Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism

Verges, Francoise

  • 出版商: Goldsmiths Press
  • 出版日期: 2024-12-10
  • 售價: $870
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 248
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1913380394
  • ISBN-13: 9781913380397
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商品描述

An antiracist theory of cleaning.

In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services--in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs. Through 38 short sections, she looks at the social relations that have made cleaning into drudgery and into a racialized, gendered, poorly paid job that is nevertheless necessary for any society to function. She concludes with the proposition of a feminist, decolonial, antiracist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist politics of cleaning. Or, simply put, of "decolonial cleaning."

To Vergès, the structural denial of the elemental needs of women of color (sanitary pads, access to water, and privacy for basic washing), and why these needs are considered insignificant and trivial, shows how racism and class war are gendered. By examining the banal, the trivial, and the elemental, the author addresses cleaning as a necessity rather than the maintenance of a consumerist lifestyle, a condition of basic care of the body and the mind that is considered with indifference by racial capitalism, white environmentalism, and even, too often, by humanitarian organizations. She argues that by building "life-affirming institutions," as Ruth Wilson Gilmore advocates, struggles against the whitening of cleaning create sites of freedom. "Decolonial cleaning" imagines cleaning as taking care of land, humans, plants, animals, and rivers, not seeking to discipline them or transform them into commodities or objects of conservation but cleaning as a practice dedicated to sustaining the living world.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一種反種族主義的清潔理論。在《讓世界乾淨:浪費的生命、浪費的環境與種族資本主義》中,Françoise Vergès 探討了浪費土地、身體和資源的種族與性別政治,以及有組織地剝奪乾淨水源、庇護所和健康服務的問題——換句話說,就是在種族界線上對基本需求的結構性否認。透過38個短篇章節,她檢視了使清潔工作變成苦差事的社會關係,這種工作被種族化、性別化,且工資低廉,然而對任何社會的運作卻是必要的。她以提出一種女性主義、去殖民、反種族主義、反父權和反資本主義的清潔政治作為結尾。簡而言之,就是「去殖民清潔」。

對於 Vergès 來說,對有色人種女性的基本需求(如衛生棉、用水的權利和基本洗浴的隱私)的結構性否認,以及為何這些需求被視為微不足道,顯示了種族主義和階級鬥爭是如何性別化的。透過檢視平凡、微不足道和基本的事物,作者將清潔視為一種必要,而非消費主義生活方式的維持,這是一種對身體和心靈的基本照顧,而這一點常常被種族資本主義、白人環保主義,甚至太多時候被人道主義組織所漠視。她主張,透過建立「肯定生命的機構」,正如 Ruth Wilson Gilmore 所倡導的,對清潔的去白化鬥爭創造了自由的空間。「去殖民清潔」想像清潔是一種對土地、人類、植物、動物和河流的照顧,而不是試圖去紀律化或將其轉變為商品或保護對象,而是將清潔視為一種致力於維持生存世界的實踐。

作者簡介

Françoise Vergès (Reunion Island-France) is currently Senior Fellow Researcher at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racialization, University College London. A co-founder of the collective "Decolonize the Arts" (2015-2020), she is the curator of decolonial visits in museums and L'Atelier, a workshop and public performance with artists and activists. She is interested in the racial fabrication of "premature death," the multiple practices of resistance and South-South circulations of theories and cultural forms. She writes books and articles on the afterlives of slavery and colonization, climate catastrophe and racial capitalocene, the impossible decolonization of the western museum, decolonial feminism, psychiatry, and the "post-museum." Her publications include: A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum (2024), A Decolonial Feminism (2021), The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (2020), and Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès, with Aimé Césaire (2020). She has written documentary films on Maryse Condé (2013) and Aimé Césaire (2011), and was a project advisor for documenta11 (2002) and the Triennale de Paris (2011).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Françoise Vergès(法屬留尼旺島)目前是倫敦大學學院莎拉·帕克·雷蒙德種族與種族化研究中心的高級研究員。她是「去殖民化藝術」集體的共同創辦人(2015-2020),並擔任博物館去殖民化參觀的策展人,以及與藝術家和活動家合作的工作坊和公共表演「L'Atelier」的策展人。她對「過早死亡」的種族構造、抵抗的多重實踐以及南南之間理論和文化形式的流通感興趣。她撰寫有關奴隸制和殖民化的後果、氣候災難和種族資本主義、無法去殖民化的西方博物館、去殖民化女性主義、精神病學以及「後博物館」的書籍和文章。她的出版作品包括:《絕對無序的計畫:去殖民化博物館》(2024年)、《去殖民化女性主義》(2021年)、《女性的子宮:種族、資本、女性主義》(2020年)以及《堅定的黑色:與Françoise Vergès的對話》,與艾梅·塞澤爾(Aimé Césaire)合著(2020年)。她曾為瑪麗絲·孔德(Maryse Condé,2013年)和艾梅·塞澤爾(Aimé Césaire,2011年)撰寫紀錄片,並擔任documenta11(2002年)和巴黎三年展(2011年)的項目顧問。