Swyngedouw's puzzle: Surplus-value production in socionature. Issue 2 (July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Batubara, Bosman
• Other Names: Royle Camilla guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Human geography. Volume 14:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 292
• Page End: 295
• Publication Date: 2021-07
• Subjects: oikeios -- socionature -- surplus-value production -- Swyngedouw's puzzle -- value-relations; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.205
• DOI: 10.1177/19427786211012663
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1942-7786

Abstract

This article engages with Swyngedouw's puzzle, that is, how is surplus-value production under capitalism conceptualised given the entanglement of humans and non-human entities. It identifies how Swyngedouw's socionature – a concept/way to express the oneness of human and non-human under capitalism – posed a critique to the tendency of labour-centred analysis in Marxist thought such as Neil Smith's concept of 'production of nature' but did not engage with how surplus-value is produced. This article makes visible the role of non-wage-labour in surplus-value production through reference to Moore's concept of value-relations and oikeios .