A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban
Redaktion: Peake, Linda; Patrick/Dp, Darren; Reddy, Rajyashree N.; Sarp Tanyildiz, Gokboru; Koleth, Elsa

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Produktbeschreibung

What does a feminist urban theory look like for the twenty first century? This book puts knowledges of feminist urban scholars, feminist scholars of social reproduction, and other urban theorists into conversation to propose an approach to the urban that recognises social reproduction both as foundational to urban transformations and as a methodological entry-point for urban studies. * Offers an approach feminist urban theory that remains intentionally cautious of universal uses of social reproduction theory, instead focusing analytical attention on historical contingency and social difference * Eleven chapters that collectively address distinct elements of the contemporary crisis in social reproduction and the urban through the lenses of infrastructure and subjectivity formation as well as through feminist efforts to decolonize urban knowledge production * Deepens understandings of how people shape and reshape the spatial forms of their everyday lives, furthering understandings of the 'infinite variety' of the urban * Essential reading for academics, researchers and scholars within urban studies, human geography, gender and sexuality studies, and sociology

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119789185
• Artikelnr.: 62584630

Autorenporträt

Linda Peake is Principal Investigator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant, Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb) and Director of the City Institute at York University, Toronto, Canada. Elsa Koleth is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the SSHRC Partnership Project Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb) at the City Institute at York University, Toronto, Canada. Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University, Canada. Rajyashree N. Reddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. darren patrick/dp is a writer, organizer, teacher, and Publications Manager and Editor for Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb) based at the City Institute at York University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors xi

Series Editors' Preface xiii

Preface xv

1 Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban 1
Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Linda Peake, Elsa Koleth, Rajyashree N. Reddy, darren patrick/dp, and Susan Ruddick

Introduction 1

Social Reproduction 5

Social Reproduction and the Urban 10

Making the Urban Through Feminist Knowledge Production 13

Infrastructures 13

Subjectivities 17

Decolonizing Feminist Urban Knowledge 21

Methodologies 25

The Limits of Social Reproduction 29

Coda: Social Reproduction and the Urban During a Pandemic 31

References 34

2 Sociability and Social Reproduction in Times of Disaster: Exploring the Role of Expressive Urban Cultural Practices in Haiti and Puerto Rico 42
Nathalia Santos Ocasio and Beverley Mullings

Introduction 42

The Hidden Transcript of Resilience and Its Social Reproductive Roots 47

Sociability, Expressive Cultural Practice, and Social Reproduction in the Caribbean 51

Social Reproduction and the Unbearable Subversions of Expressive Cultural Practice: Exploring the Power of Rabòday and Plena 53

The Possibilities and Limits of Expressive Cultural Practice to Transformational Change 56

References 61

3 'Never/Again': Reading the Qayqayt Nation and New Westminster in Public Poetry Installations 66
Emily Fedoruk

Introduction 66

Social Reproduction and the Urban in the Context of Settler Colonialism 69

Ask Again: Authorship and a Short History of the Qayqayt 74

Colonial Legibility and the Postmodern Media of Recognition 80

References 89

4 Gender in Resistance: Emotion, Affective Labour, and Social Reproduction in Athens 92
Mantha Katsikana

Introduction 92

Protest and Resistance in Athens 93

Feminist Social Reproduction in the Context of Urban Activism 96

Placing Social Reproduction in the Anti-authoritarian/Anarchist Commons 97

The Commons and the De-politicization of the Personal 101

Anarchist Commons: Performances and Cultures of Resistance and the Re-making of Safe Spaces 105

Politicizing Emotion: Dispossession and Empowering Practices of Social Reproduction in the Urban 107

Conclusion 110

References 112

5 'Sustaining Lives is What Matters': Contested Infrastructure, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Urban Praxis in Catalonia 115
James Angel

Introduction 115

Positionality and Praxis 117

Social Reproduction, Infrastructure, and the Urban 119

Contested Catalonia 121

#AguaParaEsther 123

Feminist Praxis 126

Reproducing the Urban Otherwise 130

Conclusion 132

References 134

6 Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Its Invisible Work in Urban Revitalization 138
Faranak Miraftab

Introduction 138

A Landscape of New Inequalities in the Rustbelt and Its Social and Spatial Transformation 140

Social Reproduction and Its Global Restructuring 143

Relational Framing and Radical Feminist Urban Scholarship 144

Social Reproduction and Feminist Urban Scholarship 147

Outsourced Social Reproduction and Revitalization of Urban Space 150

Conclusion 153

References 157

7 From the Kampung to the Courtroom: A Feminist Intersectional Analysis of the Human Right to Water as a Tool for Poor Women's Urban Praxis in Jakarta 162
Meera Karunananthan

Introduction 162

Methodology and Positionality 163

Water, the Urban, and Soci

Rezensionen

'Our time is fraught--global, intimate, differentiated--lived at different speeds with different horizons, but its insecurities and possibilities place social reproduction at its heart. This collection creatively and incisively reveals how centering social reproduction as theory and method reshapes the social ontology of the urban. Across sites and scales, an international group of authors offer compelling and original analyses of the material social practices and struggles that make social reproduction such a resonant frame to reimagine and remake urban social life so that it sings with possibility.'
Cindi Katz, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Environmental Psychology at The City University of New York, Graduate Center, USA