Nigeria: Recent Struggles Against Enclosure
Sunday, October 19th
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street, 7pm
Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis will discuss the long struggle people in the Niger Delta have made against the international oil companiesʼ destruction of their land, their environment, and their livelihood, placing these developments in the context of the ʽpeak oilʼ debate and the fate of the communal lands in Africa. Organized by Team Colors Collective.
About the speakers:
George Caffentzis is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. He has edited with the Collective two books published by Auton omedia: "Midnight Oil: Work, Energy War, 1973-1992" and "Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles of the Fourth World War."
Silvia Federici is a scholar and an activist. She has taught Philosophy and Women's Studies at several American universities and at the University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria). From 1987 to 2005 she has taught Political Philosophy and International Studies at Hofstra University (in Hempstead, New York). She is now Emeritus Professor at Hofstra University. She has been active in the feminist movement, the moveme nt against the death penalty and the anti-globalization movement. In 1972 she was a co-founder of the International Feminist Collective; From 1973 to 1977 she was active in the international campaign for Wages for Housework and a founder of the New York Wages For Housework Committee. Since 1990 she has been a member and co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, an organization which documents the impact of globalization and structural adjustment policies on the African educational systems, and in particular on the condition of African students and academics. Between 1995 and 2002 she was a co-founder and member of the Radical Philosophy Association Anti-Death Pena lty Project. She has written many essays on culture, education, feminist theory, the international feminist movement, and the impact of globalization on the social position of women and education internationally. She recently published "Caliban and the Witch. Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation" (New York: Autonomedia, 2004).
For more information on Team Colors Collective:
http://www.warmachines.info
