Subjects of the Economy
Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility: An Investigation of Subject Space at Collective Copies
Janelle Cornwell
This paper explores the production of space and time at a worker co-operative copy shop in Western Massachusetts.
Cornwell, J. Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility: An Investigation of Subject Space at Collective Copies. Antipode. 00 Online First 1-21
Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility: An Investigation of Subject Space at Collective Copies
This paper explores the production of work space and time in a worker co-operative copy shop in Western Massachusetts.
Cornwell, J. 2011. Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility: An Investigation of Subject Spaces at Collective Copies. Antipode 00 1-21 Online First
The Work that Parks Do
Nate Gabriel
Discusses the role of visual representation in the production of urban economic subjects. Focus on Philadelphia in the 19th Century. Includes a discussion of the continuation of subsistence practices into the 20th. 4 images.
Cooperation, Surplus Appropriation, and the Law’s Enjoyment
Stephen Healy
This paper explores the performative effects of law legal incoporation in the context of worker cooperatives internally governed through consensus, concluding that this representational disjuncture has particular effects on cooperative subjectivity.
Healy, S., 2011. “Cooperation, Surplus Appropriation, and the Law’s Enjoyment,” Rethinking Marxism 23(3): 364-370.
Poor Mothers are not poor mothers: Cross-cultural learning between northwest China and Australasia
Kelly Dombroski
This paper takes a look at the practice of ba niao or 'Elimination Communication', where even very small babies are held out to 'eliminate' their waste rather than using nappies! The cross-cultural awkward engagement between two different hygiene understandings sparks changes in the day-to-day domestic practices of a group of Australasian mothers who rethink their use of hygiene products and other 'stuff'.
Dombroski, K. (2010) Poor mothers are not poor mothers: Cross-cultural learning between northwest China and Australasia. Unpublished conference paper presented atA New Generation of Cross-cultural Researchers: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney September 2010.
Enjoyment as an Economic Factor: Reading Marx with Lacan
Yahya M. Madra
This paper takes issue with economic discourses that present excessive greed as the central cause of economic crises. We argue that this focus on greed as the catalyst (when harnessed “appropriately”) or the enemy of social order keeps the public debate from deliberating on the particular modes of enjoyment (jouissance) which both shore up and destabilize the dynamics of production, appropriation, distribution and consumption under capitalism. We produce an analysis of the latest crisis of US capitalism that steers away not only from the theoretical humanist categories like "greed", but also from the residual reproductionism that continues to silently inform certain Lacanian analyses.
Madra, Y. M. and C. Özselçuk. Forthcoming 2010. Enjoyment as an Economic Factor: Reading Marx with Lacan, Subjectivity 3(3).
An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene
Gerda Roelvink, JK Gibson-Graham
Faced with the daunting prospect of global warming and the apparent stalemate in the formal political sphere, this paper explores how human beings are transformed by, and transformative of, the world in which we find ourselves.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. and G. Roelvink. 2010. An economic ethics for the Anthropocene, Antipode 41(1), 320-346.
Traversing Fantasies, Activating Desires: Economic Geography, Activist Research and Psychoanalytic Methodology
Stephen Healy
This article reviews the growing body of literature produced by geographers who make use of psychoanalytic theory in the course of their research, before considering how Left Lacanian theory was deployed in diverse economies research.
Healy, S., 2010. “Traversing Fantasies, Activating Desires: Economic Geography, Activist Research and Psychoanalytic Methodology,” Professional Geographer, 62(4): 496-506.
Caring for Ethics and the Politics of Health Care Reform
Stephen Healy
Informal caregiving frequently exacts a heavy psychic and physical toll on subjects that perform it while simultaneously figuring as a source of deep ethical meaning, raising questions about how to account for both dimensions in a politics of health care reform.
Healy, S. 2008. “Caring for Ethics and the Politics of Health Care Reform,” Gender, Place and Culture, 15(3): 267-284.
Co-operative Subjects: Towards a Post-Fantasmatic Enjoyment of the Economy
Stephen Healy
This paper cowritten with Ken Byrne uses the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to explore how people are attached to particular notions of economy, by way of contrast we explore how worker cooperators in Argentina's newly formed worker cooperatives experience their economic subjectivity.
Byrne, K. and S. Healy, 2006. “Co-operative Subjects: Towards a Post-Fantasmatic Enjoyment of the Economy,” Rethinking Marxism 18(2): 241-258.
Feminising the Economy
JK Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron
Exploring how recent feminist thinkers are attempting to add women into the economy.
Cameron J. and J. K. Gibson-Graham. 2003. Feminising the Economy: metaphors, strategies, politics, Gender, Place & Culture 10(2), 145-157.
Imagining and Enacting Non-Capitalist Futures
Outlines the 'politics of becoming' associated with desiring and building communal economies.
The Community Collective. 2001. Imagining and enacting non-capitalist futures, Socialist Review 28(3), 93-135.