A of Capital & Class, edited by Isabella Bakker and Stephen Gill, sets out to broaden the analysis of social reproduction. Following their earlier volume on social reproduction 鈥� (2003) 鈥� Bakker and Gill restate in this issue their commitment to 鈥榓 novel methodological synthesis premised upon the mutual constitution of power, production, and social reproduction鈥� (2019, p. 510), and reassert the centrality of 鈥榯he unfolding contradiction between the global accumulation of capital and the provision of stable and progressive conditions of social reproduction鈥� (p. 504) to their analysis.聽
The key contribution of this issue, however, is twofold. First, it further develops the theory of social reproduction, advancing a conception of social ontology based around a new concept: variegated social reproduction. Second, it contributes to the analysis of contemporary neoliberalism as a whole 鈥� and in particular, to discussions around variegated neoliberalism 鈥� mapping out how this latter variegation is internally linked to that of social reproduction. In this post I will briefly review these contributions, focussing on the articles of the special issue that deal with cases outside of Western Europe and North America to highlight different geographies鈥� contributions to the discussion of social reproduction.聽Read More »
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