Historical Materialism New York City
“Accumulation, Excess, and Childhood: Towards a Countertopography of Risk and Waste” / Cindi Katz
“The Shifting Spatial Requirements of Indigenous Dispossession in Canada: Primitive Accumulaltion in the Political Economy of White Settler Colonialism” /
Shiri Pasternak
“Land Enclosure, Micro-finance and Witch-hunting in Africa and India today” / Silvia Federici
Discussant: Werner Bonefeld
Discussion
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
“On The Woman Question” / Emma Heaney
“Queer Nations in the Imperialist Heartland” / Alan Sears
“Gender Performativity and Capital Performativity” / Cinzia Arruzza
Discussant: Kevin Floyd
Chair: Cathy Borck
Financial Crisis in the US
Chair: Francesca Manning
“Financialization: The Appropriations of Finance and the Restructuring of American Capitalism in Our Time” / William Tabb
“Recentering the Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis: The Past and Future of US Racial Inequality” / Gary Dymski
Discussion
Chair: FTC Manning
Book panel on Charles Post’s “The American Road to Capitalism,” published in 2011 as part of the Historical Materialism book series.
Charles Post
Discussant 1 / Sven Beckert
Discussant 2 / Vivek Chibber
*Note: the audio file for Vivek Chibber’s presentation was unfortunately recorded with extremely poor quality and was therefore unfit for uploading.
Discussion
Chair: John Clegg
Reification and temporality: What does it mean to have class consciousness today? / Miguel Vatter
Walter Benjamin’s “real state of emergency” / Massimiliano Tomba
Enlightened Catastrophism? Crises, Catastrophes and Political Life / Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo
Discussion
Chair : John Boy
Panel on the informal Indian economy, featuring presentations by Deepankar Basu (Growth, Distribution and Maoist movement in contemporary India) and Snehashish Bhattacharya (Non/Capital and Class: The Informal Economy in India), with discussion chaired by Francesca Manning.
Growth, Distribution and Maoist movement in contemporary India / Deepankar Basu
Non/Capital and Class: The Informal Economy in India / Snehashish Bhattacharya
Discussion