Abstract
In this paper, I critically engage from a feminist perspective with arguments from David Harvey’s Condition of Postmodernity. Using feminist insights into epistemology and ontology, I argue that Harvey’s is a totalizing theory, and as such, lacks the emancipatory value it claims to offer. I then engage with some feminist critiques of Harvey’s work, arguing that, while innovative, they are insufficient insofar as they fail to provide a critique of capitalism. Drawing on the work of feminist epistemologist Lorraine Code, I explore what a non-totalizing theory of capitalism might look like. I conclude by arguing the work of Gibson-Graham and Resnick and Wolff provide the most useful and emancipatory theoretical framework, one that is non-totalizing yet engages in a thorough critique of capitalism.
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Derickson, Kate Driscoll
(2009)
"Toward a Non-Totalizing Critique of Capitalism,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 50:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol50/iss1/1