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

ISBN 10: 0820348813 / ISBN 13: 9780820348810

Published by University of Georgia Press, 2015

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pp. 200.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820348813
• ISBN 13: 9780820348810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.”

About the Author

Katie Meehan (Editor)
KATIE MEEHAN is assistant professor of geography at the University of Oregon.

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