Cannibal Capitalism. How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – And What We Can Do About It Cannibal Capitalism. How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – And What We Can Do About It , by N. Fraser, New York and London, Verso Books, 2022, 208 pages, £14.99 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-83976-123-2

Transforming adult education through critical feminist theory: Towards a critical consciousness learning model

“…Critical feminist theorists (e.g. hooks, 1984, 2004; Collins, 1991, 2019, Davis, 1983, Fraser, 2005, 2013, 2022) criticized the social, cultural, and political structures that favor the privileged and perpetuate the subordination of women. The critical feminist theory particularly emphasizes the understanding of how social, political, and economic structures have been shaped by social relations and how individuals could challenge the systems of oppression and seek for social transformations.…”

“…In recent years, critical feminists (Bannerji, 2005, 2011; Collins, 1991; Davis, 1983, 1998, 2012; Dei & Calliste, 2000, Fraser, 2008, 2013, 2022; hooks, 1981, 1984; Mahmood, 2005; Mohanty, 2003) not only examine the intersectionality of race, gender, and class, but also delve into the realm of understanding how the experiences of racialized women could actively challenge the prevailing hegemonic ideology and institutional structures. By adopting a critical perspective, critical feminist theory helps to scrutinize the multifaceted struggles faced by marginalized individuals in terms of material conditions, ideological constructs, power relations, and a transformative future.…”

Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser

“…This leads us to another key issue, namely, the relationship between public sphere and capitalism. While you focused strongly on the public sphere in the 1990s and also afterwards, later, your focus shifted towards the elaboration of an extended notion of capitalism (Fraser 2022b). We are curious in how those two parts of your thinking relate to each other.…”

“…Rather, it must be a matter of wresting the regulation of social media from Facebook's private creative power in such a way that it itself becomes a public matter. At this point, Fraser links her analysis of publics with her theory of capitalism (Fraser 2014a;Fraser 2022b;Fraser and Jaeggi 2018): Far more than a mere economic system, capitalism is based on social, political, cultural and ecological background conditions, which it simultaneously makes invisible. This invisibilization is closely linked to a separation of the public from the private sphere: care work, which is mostly performed by women and is indispensable for the continuation of capitalist exploitation, is banished to the private sphere and thus removed from public discussion, just like corporate control over the functioning of social media.…”

The Moral Matrix of Capitalism: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe

“…3 Focusing on projects of fiscal austerity, others have revealed how rising socio-economic inequality has been accompanied by a weakening of citizens' rights to employment, welfare, and political representation. 4 Together, these normative analyses paint a portrait of neoliberal capitalism as maximisation by rapacious rent seeking and driven by a form of "amoral market fundamentalism" 5 that privileges profit maximisation over public duty, self-interest over social obligations, and self-reliance over collective responsibility. Overall, this is a portrayal of a capitalism that has "lost" its moral compass (especially at the top), of widespread "immorality," of corroding of morals, and of moral deficiency, crisis, and decline.…”