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PANEL 4: Fostering and Sustaining Anti-Capitalist Solidarities

Sunday, June 28, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Presentation

Regina Langhout (USA), David Fryer (Aus), Garth Stevens (SA), Thomas Teo (Canada), Ignacio Dobles (Costa Rica)


Presentation information

30 mins introduction, 60 min Q&A


Presenter(s)

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Professor David Fryer
University of Queensland

Panel 4 - Fostering and Sustaining Anti-Capitalist Solidarities

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Invited abstract

Capitalism is the dominant politico-economic force organising our societies and cultures and impacting on systems, communities and subjects. Capital accumulation, reproduction of the means of production, limitless resource extraction and consumption, which characterise neoliberal capitalism, are systematically destroying the environment and threatening the future of the planet. Toxic neoliberal capitalist ideas and practices are colonising family, community, schools, health care, public space and the assumptive world. Capitalism simultaneously produces short-term benefits for many even whilst it subjugates, controls and re-makes people, according to its needs, in its depowering and monetising image. This panel will draw upon critique of psychology, critical theory and the wider humanities, arts and social sciences to illuminate both pathologising implications of capitalism for the making and unmaking of the contemporary neoliberal subject and also the capacity of the neoliberal subject for resistance. More specifically, panel members will describe: the (re)constitution of the compliant productive neoliberal subject to reproduce the human means of production needed by neoliberal capitalist employers and State; the centrality of violence in the making of western modernity and the constitution of subjects through violence in the era of late capital: the reappearance of white supremacy and its consequences for contemporary migration; collaborative work with 9-12-year-old children through which police and immigration enforcement is held accountable; and the challenges of community experiences of precarity and dispossession for a decolonial psychology. More generally, in this symposium the widespread positioning of capitalism as inevitable through a powerfully constituted and evangelised nihilistic discourse that “there is no alternative”. is resisted. Rather, capitalism is positioned as contingent, societally constituted and so de-constitutable and re-constitutable through anti-capitalist solidarities.
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Ignazio Dobleso

Panel 4 - Fostering and Sustaining Anti-Capitalist Solidarities

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Professor Regina Langhout
University Of California, Santa Cruz

Panel 4 - Fostering and Sustaining Anti-Capitalist Solidarities

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Thomas Teo
York University in Toronto, Canada

Panel 4 - Fostering and Sustaining Anti-Capitalist Solidarities

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Prof Garth Stevens
Acting Dean: Faculty of Humanities
University of the Wiwatersrand

Panel 4 - Fostering and Sustaining Anti-Capitalist Solidarities

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Professor Linda Waimaire Nikora
University of Auckland

Panel 4 - Fostering and Sustaining Anti-Capitalist Solidarities

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Panel Chair

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David Fryer
University of Queensland


Panel Discussant

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Linda Waimaire Nikora
University of Auckland

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