Social Reproduction

Supporting social reproduction is central to the prospects of enduring peace

The hidden work of post-conflict recovery

By Jay Lingham and Melissa Johnston
Supporting social reproduction is central to the prospects of enduring peace.
Oct 2, 2019 – Social reproduction refers to the reproduction of social life, which includes biological reproduction, the unpaid production of goods and services in the home, social provisioning such as voluntary work to maintain communities, and the reproduction of culture and ideology. Such work is, by and large, undertaken by women, who also engage in paid productive work in the double shift of labour long identified by feminists.
> opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/hidden-work-post-conflict-recovery/

From Reimagining Communities to Communities Reimagining

By Laura Zuber
Jun 9, 2021 – Seen through a critical lens, capitalism, especially in its neoliberalised form, reveals itself as a cosmology, a value-system that acts with a parasitic, that is an expansive and extractive relationality on those within its reach, with the goal of infinite accumulation of profit. This extractive relationality furthermore has an explicitely colonial and heteronormative patriarchal quality, which shines light on why the global reproductive sphere is disproportionally made up by precarious Women and people of Colour – as opposed to the primary beneficiaries of this system. In order to sustain itself, capitalism then needs to extract more and more – theoretically infinitely more – from human (and other-than-human) regenerative life-forces that are by nature finite. Capitalism’s progressive eating itself through finite life-forces – unevenly across lines of inequality – is increasingly palpable even in Western heteronormative societies. And suddenly, the crisis of reproduction is everywhere and nowhere.
> kclrcir.org/from-reimagining-communities-to-communities-reimagining