[Englecturers] Fwd: Bio-power and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor

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>Hi All,


Susan Zieger has requested that I forward this to you all.

Best,

Chris


>"Bio-power and the New International Division of Reproductive
>Labor"
>
>Tuesday, March 8 at 4 p.m. in 1500 Humanities
>
>Abstract: Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" alerted
>critical theorists to the new international division of labor
>by offering an immanent critique of Michel Foucault's and
>Gilles Deleuze's theories of power.  However, when she
>elaborated on the figures of the superexploited within and
>outside this international division, she turned back to an
>earlier itinerary of muting in the colonial archives instead
>of staying with  contemporary capitalist development in the
>South.  This paper evaluates Spivak's critique of Foucault
>and her claims about the relations between his analytics of
>micro-power and the Marxist concept of ideology by examining
>the viability of his account of bio-power as an analytical
>framework for understanding the transnational traffic in
>domestic labor in hyperdeveloping Southeast Asia.
>
>Pheng Cheah (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley) is the author of Spectral
>Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial
>Literatures of Liberation (Columbia, 2003) and co-editor with
>Bruce Robbins of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond
>the Nation (Minnesota, 1998). In addition to being a
>formidable thinker, Pheng is an engaging speaker, and this
>talk promises to be excellent.