Date: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Time: 20:00 (drinks from 19:30)
Location: Arminius, Museumpark 3, Rotterdam
Admission: €10,- (regular), €6,- (reduced)
Language: English
On the occasion of the Dutch translation of Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World we welcome prominent Danish writer Emma Holten to De Dépendance.
In Deficit, Emma Holten traces how economic thinkers – from the Enlightenment onwards – created a value framework that overlooked and neglected ‘women’s work’ and acts of care. Because care work could not be measured, it became invisible. Holten reveals how the economic models that drive political decisions today are just as flawed, giving us unparalleled monetary wealth, but causing deep social harms that are hurting us all.
So who gets to define what is valuable? And if we cannot properly value the things that matter, how can we build a better future?
Praise for Emma Holten’s Deficit:
“Brilliantly rewrites the history of economic thought to place ‘her story’ at its heart. A must-read”
– Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics
“One of the most important feminist voices of the 21st century … The book about capitalism we didn’t know we needed”
– Sofie Hagen
“At once poignant and accessible, Deficit deftly exposes how our existing economic institutions fail to value care in our societies and are incapable of understanding why relationships between people matter. A truly impressive book“
– Rosie Collington, author of The Big Con
This event is a collaboration with publisher De Geus and Arminius.
Participants
Emma Holten
Emma Holten (1991) is a Danish human rights activist, feminist and writer. She became internationally known in 2014 with her project Consent about her own experience with digital sexual violence. Deficit is her first book, which was jubilantly received and became an instant bestseller. The Dutch translation is published by De Geus under the title Tekort: Hoe een feministische economie ons leven rijker kan maken.
Sereh Mandias
Sereh Mandias studied Architecture at the TU Delft and Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In her work she oscillates between theory and praxis, with a specific interest in the creation of the contemporary city. She works as an independent writer and researcher, is the founder of architecture podcast Windoog, editor of Journal for Architecture OASE and teaches at the Chair of Interiors Buildings Cities (Faculty of Architecture and the built Environment, TU Delft) and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture.