Marx in the Field (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mezzadri, Alessandra

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Produktbeschreibung

Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of the Marxian method to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx 'to the field' in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis. Crucially, many of the contributions expand the scope of Marxian analysis by combining its insights with those of other intellectual traditions, including radical feminisms, critical realism and postcolonial studies. The book defines the possibilities and challenges of fieldwork guided by Marxian analysis, including those emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The collection takes a global approach to the study of development and of contemporary capitalism. While some essays focus on themes and geographical areas of long-term concern for international development - like informal or rural poverty and work across South Asia, Southern and West Africa, or South America - others focus instead on actors benefitting from the development process - like regional exporters, larger farmers, and traders - or on unequal socio-economic outcomes across richer and emerging economies and regions - including Gulf countries, North America, Southern Europe, or Post-Soviet Central and Eastern Europe. Some essays explore global processes cutting across the world economy, connecting multiple regions, actors and inequalities.

While some of the contributions focus on classic Marxian tropes in the study of contemporary capitalism - like class, labour and working conditions, agrarian change, or global commodity chains and prices - others aim at demonstrating the relevance of the Marxian method beyond its traditional boundaries - for instance, for exploring the interplays between food, nutrition and poverty; the links between social reproduction, gender and homework; the features of migration and refugees regimes, tribal chieftaincy structures or prison labour; or the dynamics structuring global surrogacy. Overall, through the analysis of an extremely varied set of concrete settings and cases, this book illustrates the extraordinary insights we can gain by bringing Marx in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785274503
• Artikelnr.: 63604256

Autorenporträt

Alessandra Mezzadri is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS. She is the author of The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments 'Made in India'.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction: Marx's
Field as Our Global Present, Alessandra Mezzadri; Chapter Two Into the
Field with Marx: Some Observations on Researching Class, Henry Bernstein;
Chapter Three Marx's Merchants' Capital: Researching Agrarian Markets in
Contemporary India, Barbara Harriss-White; Chapter Four The Ties That
Divide: Marx's Fractions of Capital and Class Analysis in/ for the Global
South, Muhammad Ali Jan; Chapter Five Marx in the Sweatshop: Exploitation
and Social Reproduction in a Garment Factory Called India, Alessandra
Mezzadri; Chapter Six Thinking about Capital and Class in the Gulf Arab
States, Adam Hanieh; Chapter Seven Marx on the Bourse: Coffee and the
Intersecting/Integrated Circuits of Capital, Susan Newman; Chapter Eight
Learning Marx by Doing: Class Analysis in an Emerging Zone of Global
Horticulture, Benjamin Selwyn; Chapter Nine Understanding Labour Relations
and Struggles in India through Marx's Method, Satoshi Miyamura; Chapter Ten
Investigating Class Relations in Rural South Africa: Marx's 'Rich Totality
of Many Determinations', Farai Mtero, Brittany Bunce, Ben Cousins, Alex
Dubb and Donna Hornby; Chapter Eleven From Marx's 'Double Freedom' to
'Degrees of Unfreedom': Methodological Insights from the Study of
Uzbekistan's Agrarian Labour, Lorena Lombardozzi; Chapter Twelve The Labour
Process and Health through the Lens of Marx's Historical Materialism, Tania
Toffanin; Chapter Thirteen Marx and the Poor's Nourishment: Diets in
Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, Sara Stevano; Chapter Fourteen Marx In
Utero: A Workers' Inquiry of the In/Visible Labours of Reproduction in the
Surrogacy Industry, Sigrid Vertommen; Chapter Fifteen Marx, the Chief, the
Prisoner and the Refugee, Gavin Capps, Genevieve LeBaron and Paolo Novak in
Conversation with Alessandra Mezzadri; Chapter Sixteen Postcolonial Marxism
and the 'Cyber-Field' in COVID Times: On Labour Becoming 'Working Class',
Subir Sinha; Notes on Contributors; Index.