Alison Phipps: "Neo-feudalism, platform capitalism and the re-enclosure of women"

Departmental Seminar: 12/6/24
Professor Alison Phipps, Newcastle University
This paper builds on an understanding of sexual violence as a strategy of enclosure (Phipps 2023) and explores how women are re-enclosed in post?-neoliberal economies. Alongside hyper-extractive industries in the Global South with production models reliant on sexual violence, emergent modes of extraction in the Global North (communicative/platform capitalism) are highly sexually violent. The paper argues that these modalities shift the neoliberal capitalist incorporation and commodification of (some) women into more explicit and neo-feudal (Dean 2020) forms of servitude.
Bio
Alison Phipps is Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University and author of Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism. Her forthcoming book is entitled Personal Business: sexual violence in racial capitalism.