S Charusheela
Biographic Data
| ID | 6538503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Charusheela |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Charusheela |
| SIGNATURE | CHARUSHEELA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Revisiting Transition
The diverse economies framework developed by Gibson-Graham, Resnick and Wolff, and members of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis marks an important break from classical Marxism. It addresses the teleology and economic determinism of previous frameworks by breaking from capitalocentrism, and thus has the potential to avoid the developmental modernism of previous Marxist frameworks. However, this chapter argues that the diverse econom…
Postcolonialism Meets Economics
Response
Sandro Mezzadra's “The Topicality of Prehistory: A New Reading of Marx's Analysis of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’” foregrounds the problematic of political subjectivity at the heart of discussions of capitalism's relation to its origins. His essay resituates the problematic of primitive accumulation within the context of the constitution of capitalist wage labor. In this context, Mezzadra warns against romanticizing subaltern agency. This r…
Gender and the stability of consumption
Alan Coddington critiques post-Keynesians for their use of fundamental uncertainty. He argues that fundamental uncertainty should also affect the consumption function, undermining the case for Keynesian macroeconomic policies. This paper shows how contemporary feminist theory provides post-Keynesians with a compelling response to Coddington. It uses the concept of gender as an effect of heteronormativity to integrate 'the household', the institut…
Imagining Economics Otherwise
Engendering Feudalism
How do we understand economic activity outside capitalist wage relationships? Capitalocentric analyses assign it to the local or cultural. This replicates previous approaches that assigned such activity to the “feudal.” Drawing on collaboration with Serap Kayatekin, this paper urges renewed attention to feudal subjectivity, as a way to work through this problematic and to build a communal politics
Re/membering Twenty Years of Rethinking Marxism
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Rethinking Marxism's publication, the founding and current editors of the journal (Jack Amariglio and David F. Ruccio, respectively) take stock of the past two decades in an interview conducted by three members of the editorial collective. From the naming of the journal to its origins at the University of Massachusetts, from the journal as a site of collective praxis to the journal as a commodity, from the jou…
The Diaspora at Home
The concept of diaspora can be fruitfully used to open up economic analysis. Unlike the current ways in which the terms immigrant, emigrant, and migrant have entered economics, the term diaspora shows promise in pushing us toward richer analyses of economic subjectivity. In addition, it opens the possibility for a more critical interrogation of the `international' and `national' than is currently available within mainstream economic analysis. How…
Transition, Telos, and Taxonomy
Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg's Transition and Development in India provides a thorough critical discussion of Marxist debates about transition and development. Taking on board recent poststructuralist and postcolonial critiques, it builds an innovative alternative, using the concept of class sets, which avoids assuming that a society is dominated by a single mode of production. But while their approach successfully meets critiques abo…
Class analysis and politics
This review essay highlights postmodern Marxism's ability to address issues of social change without modernism, Eurocentrism, telos, and essentialism. By raising questions about how we define the distinctions between modes of production and how we theorize spaces of transformative hope, the essay suggests that postmodern Marxist scholarship can go still further. Focusing on communal subject formation, the essay suggests that the tools for address…
A through-time framework for producer households
Taking as its central case urban producer households of a kind widely found in the third world, this paper shows that the through-time analyses of material activities developed by Marxist and Post Keynesian theorists are as applicable to ‘reproductive’ household activities as they are to market-directed production. Drawing on and extending work by Marxist feminist theorists, it develops an internal critique of the productive–reproductive divide b…
Recovering feudal subjectivities
Poststructuralism and postmodernism have helped Marxist political economy criticize and transform its determinism and teleology in order to avoid reliance on modernist categories. However, the question of (class) subjectivity, especially in noncapitalist exploitative contexts, has remained underdeveloped. This paper fills this theoretical gap, conceptualizing feudal class subjectivity. Adapting Gramsci's notion of hegemony, we propose that notion…
On history, love, and politics
Engendering Feudalism
How do we understand economic activity outside capitalist wage relationships? Capitalocentric analyses assign it to the local or cultural. This replicates previous approaches that assigned such activity to the “feudal.” Drawing on collaboration with Serap Kayatekin, this paper urges renewed attention to feudal subjectivity, as a way to work through this problematic and to build a communal politics
Recovering feudal subjectivities
Poststructuralism and postmodernism have helped Marxist political economy criticize and transform its determinism and teleology in order to avoid reliance on modernist categories. However, the question of (class) subjectivity, especially in noncapitalist exploitative contexts, has remained underdeveloped. This paper fills this theoretical gap, conceptualizing feudal class subjectivity. Adapting Gramsci's notion of hegemony, we propose that notion…
Transition, Telos, and Taxonomy
Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg's Transition and Development in India provides a thorough critical discussion of Marxist debates about transition and development. Taking on board recent poststructuralist and postcolonial critiques, it builds an innovative alternative, using the concept of class sets, which avoids assuming that a society is dominated by a single mode of production. But while their approach successfully meets critiques abo…
A through-time framework for producer households
Taking as its central case urban producer households of a kind widely found in the third world, this paper shows that the through-time analyses of material activities developed by Marxist and Post Keynesian theorists are as applicable to ‘reproductive’ household activities as they are to market-directed production. Drawing on and extending work by Marxist feminist theorists, it develops an internal critique of the productive–reproductive divide b…
On history, love, and politics
The Diaspora at Home
The concept of diaspora can be fruitfully used to open up economic analysis. Unlike the current ways in which the terms immigrant, emigrant, and migrant have entered economics, the term diaspora shows promise in pushing us toward richer analyses of economic subjectivity. In addition, it opens the possibility for a more critical interrogation of the `international' and `national' than is currently available within mainstream economic analysis. How…
On history, love, and politics
Recovering feudal subjectivities
Poststructuralism and postmodernism have helped Marxist political economy criticize and transform its determinism and teleology in order to avoid reliance on modernist categories. However, the question of (class) subjectivity, especially in noncapitalist exploitative contexts, has remained underdeveloped. This paper fills this theoretical gap, conceptualizing feudal class subjectivity. Adapting Gramsci's notion of hegemony, we propose that notion…
Class analysis and politics
This review essay highlights postmodern Marxism's ability to address issues of social change without modernism, Eurocentrism, telos, and essentialism. By raising questions about how we define the distinctions between modes of production and how we theorize spaces of transformative hope, the essay suggests that postmodern Marxist scholarship can go still further. Focusing on communal subject formation, the essay suggests that the tools for address…
A through-time framework for producer households
Taking as its central case urban producer households of a kind widely found in the third world, this paper shows that the through-time analyses of material activities developed by Marxist and Post Keynesian theorists are as applicable to ‘reproductive’ household activities as they are to market-directed production. Drawing on and extending work by Marxist feminist theorists, it develops an internal critique of the productive–reproductive divide b…
Transition, Telos, and Taxonomy
Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg's Transition and Development in India provides a thorough critical discussion of Marxist debates about transition and development. Taking on board recent poststructuralist and postcolonial critiques, it builds an innovative alternative, using the concept of class sets, which avoids assuming that a society is dominated by a single mode of production. But while their approach successfully meets critiques abo…
The Diaspora at Home
The concept of diaspora can be fruitfully used to open up economic analysis. Unlike the current ways in which the terms immigrant, emigrant, and migrant have entered economics, the term diaspora shows promise in pushing us toward richer analyses of economic subjectivity. In addition, it opens the possibility for a more critical interrogation of the `international' and `national' than is currently available within mainstream economic analysis. How…
Re/membering Twenty Years of Rethinking Marxism
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Rethinking Marxism's publication, the founding and current editors of the journal (Jack Amariglio and David F. Ruccio, respectively) take stock of the past two decades in an interview conducted by three members of the editorial collective. From the naming of the journal to its origins at the University of Massachusetts, from the journal as a site of collective praxis to the journal as a commodity, from the jou…
Gender and the stability of consumption
Alan Coddington critiques post-Keynesians for their use of fundamental uncertainty. He argues that fundamental uncertainty should also affect the consumption function, undermining the case for Keynesian macroeconomic policies. This paper shows how contemporary feminist theory provides post-Keynesians with a compelling response to Coddington. It uses the concept of gender as an effect of heteronormativity to integrate 'the household', the institut…
Imagining Economics Otherwise
Engendering Feudalism
How do we understand economic activity outside capitalist wage relationships? Capitalocentric analyses assign it to the local or cultural. This replicates previous approaches that assigned such activity to the “feudal.” Drawing on collaboration with Serap Kayatekin, this paper urges renewed attention to feudal subjectivity, as a way to work through this problematic and to build a communal politics
Response
Sandro Mezzadra's “The Topicality of Prehistory: A New Reading of Marx's Analysis of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’” foregrounds the problematic of political subjectivity at the heart of discussions of capitalism's relation to its origins. His essay resituates the problematic of primitive accumulation within the context of the constitution of capitalist wage labor. In this context, Mezzadra warns against romanticizing subaltern agency. This r…
Postcolonialism Meets Economics
Revisiting Transition
The diverse economies framework developed by Gibson-Graham, Resnick and Wolff, and members of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis marks an important break from classical Marxism. It addresses the teleology and economic determinism of previous frameworks by breaking from capitalocentrism, and thus has the potential to avoid the developmental modernism of previous Marxist frameworks. However, this chapter argues that the diverse econom…
Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)