Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban

Tanyildiz, Gökbörü Sarp; and, Linda Peake; Koleth, Elsa; Reddy, Rajyashree N.; patrick/dp, darren; Ruddick, Susan

doi:10.1002/9781119789161.ch1

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“…This means that to understand how Lucia transforms her city, one might want to look not only into what she does in designated spaces of social and political actuation, such as the favelas as a whole, or EDUCAP, but also in other ‘spaces’ and ‘moments’ of her everyday life, which are all interconnected to the point where they sometimes become more or less indistinct. Lucia's case perfectly illustrates what many feminist, post‐ and decolonial urban scholars have been arguing for a long time: that a universalistic understanding of urbanization offers an interesting tool for comparison between urban and regional contexts, yet does not account for the way socially and culturally specific processes produce ‘other’ forms of urbanization (Parnell and Robinson, 2012; Peake, 2016; Beebeejaun, 2017; Maclean, 2018; Tanyildiz et al ., 2021; Truelove and Ruszczyk, 2022). Even changing the scale from global patterns of urbanization (Brenner and Schmid, 2015) to that of the slum, the periphery or the margins does not automatically translate into an understanding of how social and cultural differences shape our urban future.…”

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EMBODIED URBANIZATIONS AND AMEFRICAN FUTURITIES: Lucia's Epistemology

Veillette

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article, I examine the definition of resistance given by a favela woman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—Lucia Cabral—and its epistemological potential for urban theory. From a feminist, postcolonial and decolonial point of view, I argue that Lucia's definition of resistance entails an insightful framework to understand urban transformations, because she shifts the question of ‘what they are’ to ‘where they stream from’. I build on my situated position and inter‐relationality with Lucia to argue that, first, urban transformations, which I here refer to as forms of urbanization, can and often do come from the favela; secondly, that these forms of urbanization derive from situated and translocated‐ing Amefrican epistemologies; and thirdly, that women's bodies constitute, in many cases, the very basis of urban futurities in the favelas. I look into embodied forms of urbanization to conclude that it is possible to see, feel, sense and nurture forms of future‐thinking and ‐building that I here call Amefrican futurities, for they emerge from the specific subjectivities and praxis of women living in the favelas.

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EMBODIED URBANIZATIONS AND AMEFRICAN FUTURITIES: Lucia's Epistemology

Veillette

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Though her research is specific to Guatemala, it resonates with the way social life is organised in many of the municipalities of Oaxaca, including Kajp, as well as in Indigenous communities throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, many of which are embroiled in struggles against state violence and expanding extractivism (see Erpel Jara, 2018;Navarro Trujillo, 2019;Tzul Tzul, 2015). Importantly, I connect Tzul Tzul's theories with those of feminist geographers who are expanding ideas about social reproduction as life-making within and outside of capitalist modes of production (Andrucki et al, 2017;Meehan & Strauss, 2015;Mitchell et al, 2003;Tanyildiz et al, 2021). For example, analyses of the diverse economic activities of Black and Indigenous people in the Americas argue that they are sites of struggle and celebration that do not neatly fit into the categories of 'economically productive or socially reproductive' and refuse capitalist expectations (Hossein & Christabell, 2022;Mullings, 2021, p. 156).…”

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Making futures in Oaxaca: Remittances in the diverse economies of social reproduction

Smyth

2024

Trans Inst British Geog

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In this article, I analyse intermingling economically productive and reproductive work at the global and local scale through the lens of how remittances are folded into the communal social relations of one Indigenous community in Oaxaca. Scholars have illustrated the many ways that social reproduction is reconfigured through transnational labour migration, and troubled the categorisation of economically productive and socially reproductive labour. Expanding on their work, I engage with scholarship about Indigenous communal governance in Guatemala and Mexico, particularly the theories of Gladys Tzul Tzul on reproduction, in order to present new insights into feminist geographical knowledge of diverse economies and social reproduction. Drawing on ethnographic methods, I present three empirical examples, which illustrate how the intermingling of economic production and reproduction of communal life make Indigenous futures. I argue that large‐scale reproductive activities, such as those deployed by the community, produce values beyond capitalist circuits of production and that it is how remittances are inserted into the local communal economies that render the money valuable for reproducing life and securing a future.

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“…The resulting precarious conditions of everyday life for marginalized women in Southern urban contexts, which include structural inequalities related to access to infrastructure, labour, and wages, gender-based violence, and underrepresentation in governance, are well documented in gender and urbanization research (Chant & McIlwaine, 2016;Razavi, 2020;Tacoli & Satterthwaite, 2013). Moreover, these conditions trouble the notion of understanding everyday urbanism in terms of beforeand-after the pandemic, prompting scholars to question what is "unprecedented" about the crisis (Bahn et al, 2020;Tanyildiz et al, 2021). As a transnational network of feminists in the GenUrb project (formally titled, Urbanization and Gender in the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network), we conduct research and public education on the gendered dimensions of urbanization in cities in the global South, focusing on the everyday lives of women living in low-income neighbourhoods.…”

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Everyday urbanisms in the pandemic city: a feminist comparative study of the gendered experiences of Covid-19 in Southern cities

Razavi

Adeniyi-Ogunyankin

Basu³

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Social & Cultural Geography

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and Shanghai, China-we engage in an intersectional analysis of the gendered impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in women's everyday lives. Our research employs a variety of context-specific methods, including virtual methods, phone interviews, and socially-distanced interviews to engage women living in neighbourhoods characterized by underdevelopment and economic insecurity. While existing conditions of precarity trouble the beforeand-after terminology of Covid-19, across the five cities the narratives of women's everyday lives reveal shifts in spatial-temporal orders that have deepened gendered and racial exclusions. We find that limited mobilities and the different and changing dimensions of production and social reproduction have led to increased care work, violence, and strained mental health. Finally, we also find that social reproduction solidarities, constituting old and new circuits of care, have been reinforced during the pandemic.

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Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban

Cited by 10 publications

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EMBODIED URBANIZATIONS AND AMEFRICAN FUTURITIES: Lucia's Epistemology

EMBODIED URBANIZATIONS AND AMEFRICAN FUTURITIES: Lucia's Epistemology

Making futures in Oaxaca: Remittances in the diverse economies of social reproduction

Everyday urbanisms in the pandemic city: a feminist comparative study of the gendered experiences of Covid-19 in Southern cities

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