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Sep 2019
51m 19s

RAJ PATEL on Cheapness in the Age of Cap...

FOR THE WILD
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Raj and Ayana discuss cheapness in relation to the prison industrial complex, the invisibility of domestic labor and care work, the fallacies of fair trade, and the enclosure of the commons. As the commodification and devaluation of life plunges us deeper into ecological crisis, may we awaken to the truth that cheapness can’t last forever.Support the show 
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