­ated our under­stand­ing of the nature of law and of lib­eral legality?

The range of schol­ar­ship address­ing aspects of these import­ant ques­tions at the nexus of neo­lib­er­al­ism and leg­al­ity spans a panoply of the­or­et­ical and empir­ical ana­lysis of the ways in which law is broken, upheld, and sub­ver­ted by, for, and against the neo­lib­eral pro­ject in the UK and abroad. Potential paper top­ics reflect­ing this diversity include, but are not lim­ited to, the fol­low­ing themes:

• the­or­isa­tions of social move­ment strategy with respect to law
• crim­in­al­isa­tion of dis­sent
• cri­tiques and pos­sib­il­it­ies of human rights act­iv­ism
• cur­rent left gov­ern­ments as law­makers
• the­or­et­ical inter­ven­tions on the nature of (neo­lib­eral) law
• new con­sti­tu­tion­al­ism
• dis­cip­lin­ary logics of late cap­it­al­ism
• intensi­fy­ing impacts of power and priv­ilege on access to legal chan­nels
• law and order agenda
• crim­in­al­isa­tion of poverty
• state of excep­tion
• cur­rent trends in police repres­sion
• media rep­res­ent­a­tions of protest
• migra­tion and ‘illegal’ personhood

Inter­ested par­ti­cipants should send their name, insti­tu­tional affil­i­ation, and an abstract of a max­imum of 250 words to honor.​brabazon@​politics.​ox.​ac.​uk by 20 May, 2013. The work­shop intends to ini­ti­ate ongo­ing dia­logue and col­lab­or­a­tion, and it is hoped that selec­ted pro­ceed­ings from the work­shop will be pub­lished as a spe­cial issue or edited volume. Regrettably, we can­not cover the cost of travel or accom­mod­a­tion for par­ti­cipants, but we will provide a lunch and cof­fee break dur­ing the workshop.

From: Critical Legal Thinking