Re-enchanting the World

Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this edited collection of her work spanning more than 20 years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues...

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Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this edited collection of her work spanning more than 20 years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues and debates in contemporary thinking on this subject. Drawing on rich historical research, she maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the "new enclosures" at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation. Considering the commons from a feminist perspective, this collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both our economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions capital has planted in the body of the world proletariat. Federici is clear that the commons should not be understood as happy islands in a sea of exploitative relations but rather autonomous spaces from which to challenge the existing capitalist organization of life and labor.

Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xiii
Introduction 1
Part 1 On the New Enclosures
Introduction to Part One 13
On Primitive Accumulation, Globalization, and Reproduction 15
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Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xiii
Introduction 1
Part 1 On the New Enclosures
Introduction to Part One 13
On Primitive Accumulation, Globalization, and Reproduction 15
Introduction to the New Enclosures 26
The Debt Crisis, Africa, and the New Enclosures 34
China: Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl 51
From Commoning to Debt: Financialization, Microcredit, and the Changing Architecture of Capital Accumulation 60
Part 2 On the Commons
Introduction to Part Two 77
Beneath the United States, the Commons 78
Commons against and beyond Capitalism 85
The University: A Knowledge Common? 99
Feminism and the Politics of the Commons in an Era of Primitive Accumulation 102
Women's Struggles for Land in Africa and the Reconstruction of the Commons 116
Women's Struggles for Land and the Common Good in Latin America 134
Marxism, Feminism, and the Commons 151
From Crisis to Commons: Reproductive Work, Affective Labor and Technology, and the Transformation of Everyday Life 175
Re-enchanting the World: Technology, the Body, and the Construction of the Commons 188
Bibliography 198
About the Authors 217
Index 219
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