#3460. From democracy at others’ expense to externalization at democracy’s expense: Property-based personhood and citizenship struggles in organized and flexible capitalism

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Abstract:
This contribution investigates the anthropological foundations of European democracies’ continuous entanglement with economic and military expansionism. It is suggested that modern European history can be interpreted as a process of the ‘generalization of avoidance’, in which such abstract, property-based forms of personhood came to be a model for the figures of market participant. This regime has effected a broad restructuring of the social as a unified field of competition in which new hierarchies and inequalities materialize in global chains of appropriation, causing a ‘dividual’ fragmentation of property-based personhood and generating calls for responsible citizenship as an inherent counter-movement. In conclusion, it is suggested that anthropologists have much to contribute to investigating the possibility of democratic, post-capitalist ‘anthropologies of degrowth’.
Keywords:
capitalism; degrowth; democracy; dividualization; doxic anthropologies; growth regimes; Personhood; subjectivation

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