scholarly journals Revisiting geographies of social reproduction: Everyday life, the endotic, and the infra‐ordinary

Area ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 812-819
Author(s):  
Sarah Marie Hall
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Reproduction

scholarly journals Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juanita Elias ◽  
Shirin M. Rai
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Power And Agency ◽  
A Site

AbstractIt goes without saying that feminist International Political Economy (IPE) is concerned in one way or another with the everyday – conceptualised as both a site of political struggle and a site within which social relations are (re)produced and governed. Given the longstanding grounding of feminist research in everyday gendered experiences, many would ask: Why do we need an explicit feminist theorisation of the everyday? After all, notions of everyday life and everyday political struggle infuse feminist analysis. This article seeks to interrogate the concept of the everyday – questioning prevalent understandings of the everyday and asking whether there is analytical and conceptual utility to be gained in articulating a specifically feminist understanding of it. We argue that a feminist political economy of the everyday can be developed in ways that push theorisations of social reproduction in new directions. We suggest that one way to do this is through the recognition that social reproductionisthe everyday alongside a three-part theorisation of space, time, and violence (STV). It is an approach that we feel can play an important role in keeping IPE honest – that is, one that recognises how important gendered structures of everyday power and agency are to the conduct of everyday life within global capitalism.

scholarly journals ELECTRIFICATION, URBAN LIFE AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (31) ◽  
pp. 6-29
Author(s):  
Odette Seabra
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Role Of Women

Technological innovations have significantly changed the society in many ways. This paper analyses the major changes caused by the development and the spread of electric energy utilization in the production of urban space, in labour, in the organization of family and households, in everyday life and in the role of women, such as the changes brought to the households as an outcome of the introduction of everyday technologies in them, as well as in the role they play, whether in the job market, in the artistic and political vanguards and in the fight for rights, as well as in their role of household management as the person responsible for maintaining the conditions of social reproduction of their families. This debate is supported by the notions of modern, modernization, modernity and utopia, while highlights the contradictions and inequalities that remain and permeate the life of the working class in the cities.

Queering social reproduction: Sex, care and activism in San Francisco

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802094787
Author(s):  
Max J Andrucki
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Urban Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sex Practices

In this paper I ask what is at stake when we move past static ontologies of the ‘gayborhood’ as a form of commercial and residential concentration in decline to theorise gay urban activism as a mode of queer social reproduction, through which queer caring labour ‘redeems’ the dislocations of the neoliberal city structured by oedipalised and capitalist social relations. Through well-documented formal and informal collective action, queers in the urban West have organised in response to health crises, exclusion and systemic threats of violence. Returning to socialist feminist imaginaries of care beyond the ‘social’, and to Guy Hocquenghem’s often-overlooked theory of the sociality of the anus, this paper draws on excerpts from the film Milk, the poetry of Thom Gunn and a discussion of gay men’s volunteering to examine San Francisco as a queer urban space constituted through a network of encounters, crossings, intimacies and labours enacted through the mundane caring practices of everyday life. I ask in what ways we can think of gay urban space as continuously made and remade through non-monogamous sex practices that perform the messy marrying of public and private, and erotic and platonic.

scholarly journals For feminist geographies of austerity

2022 ◽  
pp. 030913252110651
Author(s):  
Sarah Marie Hall
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Voice And Silence

Austerity policies and austere socio-economic conditions in the UK have had acute consequences for everyday life and, interconnectedly, the political and structural regimes that impact upon the lives of women and marginalised groups. Feminist geographies have arguably been enlivened and reinvigorated by critical engagements with austerity, bringing to light everyday experiences, structural inequalities and multi-scalar socio-economic relations. With this paper I propose five areas of intervention for further research in this field: social reproduction, everyday epistemologies, intersectionality, voice and silence, and embodied fieldwork. To conclude, I argue for continuing feminist critique and analyses given the legacies and futures of austerity.

Breaking with the Family Form: Historical Categories, Social Reproduction, and Everyday Life in Late 1950s Rural China

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 869-894
Author(s):  
Alexander F. Day
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Rural China ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Real ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Real Material ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Political Economic

Abstract This article explores the way PRC historians use analytical categories by looking at the emergence of a divide between production and the social reproduction of labor (all the work that goes into producing and raising laborers) that transformed and structured rural everyday life during the Mao period. Everyday life is historical, produced in different ways under different material conditions, structured and shaped by social forms in motion. Thus, it is not an analytical frame through which historians can view the real content of the Mao period underneath the thin veneer of Maoist high politics and its categories. This article therefore argues that everyday life, far from a sphere resisting the impositions and dictates of the state, is fully implicated in the political-economic structuring of society. This is a call to not simply replace an earlier social science focus on the political economy of the PRC with a bottom-up or empirical view of everyday life, recognizing that everyday life is already a structured terrain. Rather than bringing in social science analytical categories from the outside or searching for an empirical real view from below, we need to investigate the emergence of categories and social forms from the real material limits and tendencies of a rapidly changing PRC society.

Social reproduction, finance and the gendered dimensions of pawnbroking

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Roberts ◽  
Ghazal Zulfiqar
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Household Debt ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

While the feminist literature on social reproduction is broad and diverse, one area that has remained relatively under-explored relates to the linkages between social reproduction and finance, particularly between social reproduction and household debt. In our contribution to this Special Issue, we seek to document and to analyse the structural linkages between social reproduction and debt, with a specific focus on pawnbroking in early modern England and contemporary Pakistan. We have four main aims in this article. Our first aim is to contribute to feminist theorizing about social reproduction by showing both how the daily and generational reproduction of households has relied upon historically specific forms of credit and how these social relations of credit/debt have been central to the development and reproduction of capitalism in different times and places. Second, we show how particular forms of ‘everyday finance’ are gendered and, specifically, how they are feminized. Our third aim is to elucidate the relationship between pawn loans, which have received almost no attention from feminist or other critical political economists, and the social reproduction of households in England and Pakistan. Fourth, we elucidate some of the gendered implications of the growing incursion of masculinized capitalist finance into new spaces of everyday life.

The Angel of Geography

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 723-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindi Katz
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
The Family ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Social Wage ◽  
Ongoing Project

Contemporary capitalism is in the throes of crises precipitated by over-accumulation and the effects of decades of privatization, commodification, and financialization, each sieved through the other. The angel of geography is conjured to mark these crises on the grounds of everyday life. Their profound and uneven consequences for the present and future, seen in the shifting discourses and material social practices around children and childhood, call for redress. This piece builds upon my ongoing project, ‘childhood as spectacle’, to examine what is at stake in the accomplishment of social reproduction – and its failures – in turbulent times and heterogeneous spaces. Looking closely at the ways aspirations for the future are defined, managed, reached, and deferred in and through the family and schools, I take stock of contemporary social reproduction and its anxieties. Drawing on three popular and contradictory cultural productions, the films Race to Nowhere and Waiting for Superman, and the best-selling book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, I will address some of the ways the lives and wellbeing of some children – middle-class and wealthier children – have been fetishized while others – the vast majority of children – suffer the consequences of a disinvested public sphere and a radically reduced social wage. As the sense of precariousness stemming from the financial crises of the past decade widens and infiltrates everyday life more deeply, this situation becomes more acute. In this context, aspiration and its management can be framed as a cultural politics ripe for unpacking; a structure of feeling whose drives and effects may illuminate the present as a political moment.

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