In hopes of you passing this information on to your students (and colleagues), I’d like to announce the upcoming FREE lectures by Nancy Fraser, the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York.
She is one of the leading political philosophers and feminist theorists practicing today, her writing addresses issues of concern to a broad audience, including globalization, cosmopolitanism, identity politics, neoliberalism, the welfare state, and gender issues.
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Nature, Labor, Money: Flashpoints of Capitalist Crisis in the 21st Century Tuesday, January 25, 2011, Rawles Hall, room 100, 7:30 p.m.
Fraser will discuss Karl Polanyi's concept of fictitious commodification from his 1944 book, The Great Transformation. After proposing a post-metaphysical reinterpretation of this concept, she will use it to analyze burgeoning markets in nature, reproductive labor, and finance as flashpoints of the current crisis of neoliberalism. The result will be a revised understanding of commodification that better grasps both the system dynamics and the normative deficits of contemporary capitalism.
Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Grammars of Struggle in Capitalist Crisis Thursday, January 27, 2011, Rawles Hall, room 100, 7:30 p.m.
Fraser will examine Polanyi's conception of the double movement. Seeking to expand his idea of a two-sided conflict between partisans of deregulated markets and proponents of social protection, she will incorporate a third pole of social movement, aimed at emancipation. The result will be a revised understanding of the grammar of social conflict that better reflects the social struggles of the twenty-first century.
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