Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time - Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Bericht

'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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elsa Koleth, darren patrick/dp, L Peake, Linda Peake, Linda (York University Peake, Linda Koleth Peake, Rajyashree N. Reddy, Gokboru Sarp Tanyildiz
• Mitarbeit: Els Koleth (Herausgeber), Elsa Koleth (Herausgeber), darren patrick/dp (Herausgeber), Linda Peake (Herausgeber), Rajyashree N. Reddy (Herausgeber), Gokboru Sarp Tanyildiz (Herausgeber), Gokboru Sarp Tanyildiz et al (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781119789154
• ISBN: 978-1-119-78915-4
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: Antipode Book Series; Antipode Book
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Soziologie, Feminismus, Geographie, Sociology, Geography, Stadtsoziologie, Gender & Sexuality, Stadtgeographie, Urban Sociology, Urban geography, Geschlecht u. Sexualität