Tepe-Belfrage, D. and Steans, J. (2016) The New Materialism: Re-claiming a Debate from a Feminist Perspective. Capital and Class, 40 (2). pp. 305-326. ISSN 0309-8168
Abstract
This article re-claims and invigorates the debate on ‘New Materialism’ as it is unfolding within Marxist political economy specifically. We choose this site to make our intervention in the debate because, while Marxism claims to makes visible the poor, dispossessed and those ‘left behind’ in the contemporary global capitalist economy, we discern, in contributions made thus far, a marked tendency to sideline the rich tradition of feminist historical materialist scholarship. We contend that feminist analyses are vital in elucidating the ‘gendered face’ of global financial crisis and austerity. Accordingly, after first mapping the contours of current discussion, we briefly revisit feminist critiques of Marxism; interrogate the inter-relationship between neoliberal capitalism, the gendered nature of labour markets, the ‘patriarchal’ state and social reproduction and unpaid care work; and, finally, we further develop our argument through an analysis of the gendered impacts of current austerity measures in the United Kingdom.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2016. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Capital and Class. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2015 16:20 |
Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2016 04:25 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816816653892 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications (UK and US) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0309816816653892 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87424 |