Abstract

This 1 hour session departs from works-in-progress that approach the issue of value from different angles. Based on pre-recorded presentations, we ask participants to think and reflect with us on recent advancements in studying value and valorization processes (e.g. from political ecology; vital materialism; green Marxism; decolonial scholarship) and how these ways of thinking about value, valorization, things and commodities can be beneficially incorporated into debates unfolding in CERN and beyond. Given Diverse Economies’ interest in post-development discourses, and in the notion of the pluriverse more recently, we would like to discuss the question to what extent the Marxian vocabulary around value with its manifold distinctions aimed to leverage an analysis of capital’s operations (necessary and surplus labor; exchange and use value; value production, appropriation and distribution; or more recently socially necessary labor time and socially necessary unpaid labor) can serve as the basis for thinking about, and practicing, diverse economies.

Ceren Özselcuk is moderating the session. After a small introduction, Ceren Özselcuk and Stephen Healy will kick-start the debate with their comments to the video presentations (embedded below), followed by a broader discussion with participants and reactions by Markus and Justin.