1 Resisting against Financialized Capitalism: Ideas on Boundary Struggles Paper Presented at Einstein Rethinking Crisis Research Workshop, Berlin, March 6‐7, 2014. Dr. Özge Yaka Einstein Post‐Doc Fellow, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin Introduction I have been working on local community struggles against hydroelectric power plants in Turkey for some months now. The case is interesting for the purposes of our group as it provides an axis that cuts across the economic, ecological, social and political aspects of contemporary capitalism and its current crisis. It is a useful case to discuss the relations between different faces of the crisis of capitalism: fictitious commodification of nature, ecological destruction, the assault on social reproduction and the subordination of politics to the logic of the market. Hence, it might contribute to understand capitalism and its crisis beyond its limited financial appearance. Today, however, instead of going into the details of my case study, I will try to contribute to a broader discussion initiated by the latest work of Nancy Fraser on an expanded conception of contemporary capitalism and the potentials of resistance. I will try to use my own case study to engage in a dialogue with her work to deepen the discussion. My paper consists of two sub‐sections on financialization as the key aspect of contemporary capitalism and also to the commodification of nature and social‐affective relations and on the idea of boundary struggles as the form of resistance to financialized capitalism. “Fictitious Commodification” as the Core of Neoliberal Accumulation