Equality without equivalence: an anthropology of the common★

Walker, Harry

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“…Intersectional emancipation, as I chose to call it, entails ‘making connections through differences’ (Keating, 2009: 95). It entails recognising that ‘diversity [is] a universal project’ (Mignolo, 2000: 273) or, in a manner akin to Amerindian indigenous thought, that difference is ‘a bond rather than a division’ (Walker, 2020: 148). Under such a reading, then, the singularity of individuals’ experiences and interests is recognised but is regarded as one constitutive part of a wider whole (Keating, 2002).…”

Section: Intersectionality As ‘Co-formation’ Relationality and Emanci...mentioning

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Intersectional Socialism: Rethinking the Socialist Future with Intersectionality Theory

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2023

Sociology

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Intersectionality theory can achieve more than an examination of mechanisms of power and oppression. It can also, shed light on what things might become. Drawing on this particular application of intersectionality theory, I argue that it can be deployed to imagine a socialist future and, in so doing, restore socialism’s utopian energies. This is achieved by tackling a distinctively socialist issue – the future of work – and showing the kind of conceptual innovations intersectionality theory can help develop. The future of work thus imagined is conceptualised as a dialogically coordinated production of life.

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Section: Intersectionality As ‘Co-formation’ Relationality and Emanci...mentioning

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Intersectional Socialism: Rethinking the Socialist Future with Intersectionality Theory

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2023

Sociology

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“…Instead, what the pluriversal approach has the potential to do is to provide a basis for reimagining identity, by rethinking the way difference and otherness are apprehended. It ‘disrupt[s] dominant discourses that regard these categories as fixed and mutually exclusive’ (Crenshaw, 2011, p. 230) and opens up the scope for treating, like many indigenous communities do in America, otherness as ‘a bond rather than a division’ (Walker, 2020, p. 148). The matter at hand, therefore, does not so much consist in an outright rejection of identity but in conceptualising identity as something brought to life relationally.…”

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Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia

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2022

The Sociological Review

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Since intersectionality theory constitutes a critical assessment of the way the social world operates and strives for social justice, it entails an image of how the world is and how things could become. In this article a version of intersectionality with particularly strong counter-cultural tendencies is considered. Drawing on Ruth Levitas’s approach to utopia as ‘method’, it makes explicit pluriversal intersectionality’s utopian content. It is shown that the defining features of this intersectionality theory share an elective affinity with the principle of self-management lying at the core of the libertarian strand of socialist thought. But the utopia whose contours are drawn here is not expected to act as a blueprint. Instead, the article aspires to serve as an invitation to dialogue about the kind of future that could lie beyond intersectional oppression and, consequently, help consolidate pluriversal intersectionality’s transformative potential.

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“…Egalitarian values appear in many aspects of Adivasi life: the relative absence of the show of wealth or the idea of saving/accumulating; 4 the significance given to sharing, mutual aid and labour exchange; 5 the relative gender equality; 6 and, pertinent for this article, the egalitarian spirit through which communities can be led. Walker (2020) talks of 'equality without equivalence'; however, as far as I can see, many of those who have stressed egalitarian values among foraging and hunting societies have at the same time also stressed their individual autonomy, and the underlying assumptions are that egalitarian values by no means mean that everyone is the same (see, for example, Morris, 2014). 4.…”

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What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries

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2021

Development and Change

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What if we selected our leaders by lottery? Zooming out from the mud huts of indigenous communities in the forested hills of eastern India, this article compares three different models of leadership and democracy: liberal electoral democracy; Marxist-Leninist Maoist democracy; and democracy by sortition -the random selection of rotating leaders. The significance of sortition is introduced into discussions of democracy in India (showing connections with practices in Nepal and China) as part of a broader attempt to make scholarship on South Asia more democratic. The author also re-reads ideals of leadership among indigenous people, showing that we need a theoretical and practical vision arguing not for societies without leaders but for societies in which everyone may be a leader. In India, this compels us to push back against the critique of its indigenous communities for not producing leaders and enables a profound re-reading of the history of subaltern anti-colonial rebellions. The final aim of the article is to highlight the virtues of the potential of sortition in creating democratic society globally. How we think about democracy and leadership is thus turned on its head to provide a new vision for the future. Now the average CIO bureaucrat or Labor Member of Parliament in Britain would fall in a fit if it was suggested to him that any worker selected at random could do the work that he is doing, but that was precisely the guiding principle of Greek Democracy. And this form of government is the government under which flourished the greatest civilization the world has ever known.C.L.R. James (1956) 'Every Cook Can Govern' For David Graeber, who showered us with mountains of giftsThis article is an expanded version of the lecture delivered at the Development Studies Association Conference, which was held online, 17-19 June 2020. The ideas it contains are also shared as the inaugural David Graeber Memorial Lecture delivered by the author in May 2021.

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Equality without equivalence: an anthropology of the common★

Cited by 19 publications

References 57 publications

Intersectional Socialism: Rethinking the Socialist Future with Intersectionality Theory

Intersectional Socialism: Rethinking the Socialist Future with Intersectionality Theory

Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia

What if We Selected our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections and Communist Revolutionaries

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