Opening remarks by Jini Kim Watson:

I’d like to thank Nancy Fraser for sharing with us this provocative paper and for taking the time to join us today. I’m going to keep my comments brief, to allow for maximum time for discussion; I’ll start with commenting on a few of the contributions I see Professor Fraser making in her paper, and then follow up by raising some possible questions for discussion.

First – and I don’t actually need to summarize the argument of the paper because it was so lucidly laid out, but I’ll do this very quickly– one of Fraser’s main contributions here is to revisit the contribution of Karl Polanyi in his groundbreaking, but perhaps now little read work The Great Transformation Continue reading…