The crisis of petro-market civilization: the past as prologue?

DiMuzio, Timothy

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“…Informed by feminist political economic theory, I interpret social reproduction as entailing two broad and interrelated processes: the production of people as social and physical beings over time (on a daily basis and generationally) within the family (Peterson, 2003: 79), and the reproduction of social identities, institutions and societies (Di Muzio, 2012: 76). With rural Chinese families as the empirical base, I focus here upon social reproduction at the family level, that is, ‘physical and social reproduction of bearing, raising, and socializing children, and of creating and maintaining households from infancy to old age’ (Kofman, 2012: 147).…”

Section: Social Reproductionmentioning

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Social reproduction in rural Chinese families: A three‐generation portrait

Liu

2024

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Much of the existing debate on social reproduction focuses on capitalist social relations or is framed around the distinction between the Global North and Global South. Using China, whose unique post‐1949 developmental trajectory embraces both elements of socialism and capitalism, this article aims to breakdown the dichotomy between capitalism and other economic systems and instead draw attention to the ways in which households, the state and market are interdependent. Drawing upon an ethnography conducted in two rural villages and three‐generational life history data, this article explores how the organization of reproductive work evolved in rural families against the backdrop of wider political and economic transformations since 1949. Through an examination of the inter‐linkages between productive and reproductive activities across three generations, it reveals that unpaid reproductive work, performed unambiguously by women, has been central to China's economic modernization in both the Mao and Post‐Mao eras. The organization of this reproductive work among women inside the households of each generation since 1949 is influenced by a combination of factors including the patrilocal and patrilineal kinship system, the social welfare context and the economic processes of a particular era. While confirming existing scholarship on migration and agrarian change, by revealing the household as a site of gendered and intergenerational negotiation, this article disputes a linear generational power shift in agrarian transformations.

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Section: Social Reproductionmentioning

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Social reproduction in rural Chinese families: A three‐generation portrait

Liu

2024

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…So, for example, Tim Di Muzio widens the concept of social reproduction to encompass how any society/civilization reproduces itself over time. His definition of social reproduction includes ‘the ways in which any society produces, consumes and reproduces its life and lifestyles, how it conceptualizes and understands these actions and how it defends and/or justifies its particular pattern of historical development’ (Di Muzio 2012: 76).…”

Section: Toward a Conception Of Variegated Social Reproduction: Some mentioning

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Rethinking power, production, and social reproduction: Toward variegated social reproduction

Bakker¹,

Gill

2019

Capital & Class

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This special issue introduces new work, new perspectives, and engages in a dialogue to revisit, extend and go beyond the original central hypothesis of Power, Production and Social Reproduction (2003). That volume and its primary hypothesis focused upon the unfolding contradiction between the global accumulation of capital and the provision of stable and progressive conditions of social reproduction. It hypothesized a growing contradiction between the intensified power of capital and many life-making/sustaining processes, including the condition of bodies and the biosphere. Our original hypothesis conceptualized capital accumulation and social reproduction as interlinked although within different and contradictory moments in the same system or totality. We add to this here the concept of variegated social reproduction which refers to the historical and ontological variability of social reproduction - and its specific differentiations and varieties in contemporary globalized capitalism - stemming from concrete social, cultural, ecological and material practices and structures. Indeed, as the articles in the special issue reflect, the neoliberalization and commodification of social reproduction remains incomplete and not all-encompassing or determinant. As such, the introduction and the special issue also suggest new research agendas.

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“…One very large problem for addressing this in the future is posed by the power bloc formed by a set of large and interrelated vested interests of the state-owned and private energy corporations who wish to continue to profit from the world's over-dependence on fossil fuels and maintain the status quo with their investments, production and distribution strategies. As Tim Di Muzio (2012) points out the 'most optimistic scenario' of the International Energy Agency is for 18.6% of global energy to be developed from alternative (renewable) sources by 2030. It would require extra annual investment of $350-500 billion (only an average of $140 billion was invested in 2004-09).…”

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Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance

Gill¹

2015

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The crisis of petro-market civilization: the past as prologue?

Abstract: to transition to a post-fossil-fuel economy. The primary reason why this is so, I argue, is because solutions are informed by• a neoliberal governmentality that prioritizes economic growth, international market mechanisms and individual responsibility.

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Social reproduction in rural Chinese families: A three‐generation portrait

Social reproduction in rural Chinese families: A three‐generation portrait

Rethinking power, production, and social reproduction: Toward variegated social reproduction

Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance

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