2024 Publications & Works
Urbanizing Social Reproduction: (Re)thinking the Politics of Care in Capitalist Urban Development
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-5-2024
Publication Title
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Abstract
Feminist social reproduction scholarship has shown how reproductive labor is critical in understanding the evolving dynamics of global capitalism. However, more work is needed to explicate the spatial dimension of this relationship to understand the various modalities through which social reproduction is enrolled in capitalist city-making processes and how these modalities are contested. Drawing on observations from multiple sites ranging from cities in the US to Mexico, we offer three examples to highlight strategies capitalist urban development uses to make care work invisible and marginal: bantustanization, gentrification, and informalization. In light of these spatial strategies that co-opt social reproduction in capitalist accumulation projects, we aspire to rethink the work of care in urban development and the possibilities to decouple it from the drive for profits through cross-sectoral coalition building and solidarity.
DOI
10.1177/026377582412301
Recommended Citation
Miraftab, Faranak and Huq, Efadul, "Urbanizing Social Reproduction: (Re)thinking the Politics of Care in Capitalist Urban Development" (2024). Article, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/celebratingfacultyscholarship2024pubs/4