Videos by Tania Rispoli
The current pandemic has set in relief the longstanding “crisis of care” resulting from the under... more The current pandemic has set in relief the longstanding “crisis of care” resulting from the undervaluing of the vast amounts of time, labor, and expertise needed to sustain our societies, our cultures, and our environments. Universal basic income (UBI) has a long history and has been implemented in limited forms in various contexts. This event brings together five experts from different perspectives to stage an open discussion about the possibilities for UBI as a more enduring solution to the crisis of care.
Participants:
Richard Itaman (Department of International Development, King’s College London)
Dirk Philipsen (Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University)
Tania Rispoli (Department of Romance Studies, Duke University)
Felwine Sarr (Department of Romance Studies & GSF, Duke University)
Kathi Weeks (Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University)
Moderator:
Jocelyn Olcott (Department of History & GSF, Duke University) 19 views
Books by Tania Rispoli
Peer-Reviewed Articles by Tania Rispoli
Philosophy and Public Issues, 2021
Contribution to the special issue Capitalism and Critical Theory (edited by Giorgio Fazio), Book ... more Contribution to the special issue Capitalism and Critical Theory (edited by Giorgio Fazio), Book Symposium: On Nancy Fraser – Rahel Jaeggy, Capitalism. A Conversation in Critical Theory
Feminist Studies, 2020
This essay focuses on the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. We show that neoliberalizatio... more This essay focuses on the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. We show that neoliberalization and the dismantling of community health services played a major role in turning Northern Italy into a shattered “lazaret”. Moreover, considering Italian activists’ responses to the pandemic, we suggest that they point toward a reinvention of reproduction along two main axes. First, they bring feminist insights to bear with the ecological crisis that created the conditions for COVID-19. In so doing, they direct attention to reproduction as a multidimensional matrix of power relations involving both social and ecological aspects. Second, activists have strived to build infrastructures for the redistribution of care from below. Creating and developing mutual aid networks, activist groups designed a feminist logistics, that is central for creating alternatives to prevalent neoliberal models of circulating care whose flaws have fully emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Book Chapters by Tania Rispoli
Ricominciare ogni volta di nuovo. Scritti in onore di Augusto Illuminati, 2022
Platforms Have the Power… and People Can Take It, 2022
Pensare la pandemia (Into the Black Box), 2020
Conflitti. Filosofia e Politica, 2020
The Radical Machiavelli, 2015
Translations by Tania Rispoli
Come cambia la politica una volta che il capitalismo si organizza sempre più attraverso operazion... more Come cambia la politica una volta che il capitalismo si organizza sempre più attraverso operazioni estrattive, finanziarie e logistiche? In questo volume Sandro Mezzadra e Brett Neilson mostrano come il capitale oggi estrae e sfrutta risorse naturali, lavoro, dati e culture; riorganizza la logistica delle relazioni tra persone, proprietà e merci; valorizza, tramite la finanza, tutti gli ambiti della vita economica e sociale. Quando il capitale aggregato, tramite l’insieme delle sue operazioni, diventa attore politico diretto si modificano anche i rapporti di mediazione statale e globale. Mezzadra e Neilson da una parte ricostruiscono la genealogia dello Stato moderno che fin dai suoi albori, rispondendo a logiche “imperiali”, ha intrecciato razzismo e colonialismo. Dall’altra mostrano quali siano gli esiti del neoliberalismo e della globalizzazione sulla “forma Stato”, dedicando particolare attenzione alla crisi del welfare state e alla crisi finanziaria del 2008. Le molte lotte che in tutto il mondo stanno contestando l’assetto sociale e politico del capitalismo prefigurano un “dualismo di potere” che nel guardare oltre lo Stato rivendica una politica basata su istituzioni del comune.
Collectively Edited Books by Tania Rispoli
Comunismo necessario, 2020
Con un'intervista a Silvia Federici di Marina Montanelli e Tania Rispoli
Talks by Tania Rispoli
Final conference of the annual project "Visualizing Care" funded by Duke Humanities Unbounded, Du... more Final conference of the annual project "Visualizing Care" funded by Duke Humanities Unbounded, Duke Bass Connections and the Office of Global Affaires.
15th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop at Duke University
In a society that promotes relentless performance and at the same time undervalues “essential” la... more In a society that promotes relentless performance and at the same time undervalues “essential” labor, while imposing a 24/7 working time, this panel set out to explore what are the alternatives. From self-design in the era of automation to universal basic income (UBI) to the resistance of indigenous communities, the panelists looked for concrete utopias beyond or within work ethics and capitalism.
Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Helen Hester, Associate Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics, University of West London
Melanie Yazzie, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and American Studies, University of New Mexico
Moderated by Tania Rispoli, PhD candidate in Romance Studies, Duke University and Jocelyn Olcott, Professor of History, International Comparative Studies, and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University
Sponsored by the Revaluing Care in the Global Economy Lab at Duke University
Recorded December 2, 2021.
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Videos by Tania Rispoli
Participants:
Richard Itaman (Department of International Development, King’s College London)
Dirk Philipsen (Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University)
Tania Rispoli (Department of Romance Studies, Duke University)
Felwine Sarr (Department of Romance Studies & GSF, Duke University)
Kathi Weeks (Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University)
Moderator:
Jocelyn Olcott (Department of History & GSF, Duke University)
Books by Tania Rispoli
Peer-Reviewed Articles by Tania Rispoli
Book Chapters by Tania Rispoli
Translations by Tania Rispoli
Collectively Edited Books by Tania Rispoli
Talks by Tania Rispoli
Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Helen Hester, Associate Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics, University of West London
Melanie Yazzie, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and American Studies, University of New Mexico
Moderated by Tania Rispoli, PhD candidate in Romance Studies, Duke University and Jocelyn Olcott, Professor of History, International Comparative Studies, and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University
Sponsored by the Revaluing Care in the Global Economy Lab at Duke University
Recorded December 2, 2021.
Participants:
Richard Itaman (Department of International Development, King’s College London)
Dirk Philipsen (Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University)
Tania Rispoli (Department of Romance Studies, Duke University)
Felwine Sarr (Department of Romance Studies & GSF, Duke University)
Kathi Weeks (Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University)
Moderator:
Jocelyn Olcott (Department of History & GSF, Duke University)
Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Helen Hester, Associate Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics, University of West London
Melanie Yazzie, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and American Studies, University of New Mexico
Moderated by Tania Rispoli, PhD candidate in Romance Studies, Duke University and Jocelyn Olcott, Professor of History, International Comparative Studies, and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University
Sponsored by the Revaluing Care in the Global Economy Lab at Duke University
Recorded December 2, 2021.
"Queering Communities of Care" launches a series of conversations and accompanying exhibits in which we invite artists, activists, and academics to help us explore these questions. Devynn Emory and Gabriel Garcia Roman will consider how we envision care beyond cis/heteronormative norms and how artistic practices help to trouble the problems of queering care and creating new networks and kinships.