Marx's Others - Bodies, Affects and Experience

While there has been renewed interest in Marx recently, we cannot simply apply his more than 170-year-old texts to today's world. Across the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural studies, this volume reworks Marxist critique for the twenty-first century. Capitalism, after all, has not only taken on new shapes, but, in the age of climate and care crisis, police violence, mass incarceration and global migration, it has also found new ways of exploiting and fragmenting the global workforce. The book's key contribution is to link the embodied experiences of those fragmented workers - Marx's Black, feminist, trans and queer »others« - with the pressing challenge of creating and mobilizing a political subject under the current iteration of capitalism.

About the author

Edith Otero Quezada is a PhD candidate in InterAmerican Studies and research associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Research (IZG) at Universität Bielefeld. She was a scholarship holder of the German Foundation Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (2017-2020). Her research interests are feminist epistemologies, political subjectivity, guerrillas and social movements, especially in Central America and Latin America.
Vanessa Lara Ullrich is a PhD candidate in political theory and the history of ideas and research associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Research (IZG) at Universität Bielefeld. She studied psychology and politics at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (B.Sc.) and the University of Oxford (M.Sc.). Her main research interests are critical theory and social philosophy. She also writes for newspaper outlets such as 'Jacobin' or 'Zeit Online'.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lara Ullrich (Editor), Vanessa Lara Ullrich (Editor), Otero Quezada (Editor), Edith Otero Quezada (Editor), Vanessa Lara Ullrich (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9783837668353
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6835-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 10 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 198 g
• Illustrations: 2 Farbabb.
• Series: Geschlecht als Erfahrung; Geschlecht als Erfahrung 3
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Soziologie, Gender Studies, Gender, Literature, Economy, Capitalism, Postcolonialism, Queer Theory, Social Movements, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus, auseinandersetzen, Marxism, Queer-Feminist Theory