Moneyless economics and non-hierarchical exchange values in Chiapas, Mexico

Araujo, Erin

doi:10.4000/jda.6907

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“…Though far from unchanged, Indigenous communal governance predates capitalism in the Americas and contains practices that developed to resist coloniality, making it an example of what El Cambalache calls a decolonial diverse economy (El Cambalache & Araujo, 2020). Under capitalist social relations, value is appropriated from the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, but in Kajp ‘the greatest value generated is the creation of a collectivity’, which continuously creates the conditions for material self‐determination (Araujo, 2018, p. 26; Tzul Tzul, 2019c). At the same time, the social relations of reproduction that Tzul Tzul describes also advance economic productivity, particularly in how they sustain people who migrate to do waged work.…”

Section: Theories Of (Social) Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Smyth

2024

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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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Section: Theories Of (Social) Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%