Discussion
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Part of the Lecture
The Globalization of Women’s Work and New Forms of Violence Against Women /
Silvia Federici is a feminist activist and a renowned political theorist. In 1972, she co-founded the International Feminist Collective, which launched the campaign Wages for Housework internationally. Her previous books include Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004); Revolution at Point Zero (2012); Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women (forthcoming 2018); and Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Common (forthcoming 2018). She is professor emerita at Hofstra University, previously worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years, and co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa. Her work has demonstrated the oversight in Marxian theory of one of the fundamental features of capitalist accumulation: namely, the subjugation of women and women’s productive and reproductive labour. Federici is known for her focus on the struggle against capitalist globalization and, more recently, on developing a feminist theory of the commons.
Part of the Workshop
As Workers Leave the Factory, What’s Left Behind? /
This workshop is the third and final installment of the series ‘In Front of the Factory,’ which has focused on questions of work and the ways in which work/labour have been framed in past and contemporary forms of image-making. The workshop presents the research and conversations that accumulated through the series, including topics such as cinematic representations of women’s labour; the presence or absence of domestic and reproductive labour in visual media; the spatial and temporal dimensions of unemployment; the use of cinema for industrial knowledge production and nation-making; and the gendered and racial dimensions of labour in film and photography.
Programme
16:00 Introduction by Clio Nicastro
16:15-18:00 Workshop with Saima Akhtar
19:30 Keynote Silvia Federici: The Globalization of Women’s Work and New Forms of Violence Against Women
Introduction by Rosa Barotsi
Venue
ICI Berlin(Click for further documentation)
With
Saima AkhtarOrganized by
Rosa BarotsiClio Nicastro