Responding and calling: for collaboration and/in counter-accounting for social justice

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Notes

1. Many thanks to Taylor Nelms for organizing and curating this review forum. And many thanks to Kelly Dombroski, Drucilla K. Barker, and Zdravka Todorova for their very thoughtful engagements with my book.

2. Although we might not have exactly the same ancestors, Dombroski suggests that we might find intellectual kinship through J. K. Gibson-Graham, whose work is very important to her. Although I don’t engage Gibson-Graham in Debt to Society, I do discuss their work (1996) in my first book (see Joseph 2002, pp. 149–151).

3. Here we can talk about chattel slavery or the extension of capitalist processes into the so-called social factory, as theorized by Virno, Negri, and others in the Italian autonomist Marxist school, and, before and alongside them, the theorization by feminist scholars of the importance of affective labor and the labor of social reproduction in capitalist processes (see Kathi Weeks 2007 for one important review of some of the feminist contributions and Leopoldina Fortunati 2007 for another).

4. The phrase ‘differential vulnerability to debt’ is meant to recall Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s definition of racism as ‘state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death’ (Gilmore 2007, p. 28).