The Problem with Empowerment: Social Reproduction and Women’s Food Projects in Jordan

Cook, Brittany

doi:10.1080/24694452.2020.1747971

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“…Home-based form of food business existed during the Pre – COVID era in Jordan in an unorganized way and was considered as a shadow economy within the informal private sector ( Cook, 2021 ). However, the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown altered global food systems and individual consumption patterns, affecting both what and where meals are eaten ( Faour-Klingbeil et al., 2021 ).…”

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Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among female food handlers engaged in home-based online food businesses in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Osaili

Al‐Nabulsi²,

Al-Jaberi³

2022

Heliyon

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Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among female food handlers engaged in home-based online food businesses in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Osaili

Al‐Nabulsi²,

Al-Jaberi³

2022

Heliyon

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“…Studies have shown, for example, that the universalist assumption of increasing economic gains or agricultural productivity is not the only desirable goal for workers. Instead, in some cases, community building, education of children or gaining respect are more important (Cook, 2020).…”

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The hidden end of the value chain: potentials of integrating gender, households, and consumption into agrifood chain analysis

Brückner,

Sardadvar

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The aim of this perspective paper is to reinforce the analysis of gender relations in agrifood chain research and integrate the household and the work and consumption taking place there. In the value chain discourse, approaches that integrate households and consumption as an analytical dimension exist, but the last stage often remains hidden. To take a holistic view on value chains integrating the hidden end, we apply feminist economic perspectives and gender analysis to agrifood chains. This paper builds on our own research while integrating it with other scholars’ empirical work and the theoretical literature concerning gender and value chains. Drawing on empirical examples from both the Global North and South (e.g., on the meat, tomato, seafood, and African Indigenous Vegetables chains), we illustrate the importance of households and consumption to value chain analysis with three examples: Firstly, we demonstrate how commercialization in agrifood chains impacts consumption practices and the food-related care work of women; secondly, we discuss how market-oriented reforms to production in a globalized economy restrict control and access to food for producers; and thirdly, we illustrate that consumer appetite influences working conditions in food production and policies. The examples underscore the fact that households and consumption are not isolated components, but are embedded in a complex agrifood system. In the final part of the paper, we propose an agenda for making this hidden end of the value chain and its links to gender, the household, and consumption more visible.

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“…Clark (2015), for example, explores how the (immigrant) family, the (Turkish) state and the military become entwined in social reproduction thorough national security strategies designed to be implemented at home, via mothering practices that will discipline (foreign) bodies into desirable citizens. Such a view shows how social reproduction “jumps scale,” weaving together the likes of states, transnational corporations, welfare systems, and non‐profits with households, families, and migrant workers in dealings that alternately reconfigure, institutionalize, or displace particular aspects of reproduction (Ansell, 2008; Cook, 2020; Fannin, 2004; Henry, 2018; N. Martin, 2010, 2014; Shah & Lerche, 2020).…”

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Social Reproduction Theory: State of the field and new directions in geography

Rodríguez-Rocha

2021

Geography Compass

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Interest in social reproduction theory (SRT) has been revived in the in the last ten odd years. This paper positions SRT, and its refraction through a geographic lens, as particularly well placed to address emerging issues in the context of ongoing crises—economic, environmental and of care—which have been enhanced by the Covid‐19 pandemic. I present an overview of the Marxist‐feminist traditions that constitute the basis for modern SRT. Through a survey of recent literature, I discuss the potential for extending contemporary SRT through intersectionality theory and suggest the need to draw on theoretical insights originating in the global periphery towards a postcolonial, decolonial SRT. Finally, I contextualize social reproduction theories within geography and suggest three emerging areas of scholarship in which combining a geographic and SRT perspective would yield productive understandings of the current moment and signal towards the construction of alternative, livable futures. These areas are debt and the financialization of social reproduction under neoliberalism; a turn towards a socioecological understanding of reproduction; and resistance, transformation and visions of the future through a “conscious appropriation” of life’s work and life sustaining practices at large.

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The Problem with Empowerment: Social Reproduction and Women’s Food Projects in Jordan

Cited by 6 publications

References 60 publications

Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among female food handlers engaged in home-based online food businesses in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among female food handlers engaged in home-based online food businesses in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

The hidden end of the value chain: potentials of integrating gender, households, and consumption into agrifood chain analysis

Social Reproduction Theory: State of the field and new directions in geography

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