Answering the Call: Disrupting the Logics of Capitalism Through Indigenous Economies

Authors

Madeline Jaye Bass, MOVES European Joint Doctorate; University of Kent at Canterbury, Freie Universität BerlinFollow

Keywords

capitalism, indigenous economics, Oromo, decolonization

Document Type

Commentary

Abstract

Capitalism, racialism, and indigenous exploitation are deeply entangled practices. In their implementation, they each rely on forms of extraction and subjugation with long-lasting impacts. Denise Ferreira da Silva uses a Black feminist practice of “reading” in order to explicate the ways lives are valued and lost within this pursuit of global capital. Despite overwhelming extraction, looking closely and reading into Indigenous lifeways and organizing practices encourages the pursuit of “otherwise worlds.” This essay uses a close reading of da Silva’s chapter on global capital, and the larger collection it comes from, as a way of exploring the economic practices of the Oromo people. By operationalizing the review and putting key concepts in action, the processes of both exploitation and pathways against this harm are elucidated.

Recommended Citation

Bass, Madeline Jaye (2022) "Answering the Call: Disrupting the Logics of Capitalism Through Indigenous Economies," Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis: Vol. 1: Iss. 2, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54718/OCVB5201
Available at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol1/iss2/7