Social Reproduction and Care in Situated Contexts

Abstract

While the scholarship on social reproduction often operates at a relatively abstract and conceptual level, this panel shifts the focus to the local and community level and to situated practices. It addresses in particular the way in which state and governance efforts shape what is made im/possible in local contexts. Case studies include promising Kenyan efforts, such the organization of child care programmes in a Kenyan market and the work of community paralegals in responding to the HIV crisis in Nairobi. They also include the more cautious tales of deinstitutionalization and austerity in Canada, and of the state surveillance of care labour through digitalization in India. The panel surfaces the need for studies of social reproduction to connect the care provided to the labor relations that make such care possible.

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