Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (KAIROS)

In this edited collection of work spanning more than 20 years, Silvia Federici provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues in contemporary thinking on this subject. Drawing on rich historical research, she maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the “new enclosures” at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation. Considering the commons from a feminist perspective, this collection argues that women and reproductive work are crucial to both our economic survival and the construction of a world free from the capitalist hierarchies. Federici is clear that the commons should not be understood as happy islands in a sea of exploitative relations—but rather autonomous spaces from which to challenge the existing organization of life and labor.

• Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
• Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (KAIROS)
• Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (Common Notions)
• Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
• Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
• A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Forerunners: Ideas First)
• Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
• Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance (Spectre)
• Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Heretical Thought)
• Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (Mapping Social Reproduction Theory)