Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation): 25 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820348813 ISBN 13: 9780820348810

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2015

Synopsis

This 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.”

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About the Author

BRENDA PARKER is an assistant professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

From the Back Cover

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.”

KATIE MEEHAN is assistant professor of geography at the University of Oregon.

KENDRA STRAUSS is assistant professor in the Labour Studies Program at Simon Fraser University and an associate member of the Department of Geography.

Cover design: Kaelin Chappell Broaddus

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Geographies of Social Justice and Transformation

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ISBN (paper) 978-0-8203-4882-7

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820348813
• ISBN 13: 9780820348810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Meehan Katie