Posts Tagged ‘surplus population’

Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City

Zachary Levenson | May 17, 2022

I’ve just released a book with Oxford University Press (Global and Comparative Ethnography series) that seeks to provide micro-foundations for a properly dialectical reading of Antonio Gramsci. As it is typically understood, civil society is the private sphere beyond the purview of the state, [...]

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Relative surplus populations and the crises of contemporary capitalism

Nick Bernards | Susanne Soederberg | November 23, 2021

Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic increase in engagements with Marx’s concept of relative surplus populations (RSPs). The RSP describes the portion of the working-age population surplus to the immediate needs of capital for waged labour at any given place and time. Revived [...]

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