Sandro Mezzadra - Is Globalization Really Over?

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Is Globalization Really Over? Mutations of Capitalism in an Age of Pandemic and War. Sandro Mezzadra is one of Italy’s leading political thinkers. He teaches political theory at the University of Bologna and is an adjunct fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. His research concerns the intersections of Marxist, feminist and postcolonial theory, focusing on border regimes, extraction, logistics, migration, as well as tensions between the global and local dimensions of capitalism. He has been particularly active in the ”post-workerist” debates, being one of the founders of the media collective Euronomade. Mezzadra has a decades-long history of involvement with social movements, in recent years for example the sea rescue initiative Mare Jonio as well as its political platform, Operation Mediterranenan. Sandro Mezzadra’s books include Diritto di fuga. Migrazioni, cittadinanza, globalizzazione (2006), La condizione postcoloniale. Storia e politica nel presente globale (2008), Nei cantieri marxiani. Il soggetto e la sua produzione (2014; English edition In the Marxian Workshops, 2018) and Un mondo da guadagnare. Per una teoria politica del presente (2020). With Brett Neilson he is the author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (Duke University Press, 2013) and The Politics of Operations. Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019).