Thursday 27 July, 5pm UK time / 6pm CEST
Madelaine Moore is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, working on eco-social policies. Her research pushes forward a political economy from below that engages with how people live and contest the multiple crises of contemporary capitalism. She is particularly interested in debates on primitive accumulation, social reproduction theory and labour, and what happens at the margins where different social relations and value systems interact. Empirically she focusses on water policy, rural political economy, and the social and political effects of environmental policy
Discussants:
Aliki Koutlou, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester
Gemma Gasseau, PhD candidate in Transnational Governance at the Scuola Normale Superiore and Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies
The book is available here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165985/
Abstract:
This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water. Presenting an incorporated comparison, it analyses the conjuncture following the 2007 financial crisis through the lens of water expropriation and resistance. This brings into view the way that transnational capital has made use of and been facilitated by the strategic selectivities of both the Irish and the Australian state, as well as the particular class formations that emerged in resistance to such water grabs. What is revealed is a crisis-ridden system that is marked by increasing reproductive unrest – class understood through the lens of social reproduction theory. As an important analysis of two significant water struggles, the book makes a compelling argument for integrating the study of social movements within critical political economy.
Critical Political Economy Research Network (RN06) 