Subject To Power is an open-ended investigation into the state of inequality between men and women; subjugation, domination, exploitation - and all related forms of hierarchies and tyrannies - with an international lineup of guests, hosted by Elle Kamihira.
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Subject To Power is an open-ended investigation into the state of inequality between men and women; subjugation, domination, exploitation - and all related forms of hierarchies and tyrannies - with an international lineup of guests, hosted by Elle Kamihira.
Our economic institutions - capitalism, trade, money, the market - are based on one fundamental principle: Quid Pro Quo. Something For Something.
It is said that these systems sprung out of the age-old human tradition of trade, of exchange. That humans, from the dawn of time, have exchanged with each other for our needs - goods, services, emotions, care, language - that our very nature is transactional.
Our guest on this episode, independent researcher Genevieve Vaughan, has spent her life theorizing and proving the very opposite - that Quid Pro Quo, or “the exchange economy” is completely incompatible with human life and human needs.
That in fact, it is the basic interaction of unilateral giving and receiving, “the gift economy”, that is the hidden blueprint of human life, and that the “exchange economy” is indeed a parasitic system - an economy that rests on a sea of unseen and unacknowledged gifts.
In this episode we talk about the maternal roots of the gift economy, the gendered division of these opposing economies, how “the exchange economy” destroys mutuality, empathy and human connection, and why we need to find our way back to our original gift-based economies. And that “when we base our economy on giving and receiving rather than exchange, we create completely different human relations.”
Genevieve Vaughan's Links:
gift-economy.com
maternalgifteconomymovement.org
Gift Economy on YouTube
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Credits
Host: Elle Kamihira
Produced by Elle Kamihira
Audio Engineering by Jason Sheesley at Abridged Audio
Cover Art by Bee Johnson
Music by Beware of Darkness
Subject To Power
Subject To Power is an open-ended investigation into the state of inequality between men and women; subjugation, domination, exploitation - and all related forms of hierarchies and tyrannies - with an international lineup of guests, hosted by Elle Kamihira.
