Kryzys pandemiczny, walki o to, co wspólne i wyzwanie wynalezienia na nowo welfare

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Praktyka Teoretyczna journal, we have invited our long-lasting collaborators and comrades to reflect once again on the concept of the com-mon and it’s possible futures by posing the following questions: a) what is the most important aspect of the current struggles for the common?; b) what are the biggest challenges for the commonist politics of the future?; and c) where in the ongoing struggles do you see a potential for scaling-up and spreading organisation based on the com-mon? In his reply, Sandro Mezzadra draws our attention to contemporary struggles around welfare, which push us to reinvent such notions and institutions like public health or education beyond the private and the public.Z okazji 10 urodzin Praktyki Teoretycznej zaprosiliśmy naszych wieloletnich współpracowników i towarzyszy do wspólnego rozważenia przyszłości tego, co wspólne. Poprosiliśmy ich o zmierzenie się z następującymi pytaniami: a) co jest najważniejszym aspektem współczesnych walk o to, co wspólne?; b) jakie największe wyzwania stoją w przyszłości przed polityką tego, co wspólne?; c) gdzie w ramach toczonych walk wiedziecie potencjał na rozwijanie i poszerzanie organizacji opartej na tym, co wspólne? Mierząc się z powyższymi pytaniami Sandro Mezzadra zwraca uwagę na współczesne walki wokół welfare, które zmuszają nas do pomyślenia i stworzenia na nowo takich instytucji jak opieka zdrowotna czy edukacja poza podziałem na publiczne i prywatne

Confini, migrazioni, cittadinanza

La proliferazione dei confini, intesa come una loro scomposizione e ricomposizione, costituisce uno dei risultati piú immediati dei processi di globalizzazione; partendo da questa affermazione, l’autore riflette sulla nuova natura che i confini stanno assumendo, in particolare con riferimento ai movimenti migratori contemporanei, al loro aspetto di «turbolenza» e ai processi di trasformazione e ri-definizione della cittadinanza a questi connessi.The proliferation of boundaries, i.e. their constant fall and re-composition, is one of the most evident outcomes of globalisation. Setting off from this statement, the author explores the new nature that boundaries are assuming, with a particular reference to contemporary migratory flows, their «turbulent» aspects and associated processes of transformation and re-definition of citizenship

Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship

The article takes the lively discussion of citizenship in the 1990s as its point of departure, focusing in particular on the works by Étienne Balibar and Engin Isin. The author shows how the (illegal) migrant emerged as a paradigmatic figure in that discussion in the wake of the struggles of the sans-papiers in France and elsewhere in Europe. What characterizes the discussion of citizenship and migration since the end of the 1990s is an attempt to theoretically grasp the multifarious tensions between processes of deprivation and dispos- session on the one hand and migrants’ agency and even the autonomy of migration on the other hand. It is working within this field of tensions that many scholars focused their analysis on the blurring of the boundary between inclusion and exclusion, pointing to migrants’ capacity to open new spaces of citizenship. Borders – external as well as internal – came therefore to play an increasingly important role in the debates surrounding citizenship and migration. In the last section, the article discusses the ongoing conjuncture of crises, underscoring both the persistent predica- ment of migration to and in Europe and the crucial role of migrants in the building of coalitions for social justice

Intersectionality, Identity, and the Riddle of Class

In this essay I discuss a specific notion that has become particularly influential in framing the discussion of identity and identity politics – intersectionality. I show that the original formulation of that notion was crucially intertwined with debates on class and class politics. After shedding light on the “prehistory” of intersectionality in black feminism, I discuss the original formulations of the concept in the works of Kimberlé Crenshaw and Patricia Hill Collins. A focus on the notion of “oppression” as well as on the tensions between “irreducibility” and “simultaneity” of systems of oppression in intersectional writings leads me to examine some of the pitfalls of identity politics today. An attempt to rethink the notion of class in the light of intersectionality closes the essay.; En este ensayo analizo una noción específica que se ha convertido en algo especialmente influyente a la hora de enmarcar el debate sobre la identidad y las políticas de identidad: la interseccionalidad. Muestro que la formulación original de esa noción estaba estrechamente relacionada con los debates sobre la clase y la política de clases. Tras aclarar la "prehistoria" de la interseccionalidad en el feminismo negro, analizo las formulaciones originales del concepto en las obras de Kimberlé Crenshaw y Patricia Hill Collins. Un énfasis en la noción de "opresión" así como en las tensiones entre la "irreductibilidad" y la "simultaneidad" de los sistemas de opresión en los escritos interseccionales me lleva a examinar algunos de los escollos de la política de identidad en la actualidad. Un intento de repensar la noción de clase a la luz de la interseccionalidad cierra el ensayo

Co jest stawką mobilności pracy? Granice, migracje, współczesny kapitalizm

Prezentowany tekst rozpoczyna się od krótkiego omówienia kilku wpływowych badań na temat mobilności pracy w ramach historycznego i współczesnego kapitalizmu. Później, opierając się na ustaleniach z ostatniej książki autora, Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labour (napisanej razem z Brettem Neilsonem), przechodzi do namysłu nad znaczeniem upowszechnienia się granic w epoce globalizacji z perspektywy "późnego" kapitalizmu. W ostatniej części autor skupia się na podmiotowym wymiarze polityki migracji, dostarczając w tym kontekście wielu przykładów z różnych części świata (w tym z regionu Pacyfiku)

Debating Platform Capitalism

Peer Reviewe

Operations of Platforms. A Global Process in a Multipolar World

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has engendered a crisis of mobility whose multiple dimensions have affected the movement of people and “stuff,” border regimes and logistical supply chains, the daily life of people in many parts of the world and the organization of labor. In such a conjuncture, digital platforms have emerged as key devices to manage the crisis, in such diverse fields as communication, food delivery, and e-commerce. this chapter we analyze the operations of digital platforms, or maybe more precisely processes of platformization of capital and labor. Such processes are definitely global, they reshape economy, governance, and society across diverse geographical scales, while their impact is characterized by different degrees of heterogeneity. We start by fleshing out what we call the platform model, and by analyzing some of its implications for capital and labor. Then, following the call to “de-Westernize platform studies”, we discuss the challenges it raises, and we conclude with an analysis of the processe of platformization in China

(S)confinamenti

(S)confinamentiUna conversazione con Sandro Mezzadradi Serena Guarracin

Potenzialità dell'esercito industriale di riserva

The paper discusses a notion that figures in Karl Marx’s Capital and is often employed with respect to migration. What I have in mind is the notion of industrial reserve army. I start by discussing the critique of this notion developed by Yann Moulier Boutang in his book De l’Esclavage au salariat. I then emphasize the background of that critique, focusing on the fact that the concept of industrial reserve army is often employed to stig- matize migration. Nonetheless I ask whether other uses of the notion are possible. To this aim I turn to Marx’s Capital in order to demonstrate that his understanding of the industrial reserve army is flexible and nuanced. I focus in particular on his analysis of mobile and “nomadic” populations and I end by reflecting on the multiple shapes that the Marxian problematic takes in the present. The concept of “potential labor,” often employed in research reports of ILO in recent years, provides an important entry point in this respect