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Title Precarious worlds : contested geographies of social reproduction / edited by Katie Meehan, Kendra Strauss.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 25
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 25.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Work -- 6 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.
Summary 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."Contributors: Kate Bezanson, Susan Braedley, Jessie H. Clark, Kelly Dombroski, Rosalind Fredericks, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Cindi Katz, Meg Luxton, Brian Marks, Sallie A. Marston, Katie Meehan, Katharyne Mitchell, Oona Morrow, Brenda Parker, Barbara Ellen Smith, Kendra Strauss, Jamie Winders.
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Subject Feminist economics.
Feminist economics.
Feminist geography.
Feminist geography.
Labor.
Labor.
Households -- Economic aspects.
Households -- Economic aspects.
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Meehan, Katie, editor.
Strauss, Kendra, 1975- editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9780820348810 0820348813 (DLC) 2015007739 (OCoLC)905685827
ISBN 9780820348803 (electronic book)
0820348805 (electronic book)
9780820348810
0820348813
9780820348827
0820348821