Global & Finance Capitalism and Women

Abstract

Relations of production and reproduction under global capitalism play out in different, sometimes even contradictory, ways depending on geographical location and national context. The panel brings together five individual papers, each of which addresses global capitalism, its current reconfigurations, and their gendered, classed, and racialized effects. These developments include the commercialization of fisheries in Yemen backed by international organizations; the growing precarization of female labor in the context of AI and Big Tech companies; and the popularization of financial self-help books for women in the Global North as a form of neoliberal self-governance under a feminist guise. The papers also show that global capitalism encounters resistance, as in the case of the anti-work trend of “tangping” (“lying flat”) among young people in China, and that macroeconomic concepts and metaphors that guide our everyday understanding of relations of (re)production can—and should—be decolonized. Together, the papers provide a global perspective on current developments and challenges of global capitalism, as well as new possibilities.

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Financial feminism	View Paper Details
Beyond Anti-Work: Tangping and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in China	View Paper Details
Feminist Economic Practices and the Negotiation of Capitalism	View Paper Details
Decolonising Economic Metaphors: Ethnographic Vernacular Reimagination of Economic Concepts	View Paper Details
Algorithms of Patriarchy: How AI Reinforces the Precarization of Women’s Work	View Paper Details