Reproduction unites Marxist crisis theory, cultural ideology, and feminist labour analysis

Evidence

Hence, I draw here upon a concept of reproduction to explain the power and influence of finance on culture (a term I use advisedly, given that I aim to transgress its usual borders), and the way culture is at work at the core of financialization. This concept of reproduction combines three components. First, I draw on Marxist theories of the reproduction of capital accumulation through the displacement of its systemic crises (through war, imperialism and, importantly, speculation). Second, I mobilize cultural studies approaches that query how capitalist social relations, hegemony and ideology are reproduced through cultural texts and everyday life. Third, I lean on feminist conceptualizations of reproduction, which refocus our attention on capitalism’s reliance on the subordination of reproductive labour (traditionally, though not exclusively, associated with “women’s work”) and broaden our conception of reproduction so that we might ask deeper, harder questions about the nature of capitalist exploitation and its reliance on other systems of domination such as patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism and ablism. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 44

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: The three-way synthesis (Marxist crises + cultural studies + feminist reproduction) is the same triangulation that grounds deWaard’s cultural-financialization argument.

Related

• Finance’s grip on culture can be analyzed through a three-part theory of reproduction. (similarity 0.87)
• Capitalism’s material system is interwoven with cultural reproduction (similarity 0.83)
• Capital depends on unpaid female reproductive labour outside the factory (similarity 0.81)
• Culture spans everyday social reproduction and aesthetic practice as one contested process (similarity 0.81)
• Social reproduction is a contested field, not automatic habit (similarity 0.81)
• Material and social reproduction occur simultaneously and inseparably (similarity 0.80)
• Financialization is a contested terrain of conflicting reproduction cycles, not a top-down imposition (similarity 0.80)
• Social fictions are how societies make sense of sublime reproduction (similarity 0.79)
• Social reproduction theory enables analysis of family and unproductive labor beyond economic reduction (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Social reproduction theory enables analysis of family and unproductive labor beyond economic reduction #expands (0.85)
• Social reproduction thinking revives domains Marxist base-superstructure theory had reduced away #corroborates (0.80)
• Feminism rupturally reorganized Cultural Studies across five concrete dimensions #exemplifies (0.80)
• Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions #expands (0.75)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363