Caliban, social reproduction and our future yet to come

Mullings, Beverley

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.11.007

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“…The "hidden parts" in the submerged iceberg are purposefully hidden, because choosing solidarity to stand up to inequities is risky work. Studies of other locations and racially oppressed geographies show that solidarity economies exist in these other spaces and always have (Mullings, 2021).…”

Section: Black Women In Community Economies As a Theory For Global So...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These teachings of collectively building wealth are not new. In “Caliban, Social Reproduction and Our Future Yet to Come,” Black Canadian scholar Mullings (2021) shows that when Caribbean people have had their humanity stripped away, they learned to build in ways that make their own lives whole, as well as those of others they care about. This is the work of the solidarity economy: correcting an inhumane market system that relegates people of African descent, Indigenous people, and other minority groups to the sidelines (see Hossein, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Black Feminists in the Third Sector: Here Is Why We Choose to use the term Solidarity Economy

Hossein

Pearson

2023

The Review of Black Political Economy

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Many countries in the Global North use the term “social economy”—also known as the third sector—to describe economies run by citizens rather than by state or business actors. Over the years, many Black feminist scholars that we have worked with also share the view that the concept of the “social economy” is limited to a European understanding. It fails to acknowledge those actors in the third sector who are excluded from interacting with the government or private sector. There is an assumption that the social economy is “socially inclined” and that it is a sector able to “interact” with the state and capitalist firms. What happens when certain groups of people cannot interact with the state or private sectors due to systemic exclusion? We argue that to transform literature on the social economy, we must use the term solidarity economy. Rejecting the sanitized language of the social economy, we use critical discourse and case study analyses to show the worldwide use of the term solidarity. Our work draws on theories of community economy intentional community to argue that the solidarity economy is a site of contestation and a way to push for social change.

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Section: Black Women In Community Economies As a Theory For Global So...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Black Feminists in the Third Sector: Here Is Why We Choose to use the term Solidarity Economy

Hossein

Pearson

2023

The Review of Black Political Economy

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“…Theorising the global present requires noticing that the “unhinging” of production from social reproduction (Katz 2001b:710) is not new for all people in all places. As Mullings (2020:151) argues, the current spectre of global surplus populations “may be moving closer to the conditions of precarity that Caribbean populations have faced throughout history”. In the Caribbean, this relationship is neither novel nor transhistorical, but has been renovated in different conjunctures.…”

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Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death

Goffe

2022

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A protracted process of policy development has been underway in Jamaica to curtail the widespread incidence of informal settlements. Against the logic of emerging policy, this article aims to reconnect present-time unauthorised use of space to ancestral refusals of plantation land monopoly. Through ethnographic research and a reconsideration of historical texts, the article situates insecure tenure in a long history of conflict over land and livelihood-conflict that produces a boundary around the authorised use of space. That boundary is porous and mobile, the outcome of a palimpsest of colonial violence and its negation. This argument interrogates the gap between "landless" and "ownershipless", revealing both the role of incomplete dispossession in racialised social reproduction and the spatial practices through which Jamaicans "make life" even in the shadow of premature death.

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“…This positions democratic spaces and imaginaries in the broader contours and differentiated spatialities shaped by imperial geopolitics, which influenced important articulations of the ‘coloniality of labour’ (Werner, 2016, pp. 134–135; Mullings, 2021). As David Slater argued, it is necessary not to treat the geographies of democracy as necessarily self‐evident.…”

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Colours of democracy: Trade union banners and the contested articulations of democratic spatial practices

Crossan

Featherstone

Hayes

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Trans Inst British Geog

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In Forging Democracy, the historian Geoff Eley argues that democracy in Europe 'did not result from natural evolution or economic prosperity' or 'as an inevitable byproduct of individualism or the market'. Rather he suggests that it 'developed because masses of people organized collectively to demand it ' (2002, p. 4). He argues that 'the banner of democracy was held up most consistently by "the socialist tradition"' and that the uneven success of 'democracy's European trajectory … was secured by the Left, sometimes passionately, sometimes painfully, but always as the necessary and most reliable support ' (2002, pp. 5, 12). A key constitutive part of the left's contribution to democracy in this respect has been the role of

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Caliban, social reproduction and our future yet to come

Cited by 41 publications

References 29 publications

Black Feminists in the Third Sector: Here Is Why We Choose to use the term Solidarity Economy

Black Feminists in the Third Sector: Here Is Why We Choose to use the term Solidarity Economy

Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death

Colours of democracy: Trade union banners and the contested articulations of democratic spatial practices

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