Search Results for social reproduction

... and technology risk social reproduction 6 This “urge to ‘hack’ politics by bringing governance down to a manageable local level” in the ethos of Silicon Valley extends back to countercultural beliefs of the mid-twentieth century ( Turner 2006 : 219). 7 As of 2012, the median annual income...

...Eric Drott This article interrogates music’s role in the work of social reproduction by bringing into dialogue two seemingly antithetical approaches to thinking music’s relation to the social. One is historical materialism; the other is work informed by the “practice turn” in music sociology...

... is the collective figure of African American “othermothers”; and finally the third is Amy, the girl who gave flesh to Carol Gilligan's “ethics of care” proposition. Departing from these specific figures, the article tackles the problem of reimagining the labors (and pleasures) of social reproduction and creative...

.... To review the reception of his work over the last forty years would generally be to chart degrees of dogmatism and infexibility within the Left political cultures of the various nations of Europe and the Americas. However, despite many accusations of heresy, gorz remained remarkably true in his social...

... the limelight. In the process, questions of production, inequality, and reproduction of social structures have been overshadowed. Critical reappraisal of luxury in anthropological theory can paradoxically show us a way out of this identity trap, since luxury, unlike other consumer goods, demands that we think...

...Mark Featherstone Abstract In the first part of this article on Žižek's recent book Pandemic! I show how he develops a political theology of the spirit through a discussion of social distancing. In this argument Žižek connects the idea of physical distance to the biblical story of the resurrection...

... the familiar sites of social reproduction are opened up to affect the operations of each other. This is not a colonizing maneuver, such as that of an extended family imposing a familial form onto an enlarged landscape of operations, but a reciprocal “extending of hands” that enables sites and actors to become...

... in digital capitalism's contemporary value network(s). As an informatics of value that sustains social reproduction at a time of depreciating wages, contemporary finance and the indebted conditions it engenders seem to be a key nodal point in the contemporary functioning of the value network. Because its...

..., the mumpreneur is offered as a pragmatic, individualized (and for most, out of reach) solution to challenging economic circumstances, including the decimation of welfare, rising costs of child care, insecure employment, and a devaluation of social reproductive labor. In response to these unmanageable conditions...

... capitalism (Zaloom 2019 ). There is perennial concern that the rising burden of student debt presents a risk to their future ability to invest in housing, business enterprise, and even their own social reproduction (Miller et al. 2019 ; Popper 2020 ). As in society at large, the financialization...

... securitization as an asset on financial markets. Accordingly, the financialization of debt operates in relation to and through the financialization of social reproduction and everyday life and culture, both materially and affectively (Cavallero and Gago 2021 ; Epstein 2005; Haiven 2014 ; Joseph 2014 ; Martin...

... of the biogenetic substance and of the social relations involved. The process of care in the conventional maternal sense is disrupted and reinvented further as global care chains emerge in the global reproductive arena. Arlie Hochschild (2000) created the notion of global care chains to theorize...

...) ( Knoppers and LeBris 1991 ). By the beginning of the new millennium, journalists had begun to report on this new social phenomenon, calling it variously “reproductive tourism,” “fertility tourism,” or “procreative tourism.” According to reports in the New York Times ( Lee 2005 ) and Wall Street Journal...

... and Development in India, 1970s–1990s: Some Reflections on the Constitutive Role of Contexts .” Economic and Political Weekly 31 , no. 47 : 3071 – 77 . John Mary E. 2013 . “ The Problem of Women's Labour: Some Autobiographical Perspectives .” In “ Labour, Gender, and Social Reproduction ,” edited...

..., where welfare interplays with poverty and criminality; and, not least, the medical technology that makes assisted reproduction possible. The discussion starts in critical cultural and social theory that argues that biomedical technologies are neither morally nor socially neutral but deeply...

... 2003 ; Rose and Novas 2004 ). Assisted reproductive technologies combined with social networking sites such as Facebook or YouTube make new groups such as “surro-children,” “surro-moms,” “bio-moms,” and “intended moms” visible. These groups are forged, creating new collectivities and forming new...

..., biopolitics, and reproductive rights. Technologies here are sites of contestation and struggle, and I focus specifically on the ways that law and medicine intertwine. The technologies shaping blood in the 1990s (and today) also encompass the social rituals surrounding those tools, the material practices...

... For example, in the reproduction theories of the 1970s the school reproduces social relations of capitalism necessary for continued capitalist reproduction. Schools teach the knowledge and skills necessary for students to take their places as workers and managers in the economy. Skills and know-how are taught...

...Paula Serafini; Jennifer Smith Maguire The authors outline how multiple dimensions—historical and contemporary; global and local; political, economic, social, and cultural—inform an understanding of the super-rich. Recent super-rich scholarship is reviewed with regard to three themes: discourses...

... ontological distinctions between the human and the arboreal through xyloid sexuality, a weirding of human eroticism and reproduction that pushes desire, procreation, and sexual fulfillment beyond species boundaries. Mutu's use of xyloid sexuality can be understood as a radical utopian gesture to supplant...