TY - JOUR
T1 - Power and Polycrisis
T2 - On the Durability of Capitalism-Patriarchy-Colonialism
AU - Kaiser, Birgit
AU - Thiele, Kathrin
AU - Jansen, Esther
AU - Paterino, Arianna
AU - Avelino, Flor
AU - Wijsman, Katinka
PY - 2025/1/27
Y1 - 2025/1/27
N2 - This paper is inspired by Jamaican cultural critic Sylvia Wynter who notes that contemporary times do not face a list of separate problems, but a ‘global problematique’. While these current socio-political, economic and ecological challenges are often referred to as ‘polycrisis’, this paper asks what the focus on crisis obfuscates and how instead a focus on power can help move beyond the emergency-exceptionalism of crisis-thinking. Our argument highlights how specifically the durable and interlocking effects of capitalist, patriarchal and (neo-)colonial power have to be analysed in conjunction. For these interlocking vectors of power, we propose the acronym ‘CPC’.
AB - This paper is inspired by Jamaican cultural critic Sylvia Wynter who notes that contemporary times do not face a list of separate problems, but a ‘global problematique’. While these current socio-political, economic and ecological challenges are often referred to as ‘polycrisis’, this paper asks what the focus on crisis obfuscates and how instead a focus on power can help move beyond the emergency-exceptionalism of crisis-thinking. Our argument highlights how specifically the durable and interlocking effects of capitalist, patriarchal and (neo-)colonial power have to be analysed in conjunction. For these interlocking vectors of power, we propose the acronym ‘CPC’.
U2 - 10.1080/2158379X.2025.2453234
DO - 10.1080/2158379X.2025.2453234
M3 - Article
SN - 2158-379X
JO - Journal of Political Power
JF - Journal of Political Power
ER -