Room Number: TRS 1-075
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Chair: Lara El Mekkawi (U Waterloo)
Speakers:
Jack Davies (U California Santa Cruz), “The Rupture of Capital: An Intellectual History of the Commons Today”
Liberty Muchativugwa Hove (North-West U), “Phoenixes of splendour from the ashes of imperialism: Rupture and suture as modes of literary representation in Magona, Ngugi and Soyinka”
Vandana Shankar Saxena (U Malaya), “Uneven Terrains: Land, memory, and capitalism on the peripheries”
Paper Summaries:
Jack Davies (U California Santa Cruz), “The Rupture of Capital: An Intellectual History of the Commons Today”
This paper attempts a critical intellectual history of remarkable salience of the commons, particularly since 1990, in our analysis of global capitalism, settler colonialism, and financialization. It historicizes and reinterprets this tendency as a fascination with the possibility of transition: with the rupture not of the commons, but capital.
Liberty Muchativugwa Hove (North-West U), “Phoenixes of splendour from the ashes of imperialism: Rupture and suture as modes of literary representation in Magona, Ngugi and Soyinka”
I examine how Magona, Ngugi and Soyinka engage with profound disruptions of shared spaces, routines and economies. Reading the three texts all produced in 2021, one encounters the dramatic, the ironic, the satiric, the allegoric and voyeuristic styles where each writer develops rupture and suture as modes of literary representation.
Vandana Shankar Saxena (U Malaya), “Uneven Terrains: Land, memory, and capitalism on the peripheries”
Through the discussion of Between Lives, the last novel written by Malaysia’s prominent novelist, K.S. Maniam, the paper explores the history of Malaysia’s development over the course of the last twentieth century as it integrated itself within the structures of the world capitalist system and the human and environmental cost such progress entailed.