My co-edited volume with @jokubassalyga.bsky.social, “Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism: Gender, Race and Eurocentrism”, has just been published by @brisunipress.bsky.social. The book is included in the January sale with 50% off. (paperback forthcoming in 12 months). (1/6)

The volume features 18 contributions from figures such as Jairus Banaji, Silvia Federici, Marcel van der Linden, Peter Hudis, Alessandra Mezzadri, Andreas Bieler, Abigail B. Bakan, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Rohini Hensman and Sébastien Rioux. (2/6)

The book seeks to interrogate the conceptualization of capitalism with 3 objectives: 1️⃣ Accounting for the complexity of capitalism 2️⃣ Tracing its global emergence & consolidation 3️⃣ Exploring intersecting forms of oppression beyond reductive accounts of class exploitation & emancipation (3/6)

To achieve these aims, it 🔹 Shows how capitalist development is shaped by contradictory processes of homogenization & differentiation 🔹 Challenges the theoretical separation of production and circulation 🔹 Re-examines value & surplus-value beyond the focus on the “hidden abode of production” (4/6)

🔹 Deconstructs internalist accounts that locate the origins of capitalism exclusively in Europe that later spread to the rest of the world 🔹 Foregrounds the constitutive role of colonial violence, dispossession, and domination—historical and contemporary—in shaping capitalist trajectories (5/6)

🔹 Interrogates exploitation beyond the paradigm of “free” wage labour 🔹 Integrates class, race & gender into a unified understanding of the mode of production 🔹 Articulates a broader political vision of emancipation that encompasses all those subordinated by capitalist relations. (6/6)