Author: Jeffery R. Webber
Anti-capitalism
“Those Who Are Poor, Die Poor”
Jeffrey R. Webber makes sense of the election of Boric in the context of October’s social explosions in Chile.
Jeffery R. Webber
December 28, 2021
Africa
I Am Going to Die, But Algeria Will Be Independent
Jeffrey Webber reviews Joseph Andras’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel about a French communist who joins the Algerian resistance.
Jeffery R. Webber
June 13, 2021
Capitalism
Just Imagine, My Dear, It Won’t Be Painless
Jeffery R. Webber writes about Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s recently translated Booker Prize-nominated novel The Adventures of China Iron.”
Jeffery R. Webber
March 15, 2021
Climate
Extracting the Andes
Martín Arboleda’s exceptionally ambitious Planetary Mine, attempts to connect the abstract unfolding of a process of global capital accumulation linking Chile and China across the world market, together with the concrete, sensuous, quotidian realities of labor, territory, and urban life on either end of that abstract flow.
Jeffery R. Webber
December 1, 2020
Anti-capitalism
¡Fuera Piñera!
An analysis of the 2019-20 uprising in Chile.
Jeffery R. Webber
April 15, 2020