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SUMMARY:Steve Wright: "The Political: Some Experiences from the Italian Operaismo of the 1960s and 1970s"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will critically examine debates around ‘the political’ amongst the Italian workerists. While championing new understandings of class composition that challenged the traditional leninist separation of economic and political struggles\, the workerists of the 1960s and 1970s nonetheless struggled to formulate an agreed approach to theorising and practicing ‘the political’. The talk will seek to explore the ways in which this tension played itself out\, from early debates concerning the traditional institutions of the workers movement\, to efforts to develop organizational projects outside the existing parties and unions. Along the way\, attention will also be paid to the contributions of those (such as the editors of Collegamenti and Le operaie della casa) who\, despite the incisiveness of many of their contributions\, found themselves situated largely on the margins of the workerists’ debates as these unfolded at the time. \nSteve Wright teaches in the Faculty of Information Technology\, Monash University\, and is the author of Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press\, 2002). His current research is focussed on the creation and use of documents amongst the Italian workerists of the 1960s and 1970s. \n\n  \nPRESENTATION SLIDES:\n“The Political:
 Some Experiences from the 
 Italian Operaismo of the 1960s & 1970s” \n  \n\n  \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nEVENT PODCAST:
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-research-cluster-steve-wright-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Steve Wright seminar: “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo"
DESCRIPTION:Steve Wright will be leading a seminar discussion based on “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo\,” recently published in Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth\, Beyond Marx: Theorising the Global Labour Relations of the Twenty-First Century (Brill\, 2013). \nParticipants are invited to read the text and join the discussion. \nThe text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/037e976xsu37xzv/Steve%20Wright%2C%20Revolution%20from%20Above.pdf?dl=0 \nThis seminar is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures\,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research\, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature\, Sociology\, Anthropology\, and Politics Departments; Stevenson\, Cowell\, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research. \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steve-wright-seminar-revolution-from-above-money-and-class-composition-in-italian-operaismo-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ching Kwan Lee: "Buying Stability in China: Markets\, Protests and Authoritarianism”
DESCRIPTION:This talk outlines China’s trajectory of commodification and the counter-movements by state and society in the past quarter century. Unpacking the class specific dynamics and experiences of precarization\, I discuss how the commodification of land\, labor\, housing and the environment has triggered collective struggles by farmers\, workers and the middle class. To maintain social stability\, the Chinese state has responded\, on the one hand\, with new social protection policies of uneven effectiveness\, and on the other\, a practice of “buying stability” which unwittingly commodifies state authority and citizen’s rights\, sowing seeds of precariousness in the regime’s authoritarian governance. \nChing Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She obtained her PhD in Sociology at the University of California\, Berkeley and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Michigan before moving to UCLA. Her publications have focused on labor\, social activism\, political sociology and development in China and the Global South. \nLee is author of Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007)\, and Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998). Her edited and co-edited books include From the Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets\, Workers and the State in a Changing China (2011); Reclaiming Chinese Society: New Social Activism (2009)\, Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China (2007) and Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (2007). \nShe is currently working on two book manuscripts. One is on forty years of state and society relation in China\, and the other on Chinese investment in Zambia. \n  \nEVENT PODCAST:\n \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-research-cluster-ching-kwan-lee-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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