Hidden Abodes and Inner Bonds: Literary Study and Marxist-Feminism

De’Ath, Amy

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“…A similar deployment of Marx's method beyond its original application can be found in feminist social reproduction theory. The Marxist feminist dictum "They say it is love, we say it is unwaged work"-formulated in the same years as Hall's oft-cited line-can be understood as a concretizing effort that reveals how processes of feminization serve to mystify the reproductive labor of housewives (De'Ath, 2022;Raha, 2021). This paper demonstrates the promise of Marx's method of concretization for contemporary critical international studies.…”

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Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production

Stoffel

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2023

European Journal of International Relations

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This paper identifies a common process of mystification within academic knowledge production today: the treatment of subordinated groups as mere metaphors or rhetorical figures for academic theorizing. We witness it when academics ask what trans might teach us about transnationality, when we are invited to reflect on what might be queer about modern warfare, or when nation-states are described as subaltern. Trans, queer, and subaltern populations are routinely fetishized within scholarship on the “traditional” International Relations concerns of statecraft, migration, security, and so on. This tendency serves a mystifying function by disabling scholars from examining the social relations that shape and organize their lives and histories. This paper proceeds in three parts. First, to understand the origins and logics of this self-mystifying process, this paper returns, via Stuart Hall, to Karl Marx’s methodological writings on abstraction. It contributes to the formalization of his methodology for contemporary IR scholarship by drawing a distinction between the fetishization of abstraction and the concretization of abstraction. Second, the paper explores how abstracted subject positions have been fetishized within three fields of international studies: trans studies, queer theory, and subaltern studies. Third, after elaborating a critique of this mystifying move, the paper outlines alternative approaches that instead seek to concretize the abstractions queer, trans, and subaltern by attending to their specific historical and social determinations. These strategies of demystification, we argue, carry forward a founding commitment of critical theory that is all too often abandoned within scholarly knowledge production today.

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Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production

Stoffel

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2023

European Journal of International Relations

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“…For a map of recent theorizing of the relationship of race and class (capital), see Chandra and Chen, 2022. For discussions of how gender is the modality in which class is lived, with a focus on the question of value, see Endnotes, 2013; De’Ath, 2022.…”

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The commune is our payable debt

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2023

Cultural Dynamics

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This essay holds a conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva’s book, Unpayable Debt. Ferreira da Silva describes Unpayable Debt as a Black feminist reading tool that stages the onto-epistemological conditions for the unrelenting persistence of the Colonial and the Racial—modalities of power and violence—in the present, in/as global capital. A major part of the work performed by Ferreira da Silva with this reading tool is the re/de/composition of a Marxian theory of value. This work is intended to show that Marx’s analysis conceals gendered and racialized violence in the way it renders the dynamic of capitalist accumulation. In concurring with the urgency of Ferreira da Silva’s question and ensuing interrogation, I offer a different way of reading Marx’s theory of value, as a theory that illuminates how capital comes to mediate gendered and racialized subjugation, sustaining it through its dissimulation.

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Socially Reproductive Workers, ‘Life-Making’, and State Repression

Munro

2023

Political Philosophy and Public Purpose

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Hidden Abodes and Inner Bonds: Literary Study and Marxist-Feminism

Cited by 7 publications

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Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production

Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production

The commune is our payable debt

Socially Reproductive Workers, ‘Life-Making’, and State Repression

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