Reproduction and Resistance: An Anti-colonial Contribution to Social-Reproduction Feminism

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Reproduction and Resistance: An Anti-colonial Contribution to Social-Reproduction Feminism
Abstract
In Northern Canada, Indigenous mixed economies persist alongside and in resistance to capital accumulation. The day-to-day sites and processes of colonial struggle, and, in particular, their gendered nature, are too often ignored. This piece takes an anti-colonial materialist approach to the multiple labours of Indigenous women in Canada, arguing that their social-reproductive labour is a primary site of struggle: a site of violent capitalist accumulation and persistent decolonising resistance. In making this argument, this piece draws on social-reproduction feminism, and anti-racist, Indigenous and anti-colonial feminism, asking what it means to take an anti-colonial approach to social-reproduction feminism. It presents an expanded conception of production that encompasses not just the dialectic of capitalist production and reproduction, but also non-capitalist, subsistence production. An anti-colonial approach to social-reproduction feminism challenges one to think through questions of non-capitalist labour and the way different forms of labour persist relationally, reproducing and resisting capitalist modes of production.
Publication
Historical Materialism
Volume
24
Issue
2
Pages
87-110
Date
2016
Language
English
ISSN
1465-4466, 1569-206X
Short Title
Reproduction and Resistance
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Citation
Hall, R. J. (2016). Reproduction and Resistance: An Anti-colonial Contribution to Social-Reproduction Feminism. Historical Materialism, 24(2), 87–110. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-12341473