The political economy of the household: Neoliberal restructuring, enclosures, and daily life

LeBaron, Genevieve

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“…Within feminist international political economy, these insights have increasingly coalesced around social reproduction: the biological reproduction of the species, the reproduction of the labour force, and the reproduction and provision of caring needs (Bakker, 2007;LeBaron, 2010). More recent scholarship has explicitly cast feminist IR as part of an 'everyday turn' by highlighting the way in which feminist scholars have consistently analysed 'the co-constitutive nature of everyday gendered social relations and gendered global power relations' (Elias and Roberts, 2016, p. 11;see also Enloe, 2011).…”

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Introduction: Everyday narratives in world politics

Stanley

Jackson

2016

Politics

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Political science and international relations scholarship increasingly places substantive emphasis on, to put it broadly, the power of discourse in shaping world politics. This special issue develops a research agenda that seeks to consolidate a set of data collection and analysis strategies that can be used in studying the way in which elite-driven discourses are legitimated and challenged; in other words, an agenda for studying everyday narratives in world politics. In doing so, the special issue makes a threefold contribution: it analyses how key themes with world politics are reproduced and narrated; it demonstrates the need to go beyond 'methodological elitism' in understanding narratives, legitimacy and world politics;and it highlights some of the methodological and practical issues in researching everyday narratives. In this introductory article, we situate the special issue within a critique of constructivist methodology broadly conceived, conceptualise everyday sites of politics, and finally, provide an overview of the articles in the issue.

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Section: Conceptualising the Everydaymentioning

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Introduction: Everyday narratives in world politics

Stanley

Jackson

2016

Politics

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“…Bakker 2007;Feministische Autorinnengruppe 2013;Hartsock 2006;LeBaron 2010;Mies 2014;Soiland 2016). Silvia Federici (2012b) accordingly calls women the "shock absorber" of neoliberal globalisation.…”

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Marxist Perspectives on the Global Enclosures of Social Reproduction

Beier

2018

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Women's unpaid care and domestic work is gaining relevance in policy-making as well as in academia. Feminist scholars and activists have lobbied successfully for the integration of unpaid care and domestic work into the Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 5.4) of the United Nations in the hope for greater recognition of women's contribution to the economy. Policy documents about social reproduction highlight women's disproportionate share of reproductive activities as an obstacle to women's economic empowerment and as a relic of 'traditional' gender roles. Social reproduction is thereby not understood as a merit in itself, but as an obstacle to women's participation in paid labour. Policy implications will enable certain empowerment effects for some women, but at the same time promote the increasing privatization and commodification of reproductive work across the globe. Rising inequalities between the Global North and South and between women along the categories of class and race will be one major result. To theoretically explain such contradictory effects of the recognition of social reproduction, I use the concept of 'enclosures' based on Marx' 'primitive accumulation'. Feminist scholars use the concept to explain how unpaid care and housework is commodified or de-commodified to integrate women into the paid labour force or to reduce the costs of social reproduction according to the needs of the economy. The sudden interest in unpaid care and domestic work e.g. in the Sustainable Development Goals can therefore be seen as process of double enclosure, which integrates women into the paid labour force, but also sets the grounds for the further commodification of domestic and care work. This paper aims to critically discuss the sudden interest in unpaid domestic and care work and its contradictory effects from a Marxist feminist perspective and reflects on feminist strategies and movements in global governance. After introducing Marxist perspectives on social reproduction, the question if and how feminist ideas and concepts have been appropriated, the effects and implications of global policies on social reproduction and global inequalities, as well as possible counter-strategies will be discussed. Acknowledgement: I want to thank Karin, my mother, who did all the reproductive work during her Christmas holidays while I was working on this article. I also want to thank my dear friends Deborah Sielert, Moritz Altenried, Bernardo Bianchi, Frank Engster and Martin Fries for their useful and encouraging comments, as well as Sarah Hönig and Dominik Arncken for their linguistic and other support. Special thanks go to Tove Soiland, who not only provided useful comments, but also inspired the entire article with her work and seminars on feminist perspectives on the concept of Landnahme (enclosure).

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“…These socially determined claims are possible only because of the application of industrial valuation in society as a whole (including reproductive activities). Enclosures, extraction, and marketization of relations and matter outside of markets give rise to claims on the social product, nature, knowledge, and the industrial arts of the community by virtue of creating commodities ("vested interests" or "free income" as Veblen calls them) salesmanship, restriction of output, and seizure of natural resources (Marx [1867(Marx [ ] 1990Veblen 1923;Polanyi [1944Polanyi [ ] 1957Galbraith 2008;Robertson 2008;LeBaron 2010;Nadal 2011).…”

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From Monetary Theory of Production to Culture-Nature Life Process: Feminist-Institutional Elaborations of Social Provisioning

Todorova

2014

SSRN Journal

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The article seeks to contribute to the literature on social provisioning as an organizing concept in heterodox economics. Particularly, the article details social provisioning as an amalgamation of processes and as a part of a system of culture-nature life process. First, the article delineates a categorization of social provisioning activities with respect to motivation in their organizationmonetary and non-monetary, emphasizing the differences, as well as links between those. Second, the article discusses valuation of social activities, applying institutional theory. Third, the concept of a social process is delineated. It is argued that the concept captures agency and structure without reducing one to the other, and allows for theorizing open-endedness of social provisioning. The fourth section offers a categorization of processes and briefly explains each one of those, conceptualizing social provisioning within a historical culture-nature life process. Finally, the article concludes.

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The political economy of the household: Neoliberal restructuring, enclosures, and daily life

Cited by 95 publications

References 18 publications

Introduction: Everyday narratives in world politics

Introduction: Everyday narratives in world politics

Marxist Perspectives on the Global Enclosures of Social Reproduction

From Monetary Theory of Production to Culture-Nature Life Process: Feminist-Institutional Elaborations of Social Provisioning

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