Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Kajsa "Ekis" Ekman (born 1980) is a Swedish journalist, writer and activist. She is the author of several works about the financial crisis, women's rights and capitalism critique. She writes for the major Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter and is an op-ed columnist at the leftwing daily ETC.[1]
Books
Her book Being and Being Bought,[2] compares the sex industry and the surrogacy industry and how they both commodify women's bodies.
Her book Stolen Spring [3] describes the eurocrisis as seen from Athens, and the way in which it affected the Greek economy. Ekman criticizes the view that the eurocrisis was caused by the Greek workers and instead traces it back to changes in capitalism.
Ekman was one of the key note speakers at the 2014 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
In her Ted Talk "Everybody talks about Capitalism, but what is it?" she speaks about free market as a useful tool, but capitalism as a force unable of moral, responsibility and plan for the climate, the country and the world. She suggests regulation of the finance sector to avoid crises, and suggests "democracy in all sectors of society, also in the working place".[4]
She was one of the participants on the Freedom Flotilla 2015 to Gaza.
References
- ↑ Kajsa Ekis Ekman at Lybrary.com
- ↑ Ekman, Kajsa Ekis: Being and Being Bought - Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self. Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 2013
- ↑ Ekman, Kajsa Ekis: Κλεμμένη Ανοιξη Athens: Kedros Publishers, 2014
- ↑ "Everybody talks about capitalism, but what is it? TedX Athens 2014
External links
Media related to Kajsa Ekis Ekman at Wikimedia Commons