The marketisation of life: entangling social reproduction theory and regimes of patriarchy through women’s work in post-Soviet Uzbekistan

A feminist political ecology of agricultural innovations in smallholder farming systems: Experiences from wheat production in Morocco and Uzbekistan

“…But most of these women were confined to traditional domains of sewing and baking rather than adopting new technologies and innovations in farming. Our findings support prior assertions in post-Soviet Uzbekistan of the government being interested in perpetuating traditional roles for women, in what has been termed by the state as a return to ‘lost traditions’ ( Kandiyoti, 2007 , Lombardozzi, 2022 ). This was evident from the stories of one of the women farmers: “as for me I learned about flour a little bit as I wanted to teach girls to bake.…”

‘I had to take control’: gendered finance rationality in the UK

“…To explore pension investments by women 4 , we respond to a growing literature that shows the necessity to give voice to individuals' experiences through qualitative research when exploring gendered practices in everyday life (Bargawi et al, 2021;Lombardozzi, 2021;Mezzadri et al, 2021). This paper is based on two independent studies conducted between 2016 and 2017, exploring UK individuals' engagement with pension investments.…”

“…The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we contribute to the feminist political literature on social reproduction (Bargawi et al, 2021;Lombardozzi, 2021) by demonstrating how structural and normative constraints associated with the UK's pension system not only create wealth inequalities but also prevent women from feeling able to rely on the pension system for their long-term financial security. This leads to a sense of discomfort, culminating in active-meaning making processes to deal with the increasing pressure to accumulate assets.…”

The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour

“…This commercialization shapes global care chains (GCCs), transnational circuits outsourcing the care question to gendered, migrant and racialized reproductive labour. 1 As 'care crises' have become a distinctive feature of neoliberal capitalism (Fraser, 2017; see also Lombardozzi, 2021 on Uzbekistan; Bargawi et al, 2021 on Palestine), their resolution has increasingly relied on finance, extending its reach to all domains of social life. Working class households in the global North rely heavily on debt (LeBaron, 2010;Montgomerie and Tepe-Belfrage, 2017;Roberts, 2016).…”