Gens : Un manifeste féministe pour l’étude du capitalisme

Bear, Laura; Ho, Karen; Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt; Yanagisako, Sylvia

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“…In the following analysis, I draw on Bear et al’s (2015) robust feminist manifesto for the study of capitalism in order to interrogate the figure of the economically productive worker and to demonstrate its generative dimensions, i.e., “the very processes. .…”

Section: From Boomtown To Hometown (Site and Methods)mentioning

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“….through which [economic] systems and socialities are made.” I bring this into conversation with post-work, feminist, and disability studies scholarship in order to argue that “jobs” in places like the Bakken, and in the long COVID-19 landscape, are a patently unsuitable solution to meeting material needs, making lives (more) meaningful, and achieving more just social relations. “Work,” argue Bear et al (2015), “often takes for granted what counts as. .…”

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“…Such an analysis does not center the individual choices of Lynn and Amanda; rather, alongside Bear et al (2015), it seeks to “demonstrate the taken-for-grantedness of [the] already made worlds” that are presumed to cohere in the narratives of “the economy” to which they subscribe. Such narratives—abundantly available via mainstream media and amplified in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic—artificially separate “the economy” from the meeting of material needs, primarily via economic growth measures like the GDP (Hickel 2020).…”

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“…Though patterns will continue to emerge in both the wake and midst of COVID-19, early research suggests that its labor disruptions indexed strong associations between race, gender identity, ability, and the relatively essential nature of one’s labor (Olayo-Mendez et al 2021; Powell 2021; Shew 2020; Robles, Sauermilch, and Starks 2020). The pandemic also evinced which sectors of “the economy” may have been less essential than its stakeholders would have us believe (HSCSW 2020; Bratton 2021), hinting at “the constructedness—the messiness and hard work involved in making, translating, suturing, converting, and linking diverse capitalist projects—that enable capitalism to appear totalizing and coherent” (Bear et al 2015).…”

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Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel Boomtown

Labuski

2023

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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COVID-19 has radically reshaped the labor dreams of many U.S. workers. This essay uses pre-pandemic fieldwork in an oil and gas “boomtown” to consider post-work imaginaries in the wake and midst of COVID-19. I use feminist and disability studies perspectives to argue that economic analyses must not only move beyond the discourse of “jobs” but must also attend to gender-based and ableist modes of discrimination that persist even in so-called booming economies. I posit the figure of the economically productive worker, asking how routine practices of identity-shaped discrimination undermine the capacities of some to embody this figure. My interview-derived and ethnographic data suggest that economic self-sufficiency is a woefully inadequate model for meeting the material needs of people, and that labor innovations such as a universal basic income are necessary to achieve the kinds of flourishing sought by those participating in the “great resignation.”

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“…This, again, is a reminder of the importance of Collins's ideas about how the economy must be constantly made. This making is the work of social reproduction (see also Bear et al, 2015;Yanagisako, 2002).…”

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Crisis is in the details

Besky

2023

Anthropology of Work Review

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It is a pleasure to comment on "Revaluing Work after COVID-19." It is a thoughtful and timely essay, and I look forward to adding it my syllabi for next year. In my brief commentary, I am going to offer some thoughts on the article and put it into conversation with work from across Jane Collins's wide-ranging and inspirational body of scholarship, of which I can only offer a small sample.What we gain from Collins's work is a method for understanding how macro-level changes in the economy manifest in specific, everyday worlds and lives. Unwaged and reproductive labor have always been essential to capitalism. This is an important theme of feminist economic anthropology, but it is most often remembered, it seems, in times of crisis. The problem that Collins addresses in this Anthropology of Work Review (AWR) article, as well as in her wider work, is how differently positioned people do that remembering-how they put waged and unwaged, productive and reproductive, back into relation with one another. What Collins (2017) calls the "politics of value" hinges in part on this question.If we contextualize this article in the longer arc of Collins's work, we might say-to adapt a phrase from her collaborator Catherine Lutz-that crisis is in the details (Lutz, 2006; see also Lutz and Collins, 1993). In moments of relative and perceived stability (or is it just complacency?), power rests on the fiction of a neat separation between the productive and the unproductive.Crisis crumbles that fiction, creating opportunities for new ways of making the economy (Collins, 2017). Here is one of the key lessons of Collins's work: Paying attention to the specific ways people confront that crumbling fiction is a means of reminding ourselves that the economy is always in the process of being made. Its form is never given.Understanding economic crisis, then, is not just a matter of diagnosing goings-on at macro-level scales. Understanding crisis is also a matter, as Lutz (2006, 594) suggests, of making the economy's "human face and frailty" more visible.This AWR article is just the latest instantiation of Collins's unique ability to help us understand crisis, in all its detail, without becoming demoralized by its enormity. To be sure, there are many ways to approach crisis ethnographically without falling into the trap of sensationalism or broad generalization. Collins's approach is to start with work. This does not mean that she equates work with life or reduces social life to labor relations; rather, it means that she recognizes that the act of theorizing the economy as it is, and as it might be otherwise, has historically occurred in the labor process. It is in people's actions and attachments. In Collins's scholarship, work-and the work of social reproduction in particular-has a paradoxical way of cutting the economy down to size, even as work undergirds the economy.I want to walk through a chain of political-economic crises overviewed in Collins's scholarship. This is in no way exhaustive. It is a little taste, in hopes that you, the re...

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Fabricating Silicon Savannah

Wahome

2023

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This PhD research thesis offers an historicised account of Silicon Savannah, a digital technology entrepreneurship arena in Nairobi, Kenya. Silicon Savannah is an opportunity to study the appropriation of technology innovation and commercialisation models in a lower income, developing economy. Fieldwork took place over 2015-6, a period when this embryonic 'arena of development ' (Jorgensen and Sorensen, 1999) is subject to scrutiny about its high, but largely unverified, hyped expectations. As a result, this thesis dwells on how actors develop strategies to adopt and adapt to processes over which they have no discretion.Actors in Silicon Savannah individually and collectively develop strategies and gaming systems for enacting legitimacy and attracting resources. The analytical frame reveals a dimension of persistent colonial modality inherent in the practice of global capitalism of which the digital economy and ICT developmental projects are a part. This is indicated in policy discourses of digital entrepreneurship that disclaim alternatives and multiplicities, and take for granted that there is a standardised typology of progress. The result is a paradox where entrepreneurs are incentivised to demonstrate alignment with discourses that might not reflect their experience.The study aims to produce a 'view from Nairobi' by integrating the interpretive frameworks of the subjects of the study with the researcher's analysis. Thus, it relies on ethnographic interviews and observations, and historical reconstruction using resources preserved in internet-based repositories like weblogs, emails and social media. Through this empirical work, this study makes several contributions to knowledge: First, it produces a rich historical account of Silicon Savannah as a zone of friction between ecologies of knowledge and practice. In this way, it is conversant with ethnographies of policy implementation and academic research interested in interactions between received prescriptions and local milieu.Second, it its discussion of actors' strategic use of 'narrative infrastructures' (Deuten and Rip, 2000) and engages with the use of narrative in the production of and practices in arenas of 7.3 Performative Technology Entrepreneurship.

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Gens : Un manifeste féministe pour l’étude du capitalisme

Cited by 12 publications

References 38 publications

Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel Boomtown

Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel Boomtown

Crisis is in the details

Fabricating Silicon Savannah

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