Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction

Resource type
Authors/contributors
Title
Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Abstract
This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction - defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate - and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity, nonhuman materialities, and diverse economies. --Publisher's description
Series
Geographies of justice and social transformation
Place
Athens
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Date
2015
# of Pages
193 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-8203-4881-0
Notes

Contents: Introduction: New frontiers in life's work / Kendra Strauss and Katie Meehan -- Return of the nightwatchman state? Federalism, social reproduction, and social policy in conservative Canada / Kate Bezanson -- Just one drop: Geopolitics and the social reproduction of security in Southeast Turkey / Jessie H. Clark -- Men at life's work: Structural transformation, inertial heteronormativity, and crisis / Andrew Gorman-Murray -- Enacting a postcapitalist politics through the sites and practices of life's work / Oona Morrow and Kelly Dombroski -- Who lives, which work? Class discrepancies in life's work / Barbara Ellen Smith and Jamie Winders -- Reproduction...Amplified: life's work for African American women in Milwaukee / Brenda Parker -- Dirty work in the city: Garbage and the crisis of social reproduction in Dakar / Rosalind Fredericks -- Making shrimp and unmaking shrimpers in the Mississippi and Mekong Deltas / Brian Marks -- Conclusion: Demanding life's work / Cindi Katz, Sallie A. Marston, and Katharyne Mitchell.

Citation
Meehan, K., & Strauss, K. (Eds.). (2015). Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction. University of Georgia Press. https://www.ugapress.org/9780820348827/precarious-worlds/