Building as Body: A Handbook for Investigating the Workplace Manual Labours introduce their Building as Body handbook, launched at Nottingham Contemporary on 10 November 2018. Building as Body: A Handbook for Investigating the Workplace, developed following our residency at Nottingham Contemporary where we worked with staff to explore the architecture of the workplace. Building as Body looks into the ways in which buildings… Read More
SPECIAL ISSUE | Historical Materialism Historical Materialism, Volume 24, Issue 2 (2016) The 2011 Historical Materialism Conference in London saw the launch of a Marxist-Feminist set of panels. This issue is inspired by the success of those panels, and the remarkably sustained interest in reviving and moving beyond older debates and discussions. … Read More
BOOK | Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class Re-centring Oppression | Tithi Bhattacharya How do child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality affect our lives under capitalism? This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book… Read More
JOURNAL ARTICLE | The Art of Social Reproduction | Victoria Horne Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 15 no. 2 (August 2016): 179-202. This article considers how the museum produces knowledge about the past and present of feminist politics through its framing of marginal, activist artworks that have engaged the sphere of social reproduction or care labour. It is contended that neoliberalism’s assault on social… Read More
BOOK | Feminism and Art History Now | Lara Perry & Victoria Horne To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions, and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art historians? The significant new research gathered here engages with the rich inheritance of feminist historiography since around 1970, and considers how to maintain the forcefulness of its critique while addressing contemporary political struggles. Taking… Read More
SPECIAL ISSUE | Viewpoint Magazine ISSUE 5 | Social Reproduction INTRODUCTION Asad Haider and Salar Mohandesi | Making a Living Today, amidst a changed political and class landscape, strategy should take precedence over fidelity to the received canon. The activities of social reproduction remain the field of powerful class antagonisms.… Read More
