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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"primitive accumulation"”.
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The price of milk: primitive accumulation and the New Zealand dairy industry 1814-2014
… this in part by making use of Marx’s theory of primitive accumulation in order to add a crucial, and until now overlooked, critical dimension to the history of the New Zealand dairy industry. This study begins by recounting the alienation of Māori land in the mid and late nineteenth century …
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The Rhetoric of Distance: Symbolic Capital and Women's Textual Practices in Seventeenth-Century England
… some crucial moments in the discourse of ""primitive accumulation,"" and accesses an alternative definition of ""community"" for the history of women writers."
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Global Extraction and Cultural Production: An Investigation of Forms of Extraction Through the Production of Artist-Video
… of labour; supported continued and on-going primitive accumulation – through the creation of global space/time; and promoted the intensification of both relative and absolute surplus value, through the mechanisation of reproduction and the blurring of work and life, through digital …
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The role of English-speaking churches in South Africa : a critical historical analysis and theological evaluation with special reference to the Church of the Province and the Methodist Church, 1903-1930
… stage of industrialisation follows in respect of primitive accumulation, gold mining, farming, alcohol and domestic workers. With that background to the 1903-1930 period clear, extensive archival material is used to describe and analyse the churches in relation to their political economic context. …
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Race, Nature, and Accumulation: A Decolonial World-Ecological Analysis of Indian Land Grabbing in the Gambella Province of Ethiopia
… food price crisis indexing the exhaustion of the accumulation capacity of the neoliberal epoch of the capitalist world-ecology, the global land grab constitutes another such attempted moment of re-securing the cheap food premise through racialized frontier appropriation. This dissertation …
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Cultures of Resistance in Pre-Famine Ireland
… threatening letters were part of a resistance to primitive accumulation and proletarianisation. The main body of this study is concerned with analysing the content of a selection of notices using a methodology adapted from ground theory method. Through a process of inductive coding I identified …
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Kuduro, rap and resistance: Politics of music and activism in ‘new’ hegemonic Angola
… what Kalyan Sanyal (2007) coined as reversal of primitive accumulation is a useful concept here, but it falls short of fully explaining practices of patronage. Thus, I suggest seductive power as an extended concept, in order to understand co-option as both an economic and a cultural practice. In …
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THE MATERIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE: THE COLONIAL ROOTS OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
The present work aims to draw on the theoretical legacy of postcolonial critique, which includes the assumption of a fundamental continuity between colonial history and our postcolonial world, in order to rethink the current configuration of the relationship between capital and knowledge (usually …
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From Dispossession to Surplus Production: A Theory of Capitalist Accumulation in Neoliberal Bangladesh
… has been playing a central role in capitalist accumulation over the last four-hundred-year history of modern capitalism. This dissertation theorizes how dispossession contributes to producing and reproducing the capitalist mode of production in Bangladesh. To do so, the dissertation empirically …
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No Circe with wicked charms: dialectical mediation of time in South Korea’s cultural formation in the 1980s
… from the late 60s, the previous regime of accumulation needed to re-modulate its global production-relations. The U.S. as the key currency holder responded by the deregulation of banking capitals and the regulation of interest rates in domestic level and by ending one-sidedly the Bretton …
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Racial Subsumption: A Historical Materialist Analysis of Syrian Refugee Governance in the Longue Durée of Turkish Capitalism
… a state-mediated process through which accumulation fuses expropriation and exploitation, stabilising their effects as racialized difference. I conceptualise two limit outcomes. Eliminated surplus populations (ESPs) name populations expelled from the territorial space of accumulation …
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By way of the highway: a collection of towers
… geometry, if we live devoid of origin with no primitive accumulation of time, if architectural space does not always necessitate the symbolic harmony of formal relationships but rather seeks to confront its natural surroundings, if the arrangement of space is deformative, lying somewhere in …