Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics

Christin Bernhold will be there in person, and Prof. Benjamin Selwyn will join us online from the United Kingdom. Christin Bernhold is a Professor of Economic and Political Geography, specializing in Bioeconomy and Sustainable Change. Benjamin Selwyn is Professor of International Development and International Relations at the University of Sussex.

Selwyn and Bernhold argue that mainstream global value chain analysis hides the capitalist relations behind production, and they propose capitalist value chains to bring labour exploitation, the appropriation of nature and geopolitics into the core of the analysis. They treat chains as historically specific configurations of international class relations that intensify exploitation and ecological destruction, and argue for looking at single firms and chains as part of the wider system of accumulation they serve.

The book talk will be moderated by Sana Ahmad, Research Associate at the Weizenbaum Institute.

The registration link will follow soon.