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Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova – Nature, Women, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration

February 10 @ 1:00 pm  |  Humanities 1, Room 420

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Join us as we continue the Winter 25 session of the HistCon Speaker Series next week! Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova, University of Bergamo (the class[y] economists) will give their talk “Nature, Women, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration” on Monday, February 10, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420.

If you are unable to make it in person, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link.

About Nature, Women, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration:
In the last decades there has been a large debate of what may be referred to as the “gender question” and the “nature question”. Large parts of feminism and ecologism have been critical of the Marxian approach, while Marxists have never really engaged in a debate, either seen the encounter as unproblematical or dismissing it altogether. Discussing also aspects of the Italian debate, we argue that feminism and ecologism need finally to meet Marx, at least the Marx where the centrality of the working condition in capitalism is at the same time a criticism of the overwhelming centrality of production. Common misconceptions of what is the meaning of the “primacy of labour” point of view, as well as about domestic labour and social reproduction, need to be clarified and dispelled.

Riccardo BellofioreRiccardo Bellofiore, formerly Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy), is interested in the Marxian theory of value and crisis, the development and crisis of capitalism, the endogenous theories of money, the history of economic thought and economic philosophy. He has published ‘The Adventures of Vergesellschaftung’ (in Consecutio Rerum, 2018) and, with Giovanna Vertova, The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar, 2014). He has recently co-edited, in English with Tommaso Redolfi Riva, Marx: Key Concepts ((Edward Elgar, 2024) and, with Stefano Breda, the Italian translation of Michael Heinrich’s Die Wissenschaft vom Wert [Science of Value] (Pgreco, 2024). With Giovanna Vertova he runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe.

Giovanna VertovaGiovanna Vertova, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy), is interested in the spatial dimension of economics, with a focus on the globalization debate; the economics of innovation, especially in reference to national innovation systems; gender and feminist economics, especially in relation to the labor market. With Riccardo Bellofiore she has published The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar, 2014). She has recently published chapters for Spinger’s and Elgar’s collective volumes and articles in scientific journals, on the themes of the permanent catastrophe of capitalism, gender mainstreaming, and the so-called Great Resignation. With Riccardo Bellofiore she runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe.

Details

Date:
February 10
Time:
1:00 pm

Venue

Humanities 1, Room 420
Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College
Santa Cruz,CA95064United States
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831-459-3527