| Title: |
Power and polycrisis: on the durability of Capitalism-patriarchy-Colonialism (CPC) |
| Authors: |
Kaiser, Birgit; Thiele, Kathrin; Jansen, Esther; Paterino, Arianna; Avelino, Flor; Wijsman, Katinka; ICON - Modern and Contemporary Literature; ICON - Gender Studies; Organisations and Sustainability; Planning Support Science; Gallarotti, Giulio |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Subject Terms: |
CPC; Capitalism (C); colonialism (C); patriarchy (P); polycrisis; Sociology and Political Science |
| Description: |
This paper is inspired by Jamaican cultural critic Sylvia Wynter who notes that contemporary times do not face a list of separate problems, but a ‘global problematique’. While these current socio-political, economic and ecological challenges are often referred to as ‘polycrisis’, this paper asks what the focus on crisis obfuscates and how instead a focus on power can help move beyond the emergency-exceptionalism of crisis-thinking. Our argument highlights how specifically the durable and interlocking effects of capitalist, patriarchal and (neo-)colonial power have to be analysed in conjunction. For these interlocking vectors of power, we propose the acronym ‘CPC’. |
| Document Type: |
book part |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2158-379X |
| Relation: |
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/482960 |
| Availability: |
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/482960 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.FABB7321 |
| Database: |
BASE |