Articles by Nancy Fraser
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Behind Marx’s Hidden Abode
NLR 86, March-April 2014, pp. 55-72in
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
Behind exchange there lurks production, but what is more hidden still? The disavowed conditions of capital’s possibility—in reproduction, politics and nature—as sites for expanded anti-capitalist struggle.
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A Triple Movement?
NLR 81, May-June 2013, pp. 119-132in
Subjects: Social Theory
Why has the global economic crisis yet to produce programmatic alternatives for social transformation? Nancy Fraser argues that present struggles fall within an ambiguous triangle formed by the forces of commodification, social protection and emancipation.
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On Justice
NLR 74, March-April 2012, pp. 41-51in
Subjects: Philosophy , Social Theory
Conceptions of justice drawn from Plato to Rawls, explored through analysis of a powerful novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Who counts as a subject, and what strategies could enable those debarred from the sphere of justice to overturn their status?
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Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History
NLR 56, March-April 2009, pp. 97-117in
Subjects: Gender , Work under Modern Capitalism , World Economy and Globalization
Do feminism and neoliberalism share a secret affinity? Nancy Fraser on the co-option of gender politics by the ‘new spirit’ of post-Fordist capitalism, and subordination of its radical critique to a World Bank agenda. Might a neo-Keynesian shift offer prospects for socialist-feminist renewal?
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Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World
NLR 36, November-December 2005, pp. 69-88in
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
Theorists of political justice have long taken the nation-state to be the relevant unit for their proposals. Nancy Fraser argues that the time for this is past. The necessary interconnection between struggles for economic redistribution and social recognition now requires that issues of political representation be re-tabled at a global rather than national level—where decisions affecting the fate of all are increasingly taken, or not taken.
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Rethinking Recognition
NLR 3, May-June 2000, pp. 107-120in
Subjects: Social Theory
Has the liberating charge of struggles for recognition dissolved into pure identity politics? Do these have to sidestep inequalities of wealth and power? Not, Nancy Fraser contends, if recognition is understood as a question of social status rather than existential address.
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Heterosexism, Misrecognition and Capitalism: A Response to Judith Butler
NLR I/228, March-April 1998, pp. 140-149in
Subjects: Philosophy , Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory , Gender
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A Rejoinder to Iris Young
NLR I/223, May-June 1997, pp. 126-129in
Subjects: Philosophy , Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory , Gender
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From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a 'Post-Socialist' Age
NLR I/212, July-August 1995, pp. 68-93in
Subjects: Philosophy , Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory , Gender
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