ABSTRACT The relationships that hold community, work, and family together are globally diverse. This complexity is not always acknowledged, and the importance of local context and understandings are often missed. For the field to advance, new perspectives must be welcomed as they will shift boundary conditions of what is positioned as privileged. This will open space not only to add empirical richness but invites theoretical innovation. This paper draws on emerging theory from the global South. Southern theory holds the promise of new ways of understanding community, work, and family, not just as an add-on where Southern examples are provided. Taking account of global knowledge inequalities that have occasionally marginalised perspectives from the periphery, we can now develop new research agendas, new concepts and lexicons, and reframe research questions. These may disrupt what is currently assumed to be the status quo and provide scope for fresh questions and new answers. Putting Southern theory into practice in my own research on supporting breastfeeding at work among low-income mothers in South Africa, helped to emphasise the salience of context. I suggest an agenda for community, work, and family research that gives emphasis to the importance of location and the inequalities in knowledge production.

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南方的新事物：南非的社区，工作和家庭

摘要将社区，工作和家庭联系在一起的关系在全球范围内是多种多样的。这种复杂性并不总是得到认可，并且当地背景和理解的重要性经常被忽略。为了推动该领域的发展，必须欢迎新的观点，因为它们将改变特权所在的边界条件。这将开放空间，不仅可以增加经验丰富性，而且可以促进理论创新。本文借鉴了来自全球南方的新兴理论。南方理论为人们理解社区，工作和家庭提供了新的方法，而不仅仅是作为南方例子的补充。考虑到全球知识不平等现象有时被边缘化的观点所边缘化，我们现在可以制定新的研究议程，新概念和词典，并重新整理研究问题。这些可能会打乱目前假定的现状，并为新问题和新答案提供范围。在我自己的有关支持南非低收入母亲的母乳喂养的研究中，将南方理论付诸实践，这有助于强调背景的重要性。我建议一个有关社区，工作和家庭研究的议程，该议程应强调地理位置的重要性和知识生产中的不平等。