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Capitalism
This chapter aims to provide a sociological review of the main interpretations of capitalism from the early days of sociology to the present day. To...
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“The Song of Love”: An Archaeology of Radio History and Surveillance Capitalism
The mass distribution of advertising and information via radio propelled capitalism into a new logic of accumulation, penetrating private spaces with...
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Introduction: Economic Neoliberalism—A New Spirit of Capitalism?
The search for the spirit of capitalism is as old as modern rational capitalism itself. In the mid/late nineteenth century, the search was started...
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Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation
The capitalism and slavery debate is among the most significant in world historiography. This essay suggests that its main perspectives still use...
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Challenging Global Capitalism: Four Measures of Ecuador’s Citizens Revolution Inspiring Equitable and Sustainable Development Discourse
This article examines four measures that challenged global capitalism during Ecuador’s Citizens Revolution (2007–2017). These include debt...
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Cracks and Fugitive Geographies: Agrarian Capitalism and Rural Landscapes in Central Veracruz, Mexico, Nineteenth-Twentyth Centuries
This article reflects on the spatial history of agrarian capitalism in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, through the lens of a French farming colony on...
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Pathways Out of Capitalism
Further interrogating the role of gender in growth capitalism, this chapter broadens out to explore cultural norms of individualism and how these...
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Oliver C. Cox and the political economy of racial capitalism
Oliver C. Cox was one of the most important and accomplished US-based sociologists, labor historians, and socialist thinkers of the twentieth...
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Life’s continuation: repro-tech, biogenetic affinity, and racial capitalism
This paper examines the affinity ties of biological and familial whiteness in ART as evident in the 2014 Illinois Northern District Court case of Cramb...
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Coronavirus, capitalism and a ‘thousand tiny dis/advantages’: a more-than-human analysis
This paper establishes a relational, post-anthropocentric and materialist approach to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Analysis of the ‘pandemic...
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Tactics for Becoming Visible: South Asian Minorities in the Times of Communicative Capitalism
We explore the tactics of becoming visible and their relationship to alleviating or exacerbating precarious forms of life for minorities in South...
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Inscrutable futures: biotechnology, architecture, and planetary ecology in late industrial China
The future is becoming inscrutable in Shenzhen, a city in southern China, despite efforts by biotechnologists to make life predictable and subject to...
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Modern Family Capitalism in South Korea
This chapter maintains that despite the infusion of neoliberal management practices post the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis, family capitalism...
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Toward a theory of alienation: futurelessness in financial capitalism
There is an extensive body of literature detailing the forces behind and experiences of alienation in a modern capitalist world. However, social...
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Neoliberal State Capitalism in China: Integration Without Opening
Over the past three decades, the wave of globalization has engulfed the entire world and China is no exception. As China became “the world’s factory”...
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Parsons as Economist: His Early Writings on Modern Capitalism
Talcott Parsons is one of the most famous American sociologists, yet he was trained as an economist. During the nineteen twenties and into the...
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Capitalism Needs to Be Re-encapsulated
Capitalism, which has become the dominant economic system in the world, requires a strong political and social capsule, made out of regulations and...
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Marxism, U.S. Democracy, and Lenin’s Commune Against Capitalism
In his 2016 essay “An American Utopia,” Fredric Jameson appropriates Lenin’s concept of “dual power” to ruminate on its potential meaning in the...
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The Necromancy of Derivative Violence: Finance Capitalism, Planetary Pandemics, and Speculative Wagers on Death in the Anthropocene
In this chapter, I introduce the concept of “derivative violence”. Building on Marx’s variable-constant capital calculus, I argue that finance...
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Envisioning Logging Camps as Sites of Social Antagonism in Capitalism: An Anishinaabe Example from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
This article presents an archaeological case study that explores a residential logging camp as a site of social antagonism between the relations of...
