Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction

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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. Reflecting and expanding on ongoing debates within feminist geography, with additional cross-disciplinary contributions from sociologists and political scientists, Precarious Worlds explores the productive possibilities of social reproduction as an ontology, a theoretical lens, and an analytical framework for what Geraldine Pratt has called “a vigorous, materialist transnational feminism.” cover CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 Return of the Nightwatchman State? Federalism, Social Reproduction, and Social Policy in Conservative Canada CHAPTER 2 Just One Drop Geopolitics and the Social Reproduction of Security in Southeast Turkey CHAPTER 3 Men at Life’s Work Structural Transformation, Inertial Heteronormativity, and Crisis CHAPTER 4 Enacting a Postcapitalist Politics through the Sites and Practices of Life’s Work CHAPTER 5 Whose Lives, Which Work? Class Discrepancies in Life’s Work CHAPTER 6 Reproduction . . . Amplified Life’s Work for African American Women in Milwaukee CHAPTER 7 Dirty Work in the City Garbage and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Dakar CHAPTER 8 Making Shrimp and Unmaking Shrimpers in the Mississippi and Mekong Deltas CONCLUSION Demanding Life’s Work