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Power and Polycrisis: on the durability of capitalism-patriarchy-colonialism (CPC)

Birgit M. Kaiser et al.

Journal of Political Power2025https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2025.2453234article
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This paper is inspired by Jamaican cultural critic Sylvia Wynter who notes that contemporary times do not face a list of separate problems, but a ‘global problematique’. While these current socio-political, economic and ecological challenges are often referred to as ‘polycrisis’, this paper asks what the focus on crisis obfuscates and how instead a focus on power can help move beyond the emergency-exceptionalism of crisis-thinking. Our argument highlights how specifically the durable and interlocking effects of capitalist, patriarchal and (neo-)colonial power have to be analysed in conjunction. For these interlocking vectors of power, we propose the acronym ‘CPC’.

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@article{birgit2025,
  title        = {{Power and Polycrisis: on the durability of capitalism-patriarchy-colonialism (CPC)}},
  author       = {Birgit M. Kaiser et al.},
  journal      = {Journal of Political Power},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2025.2453234},
}

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0.44

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.32 × 0.4 = 0.13
M · momentum0.57 × 0.15 = 0.09
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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