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Keywords: traductrices fictives, traduction culturelle, Madeleine Thien, « Lu, Reshaping », littérature anglo-québécoise migrante
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This article seeks to present a theoretical framework to interpret the evolution and practice of international law through systemic constraints and situational hazards related to the capitalist mode of production. More specifically, our argument is that in Capital, Marx greatly emphasized that the purpose of the capitalist mode of production is the generation of profits for the capitalist class. However, one of his most controversial theses is what Marx called the “law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall”, which, due to the historical modification of the organic composition of capital, results in steadily decreasing the rate of profit to a level insufficient in order to guarantee the accumulation of capital and the survival of capitalism. This law, however, is counterbalanced by “opposing influences” that result in the reverse effect of increasing this rate and maintaining it at a sufficient level in order to ensure the survival of capitalism. Even if this law is subject to controversy and will not be considered in this article, the opposing influences will constitute the core of its conceptual framework. This article divides the postwar period into four sub-periods that are characterized by different average rates of profit at the international level, and then proceeds to present a historical interpretation through which we will put in correlation and analyze the interrelation between two different historical backgrounds (the evolution of rates of profit and of international law). We will explore whether international law was influenced by the evolution of rates of profit, and as such created institutions or practices whose objective is to favour the opposing influences to the decrease of rates of profit.
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Social relations in pré-colonial malay society : Hypothesis and Comments
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AbstractAlthough specifically an introduction to this special issue, this article is also an introduction to the anthropological and feminist perspectives of political economy, particularly in the historical context of North American anthropology. The author attempts to define the object and methods of political economy, and to emphasize the particularities of the feminist approach to the subject. Referring to authors who have significantly influenced political economy perspectives, she also discusses four major sets of concepts : 1) production, reproduction, and household ; 2) anthropological subjects, state and agency ; 3) culture and hegemony ; 4) division of labour, restructuration and globalization. Finally, she stresses the importance of the comparative approach and ethnographic fieldwork in strengthening the theory.
Keywords: Labrecque, économie politique, féminisme, ethnographie, Labrecque, political economy, feminism, ethnography
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