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Precarious worlds : contested geographies of social reproduction / edited by Katie Meehan and Kendra Strauss.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Geographies of justice and social transformation.
- Geographies of justice and social transformation
- Standardized Title:
- Precarious worlds (University of Georgia Press)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist economics.
- Feminist geography.
- Labor.
- Households--Economic aspects.
- Households.
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div><P>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.</P><P>Reflecting and expanding on ongoing debates within feminist geography, with ad
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: New Frontiers in Life's Work; Part One: State Transformations; 1 Return of the Nightwatchman State? Federalism, Social Reproduction, and Social Policy in Conservative Canada; 2 Just One Drop Geopolitics and the Social Reproduction of Security in Southeast Turkey; Part Two: Re-placing Care; 3 Men at Life's Work Structural Transformation, Inertial Heteronormativity, and Crisis; 4 Enacting a Postcapitalist Politics through the Sites and Practices of Life's Work; Part Three: Bodies and Barriers
- 5 Whose Lives, Which Work? Class Discrepancies in Life's Work6 Reproduction . . . Amplified Life's Work for African American Women in Milwaukee; Part Four: Working Materialities; 7 Dirty Work in the City Garbage and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Dakar; 8 Making Shrimp and Unmaking Shrimpers in the Mississippi and Mekong Deltas; Conclusion: Demanding Life's Work; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; X; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-4880-5
- OCLC:
- 930760343
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