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Silvia Federici
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Background
Federici was born in Parma, Italy, in 1942.NEWS, Kisner, Jordan, 17 February 2021, The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew., en-US, The New York Times,weblink 21 February 2021, 0362-4331, She moved to the US in 1967 to study for a PhD in philosophy at the University at Buffalo"Silvia Federici, On capitalism, colonialism, women and food politics" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011235427weblink |date=2017-10-11 }}, interview by Max Haiven, Politics and Culture, 2009, Issue 2. with support from a Fulbright scholarship. She taught at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, and was Associate Professor and later Professor of Political Philosophy and International Studies at New College of Hofstra University.She was co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, and an organizer with the wages for housework campaign. In 1973, she helped start Wages for Housework groups in the US. In 1975 she published Wages Against Housework, the book most commonly associated with the wages for housework movement.WEB,weblink Permanent Reproductive Crisis: An Interview with Silvia Federici, March 2013, Meta Mute, Mute, Vishmidt, Marina, She also co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA), and was involved with the Midnight Notes Collective. In 1995, she co-founded the Radical Philosophy Association (RPA) anti-death penalty project.Federici lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her partner George Caffentzis.In March 2022, Federici was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.WEB, Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, 17 March 2022, Specter Journal,weblink 31 March 2022,Scholarly contributions
Federici's best known work, (Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation), expands on the work of Leopoldina Fortunati investigating the reasons for the witch huntsNEWS,weblink January 2018 (Volume 69, Number 8) {{!, The Editors {{!}} Monthly Review |date=1 January 2018 |work=Monthly Review |access-date=28 January 2018 |language=en-US}}NEWS,weblink "Out of this World": How Mykki Blanco and i-D highlight Johannesburg's queer life - Highlander, Cervantes, Hugo, 22 January 2018, Highlander, 28 January 2018, en-US, NEWS,weblink Caliban et la sorcière: femmes, corps et accumulation primitive, Caliban and the Witch: Women, Bodies, and Primitive Accumulation, Duffau, Helene, Club de Mediapart, 28 January 2018, fr-FR, NEWS,weblink Le corps, terrain originel de l'exploitation des femmes, The body, the original terrain of the exploitation of women, Le Monde.fr, 9 July 2014, fr, 28 January 2018, of the early modern period, but giving a feminist interpretation. In it, she argues against the popular interpretation of Karl Marx's concept of primitive accumulation which is often viewed as a necessary precursor for capitalism. Instead, she posits that primitive accumulation is a fundamental characteristic of capitalism itselfâthat capitalism, in order to perpetuate itself, requires a constant infusion of expropriated capital.Federici connects this expropriation to women's unpaid labour, both connected to reproduction and otherwise, which she frames as a historical precondition to the rise of a capitalist economy predicated upon wage labor. Related to this, she outlines the historical struggle for the commons and the struggle for communalism. Instead of seeing capitalism as a liberatory defeat of feudalism, Federici interprets the ascent of capitalism as a reactionary move to subvert the rising tide of communalism and to retain the basic social contract.She situates the institutionalization of rape and prostitution, as well as the heretic and witch-hunt trials, burnings, and torture at the center of a methodical subjugation of women and appropriation of their labor. This is tied into colonial expropriation and provides a framework for understanding the work of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and other proxy institutions as engaging in a renewed cycle of primitive accumulation, by which everything held in commonâfrom water, to seeds, to our genetic codeâbecomes privatized in what amounts to a new round of enclosures.Publications
{{external links|section|date=February 2021}}Books
{{Feminist critique of economics sidebar}}- (1975) Wages Against Housework. Bristol: Published jointly by the Power of Women Collective and the Falling Wall Press. Link goes to full text of the book.
- (1984, with Leopoldina Fortunati) Il Grande Calibano: Storia del corpo sociale ribelle nella prima fase del capitale. Milan: Franco Angeli
- (2004) "Il Femminismo e il Movimento contro la guerra USA", in DeriveApprodi 24
- (2004) (Caliban and the Witch|Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation). Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia. Licensed online copy at the Internet Archive.
- (2012) Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, Brooklyn/Oakland: Common Notions/PM Press. Links to full text: epub,pdf
- (2018) Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons. Oakland, CA: Kairos/PM Press.
- (2018) Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women. Oakland, CA: PM Press
- (2020) Beyond the periphery of the skin: rethinking, remaking, reclaiming the body in contemporary capitalism. Oakland, CA: PM Press
- (2021) Patriarchy of The Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism. Oakland, CA: PM Press.
As editor
- (1995) (ed.) Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others". Westport, CT, and London: Praeger.
- (2000) (ed.) A Thousand Flowers: Structural Adjustment and the Struggle for Education in Africa. Africa World Press.
- (2000) (eds.) African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa. Westport, CT, and London: Praeger.
Articles
Free online access:- Feminism and the Politics of the CommonsThe Commoner, 2011
- On capitalism, colonialism, women and food politics, Politics and Culture 2009 (2) - Special Issue on Food (&) Sovereignty {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011235427weblink |date=2017-10-11 }}
- Witch-Hunting, Globalization, and Feminist Solidarity in Africa Today, The Commoner, 2008
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090129174238weblink">Precarious Labour: A Feminist Viewpoint, 2008
- Notes on the eduâfactory and Cognitive Capitalism, 2007 (with George Caffentzis)
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070928000539weblink">Theses on Mass Worker and Social Capital (1972, with Mario Montano)
- War, Globalization and Reproduction
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060528220646weblink">Mormons in space (with George Caffentzis)
- Why Feminists Should Oppose Capital Punishment
- Donne, Globalizzazione e Movimento Internazionale delle Donne
- The great Caliban:The struggle against the rebel body, from Caliban & the Witch
- All the World Needs a Jolt: Social Movements and Political Crisis in Medieval Europe, from Caliban & the Witch
- The Debt Crisis, Africa and the New Enclosures
- The War in Yugoslavia. On Whom the Bombs are Falling? (1999, with Massimo De Angelis)
- "Viet Cong Philosophy: Tran Duc Thao". Telos 06 (Fall 1970). New York: Telos Press
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060505204507weblink">Development and Underdevelopment in Nigeria (1985)
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150910045010weblink">On Elder Care
Notes and references
{{reflist|30em}}External links
- Silvia Federici page at Generation Online
- Silvia Federici page at LibCom
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090416180149weblink">Midnight Notes Collective
- Silvia Federici Papers - Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
- Tribute to Silvia Federici in The Commoner
- Audio from a talk entitled "The Body, Capitalist Accumulation And The Accumulation Of Labour Power" by Silvia Federici for Bristol Radical History Group
- "Academic Freedom and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global University" by Silvia Federici at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. 19 September 2013.
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