Animating capital: Work, commodities, circulation

Barua, Maan

doi:10.1177/0309132518819057

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“…Broadly, we are inspired by recent work on biocapital and lively commodities that interrogate the specific ways in which new commodities and new forms of labor are rendered, measured, valued, financed, and circulated (Rajan 2006;Cooper 2008;Cooper and Waldby 2014). Scholarship on lively commodities takes account of the moment when new commodities enter into a process of valuation, where they become envisioned as sources of surplus, exchange, affect, circulation, or possibility (Barua 2019). Value does not necessarily mean price, or profit, as we detail throughout this article.…”

Section: Destitution Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control

Coddington

Conlon

Martin

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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In this article, we argue that destitution economies of migration control are specific circuits of exchange and value constituted by migration control practices that produce migrant and refugee destitution. Comparative analysis of three case studies, including border encampment in Thailand, deprivation in U.S. immigration detention centers, and deterrence through destitution in the United Kingdom, demonstrate that circuits of value depend on the detachment of workers from citizenship and simultaneously produce both migrant destitution and new forms of value production. Within destitution economies, migration and asylum's particular juridico-political position as domestic, foreign, and securitized allows legal regimes to produce migrants and asylum seekers as distinct economic subjects: forsaken recipients of aid. Although they might also work for pay, we argue that destitute migrants and asylum seekers have value for others through the grinding labor of living in poverty. That is, in their categorization as migrants and asylum seekers, they occupy a particular position in relation to economic circuits. These economic circuits of migration control, in turn, rely on the destitution of mobile people. Our approach advances political geographies of migration, bordering, and exclusion as well as economic geographies of marketization and value, arguing that the predominance of political analysis and critique of immigration and asylum regimes obscures how those regimes produce circuits of value in and through law, state practices, and exclusion. Furthermore, law, state power, and forced mobility constitute circuits of value and marketization. Conceptualizing these migration control practices as destitution economies illuminates novel transformations of the political and economic geographies of migration, borders, and inequality.

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Section: Destitution Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control

Coddington

Conlon

Martin

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…We suggest that there is scope for research on milk that considers this vitality. Research might consider the human–animal rhythms ( Barua, 2016 ), for example, that make up dairy landscapes, including how livestock are simultaneously commodities and laborers ( Barua, 2019 ) and how the commodification of milk therefore relies on animals' vitality to overcome biological limits and facilitate capital accumulation. As Bakker (2012) suggests of water, we might approach milk’s vitality as the interlocking biophysical, physiological, and ecological processes that contribute to how human societies experience, know, and organize around milk.…”

Section: Political Ecologies Of Milk: Justice Power Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Political ecology of milk: Contested futures of a lively food

Clay

Yurco

2020

Geography Compass

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This article advances thinking on the political ecology of food and agriculture by reviewing research on milk and dairy. As increasingly contested foods, milk and dairy provide a window onto inter-linked social and environmental crises and attempts to solve them through adjustments to food production and consumption. We critically assess three trajectories of change ( more milk, better milk, and less milk) that are representative of broader efforts to fix social-environmental crises through food. Arguing that these efforts eschew systemic change, we discuss how ideas from food studies, agrarian political economy, and development studies can be united in a potentially transformative research agenda on the political ecology of milk (as well as other foods).We reflect on how concepts of justice, power, and care might inform a political ecology of food and agriculture that can help envision and enact more democratic food futures.

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“…To emphasize, the point of this section is that the project of multispecies cohabitation will have to consider who might enjoy or suffer from its effects, and how. Current capitalist, neoliberal political structures seek to put nonhuman life to work as capital, commodities, services or labour (Barua, 2019). It is necessary to guard the proposals for cohabitation from the adoption of templates that encourage further exploitation.…”

Section: More-than-human Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multispecies Cohabitation and Future Design

Roudavski¹

2020

Proceedings of DRS

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The ongoing COVID 19 epidemic is but one demonstration of what can happen to health and wellbeing if planning and designing do not engage with nonhuman life and whole ecosystems. This paper argues that design researchers should consider multispecies cohabitation and more-than-human cultures in all designs of future settlements. This position is inspired by existing projects for 'nonhuman clients' undertaken by the Deep Design Lab and its collaborators. These include designs of artificial replacements for bird nests (Fig. 1) (Roudavski & Parker, 2020), designs of artificial structures to replace disappearing keystone habitats such as large old trees (Fig. 2), analyses of existing trees in terms of their affordances for nonhuman life (Fig. 3) including their heritage value (Roudavski & Rutten, 2020), development of intelligent lighting systems to combat environmental light pollution (Fig. 4) as well as designs for insects, mosses and urban marine life. A recurrent theme in these projects is the need to achieve persistent modifications in behaviours, traditions, and cultures of human and nonhuman cohabitants. If the efforts to make human-populated environment more hospitable to nonhuman life will prove to be

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Animating capital: Work, commodities, circulation

Cited by 109 publications

References 88 publications

Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control

Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control

Political ecology of milk: Contested futures of a lively food

Multispecies Cohabitation and Future Design

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