Pluralizing social reproduction approaches

International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 28

Published: Feb. 3, 2025

The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations feminists, offers a rejection productivism possibility (re)telling history capitalism its contemporary dynamics through work practices "life making." Yet, it is undeniable that much "old" "new" theorizing around SR comes predominantly from Global North. Hence, we argue, pluralizing approaches (SRAs) needed. This article draws on existing debates to pluralize their theoretical premises, disciplinary boundaries, empirical reach suggest global progressive agenda centered SRAs able speak challenges complexities processes life making worldwide. Foregrounding such complexity, considers conceptual issues, argues location central SRAs, discusses associated methodological political questions. We conclude paying attention first step toward identifying multiple heterogeneous ways which are structured operate under developing solidarities challenge oppressions reclaim life-making activities spaces.

Language: Английский

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The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction

Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 24(3)

Published: July 1, 2024

Abstract The last decade has seen a renaissance of feminist political economy studies centred on the concept ‘social reproduction’. These aim at studying global capitalism from vantage‐point what produces and sustains life, expanding social boundaries processes subjects analysed in economy. Contributing to this research agenda, special issue we present Introduction explores Social Reproduction Agrarian Change. Building contributions comprising collection, argue that study agrarian change through reproduction enables us de‐invisibilise life‐making behind transformations three distinct ways. First, lens better grasp regeneration ‘classes labour’ rural areas; gender de‐agrarianisation their implications for livelihoods; centre reproductive labour within beyond household ‐ across spaces temporalities as central life countryside. Secondly, also allows complicate land question productivist readings, explore its significance settings, multiply questions our times, whose histories trajectories must grapple with debates economic justice. Finally, provides novel vantage point read formation reorganisation complex geographies rural, relation crises ability redraw urban–rural divide. All insightfully advance methods analysis. lifeworlds here contributes significantly debates. It challenges rigid dichotomies between ‘productive’ ‘reproductive’. problematises households unit analysis sets planetary resolution.

Language: Английский

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Mending the Broken Clock: Gender and Socioecological Changes in Postconflict North Sumatra

Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 30, 2025

ABSTRACT This article investigates a counterintuitive occurrence whereby indigenous Toba women in Pandumaan and Sipituhuta, North Sumatra, Indonesia, retained significant grievances despite successfully challenging landgrab their community. Juxtaposing ethnography, labour time records interviews with soil sampling, the explains how continued depletion river erosion following failed land grab correlate women's increased undercompensated time. In addition to these postconflict ecological damages, burden also reflected patriarchal expectations for female help rebuild village economy. Together, factors fuelled community success recovering lost land. By focusing on relationship between environmental change gendered agrarian relations, concludes by emphasising necessity of socioecological remedy based upon rehabilitative framework reparation social problems that are often left unaddressed aftermath conflicts.

Language: Английский

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Land and Social Life

Oxford University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 22, 2024

Abstract This introductory chapter frames land politics and introduces the handbook. Land is understood here as a key element in production social reproduction, which are taken an inherently connected whole. Social turn, used broad sense to mean not only labor but also socioecological, sociocultural, sociopolitical reproduction. treatment brings us multiple meanings of land: soil, farmland or grazing land, home lot, landscape, socio-agroecological zone, territory, homeland. The chapters do deal either-or dichotomies, such privatization versus commoning, farm plot agroecological zone. Rather, they take whole-to-the-parts parts-to-the-whole relational view, focusing on structural, institutional, political glue that binds different fragments layers relations human nature relations. They see, other words, mosaic access, reproduction incessant renewal life society. In this sense, shape life, vice versa. Struggles for objectively linked systemwide struggles, reverse true.

Language: Английский

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