Cities After…Silvia Federici on Feminism, Communal Spaces, and Collective Memory

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[S02 E19] Silvia Federici on Feminism, Communal Spaces, and Collective Memory
This episode of Cities After… is a conversation between Prof. Robles-Durán and Silvia Federici, feminist activist and scholar, which took place at the New School in New York City. Silvia Federici has been shaking Marxist traditions to their core since the 1960s by posing critical questions about the role of women’s reproductive labor in the development of our human environment and social conditions under capitalism. In this conversation, Robles-Durán and Federici weave through Federici’s life and work in Italy, the US, Nigeria, and Latin America to explore major themes of feminism, class struggle, reproductive labor, colonialism, neoliberalism, and more. Federici’s work is concerned largely with the power of communal spaces and land, welfare rights, reproductive rights and the role of women in social movements, collective memory, and the right to the city.
Cities After... is a bi-weekly podcast about the future of cities; grounded in our daily urban struggles, it is part dystopian and part utopian. The intention is to entice civic imagination into action, because a more just and sustainable urban future is possible.
Miguel Robles-Durán is an urbanist with expertise in the design and analysis of complex urban systems and urban political-ecology. He is an associate professor of urbanism and director of the graduate urban programs at The New School / Parsons School of Design in New York City. Read his full bio on our website.
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About our guest: Silvia Federici is one of the most influential feminist thinkers of our times, a full time activist, scholar and teacher. In 1972, she was one of the co-founders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the Wages For Housework campaign internationally. In the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti-death penalty movement. She is one of the co-founders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, an organization dedicated to generating support for the struggles of students and teachers in Africa against the structural adjustment of African economies and educational systems. From 1987 to 2005 she taught international studies, women studies, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. All through these years she has written books and essays on philosophy and feminist theory, women’s history, education and culture, and more recently the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization and for a feminist reconstruction of the commons.
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[@cheri238]

GREAT DISCUSSION AGAIN TODAY. THANK YOU BOTH!!!!!♥️ Learn a lot from this channel. Thank you Professor Robles Duran & Sylvia Federici. Nice to learn about you today, Ms. Sylvia and your journeys in life.❤️

[@elizabethtravelsaroundDAworld]

Where is the city? Where is the city? Wow! I relate.

[@TheQeltar]

Did Federici reconsider her views on trans people?

[@DV-dt9sq]

I am listening this and wonder if Silvia is going to mention Marshall's Plan. How Italy was bought that way after the war to secure it doesn't go socialist way. Despite Italy was a fascist country in war it was given way mooooore financial support after it just to stop it turning to the left.

[@TheQeltar]

Not to mention Operation Gladio.

[@DV-dt9sq]

@@TheQeltar : Yes!