On the biopolitics of primitive accumulation: housewifisation in the international political economy

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This project is an investigation of capital, gender, and nature, which aims to develop an originaltheoretical framework organised around the concept of 'housewifisation' as part of a distinctlyecofeminist theory of international political economy (IPE). The main contribution of the work willbe to advance knowledge and possibilities for radical praxis in the study of IPE through a form ofimmanent critique informed by taking seriously feminist, postcolonial and environmentalistscholarship and activism. I will synthesise different insights from a range of perspectives into aholistic theory of ecofeminist IPE, which will retain the materialist sensibilities of more orthodoxMarxist approaches yet transcend the limitations of single-handed foci on wage-labour andexploitation in favour of an analysis of the international political economy in terms of a unifiedprocess of socio-ecological re/production