Contemporary scholarship increasingly speaks of capitalism(s) rather than a singular capitalism. Platform economies, gig work, extractive markets, aestheticized consumer cultures, and criminalized market formations coexist and overlap, generating distinct configurations of power, precarity, and harm.
This seminar brings together scholars working with different conceptualizations of capitalism alongside participants engaged with questions of violence and harm beyond academia, to examine how contemporary market logics produce mutations of violence – economic, symbolic, cultural, and criminal.
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New Capitalism[s]& Violence – lusem.lu.se/calendar