For this first part of the series, ROAR editor Joris Leverink interviews Maria Mies about her work Ecofeminism, which she co-authored with Vandana Shiva. We will look not only at what inspired the authors at the time of writing their influential works, but also at what they believe is the relevance of their ideas in bringing about change in the context of the current wave of global uprisings. Over the coming weeks ROAR will publish a series of interviews with some of the authors from this varied and inspiring collection of critical analyses and theories. 48).Recently, the UK-based publisher Zed Books launched its Critique Influence Change series, which “brings together pivotal texts by notable academics and activists from Zed Books’ publishing of the last thirty-five years”. The paper's intent is to re-examine the capitalist concept of "productivity" which Maria Mies calls "the most formidable hurdle in our struggle to come to an understanding of women's labour" (Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, p.
Building on recent research in ecological economics, feminist economics, community economic development, political ecology, and social/cultural studies, this paper explores and articulates several alternative conceptualizations of productivity. The production and consumption process? How do improvements in productivity take place, and how can they be measured and fostered? Feminist economists critique the exclusion of many important aspects of production and reproduction from most economic equations the discussion on alternative ways of valuing inputs and inclusionary approaches to the question of productivity is well advanced in feminist debates. This involves questioning, testing and replacing many of the static assumptions of the neoclassical economics paradigm: What are the significant inputs and outputs? Can their cost or value be measured in dollars? What additional, related outputs and inputs are silent, "external", or ignored in However, productivity can also be understood more broadly as a fundamental human value which denotes optimal use of the natural environment for individual, social and cultural benefit. Economists have used productivity as a very specific measure, denominated in dollars, which shows the output of a produced or consumed good per unit of labour or capital used in the production process. The concept of productivity, meaning output per unit of input, is at once general and
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