Retheorising capitalism
Keywords:
economic systems, capitalism, criticism of capitalism, societal changeSynopsis
The climate catastrophe and transgression of planetary boundaries, together with the erosion of democracy and rise of oligarchy, have intensified demands for critical reflection on capitalism. This edited collection responds to these demands, featuring contributions from scholars across the social sciences disciplines and geographical contexts. The book explores ways to rethink and retheorise capitalism through theoretical, conceptual, and empirical contributions. Some contributions propose ways to reform capitalism, some emphasise the need to examine it as part of diverse more-than-capitalist economic arrangements, while others invite us to reflect on what might come after capitalism.
Embracing a pluralist approach, the book reflects the dynamism of capitalism and presents diverse theoretical approaches and methodologies. Retheorising, on the pages of this book, takes the form of reconceptualising, reimagining, representing, as well as repairing. From text-based analyses to visual collaging and pottery making, the chapters engage with capitalism in multifaceted ways and invite readers to also reflect on how we sense and experience socioeconomic formations through scholarly endeavours. Through its pluralist approach, the book urges readers to explore and trouble the multifaceted workings of capitalism and engage with the possibilities for its transformation or transgression.
Chapters
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PrologueCapitalism and the spirit of engaged pluralism
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IntroductionTroubling capitalism
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Reading regenerative vegetable farming for difference
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A proposal for a scatological global political economyOr, making sense of capitalism through a shit-smeared lens
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The capitalist’s apprenticeEmployment and the reproduction of capitalist culture
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Re-sensing economiesArtistic and embodied knowing for more-than-capitalist futures
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A future worth imaginingCollaging capitalism, expanding political imagination
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Postcapitalist translationsAn experiment with scissors, clippings, and glue
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Porous boundaries of resistanceTranslating an authoritarian-neoliberal university
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Resisting academic capitalism with a postcapitalist pedagogyHealthier universities through antihierarchy, communality, and lived alternatives
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Capitalism as colonialism as capitalism (and the alternatives)
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A theory of fragmentism
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(Re)Theorising heterodoxiesLabour in Islamic economic philosophy
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Financialised digitalisation, digitalised financialisationThe inseparability between technological domination and financial hegemony in contemporary capitalism
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Re-indigenising kuku (green-lipped mussel) economies in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
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DialogueStrings of retheorising capitalism
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May 22, 2025
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