Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed the relevance of social reproduction as a key analytical lens to interrogate contemporary capitalist processes. Building on insights from distinct theoretical traditions, in this introductory contribution to the special issue in Feminist Global Political Economies of Work we propose social reproduction as a prism to examine labour and work in the Global South from a feminist standpoint. We develop a social reproduction-centred methodology to the study of labour processes and relations, based on combined insights from Feminist IPE (FIPE), Feminist Economics (FE), and Feminist Political Economy of Development (FPED). Insights from these three disciplinary frontiers of feminist work are well-equipped to analyse the complexities of labouring in the Global South and how reproductive dynamics co-constitute the 'everyday’ in the global economy in manifold ways. These include relations with the state and (‘crisis’ of) care provisions; the blending of productive and reproductive temporalities of work across labour processes; the continuum of paid/unpaid work within and beyond the household; and novel global processes of commodification of life and the everyday. In setting the contours of this ambitious agenda, we reflects on the complexity of feminist research methods; on positionality and ethics.

摘要

COVID-19 大流行证实了社会再生产作为审视当代资本主义进程的关键分析镜头的相关性。基于不同理论传统的见解，在对女性主义全球政治经济工作特刊的介绍性贡献中，我们提出将社会再生产作为棱镜，从女性主义的角度审视全球南方的劳动和工作。基于女权主义 IPE (FIPE)、女权主义经济学 (FE) 和女权主义发展政治经济学 (FPED) 的综合见解，我们开发了一种以社会再生产为中心的方法来研究劳动过程和关系。来自女权主义工作的这三个学科前沿的见解足以分析全球南方劳动的复杂性以及生殖动力学如何共同构成“ 每天都以多种方式参与全球经济。这些包括与国家的关系和（“危机”）护理规定；劳动过程中工作的生产性和再生产性的混合；家庭内外有偿/无偿工作的连续性；以及生活和日常生活商品化的新的全球进程。在设定这个雄心勃勃的议程的轮廓时，我们反思了女权主义研究方法的复杂性；关于地位和道德。在设定这个雄心勃勃的议程的轮廓时，我们反思了女权主义研究方法的复杂性；关于地位和道德。在设定这个雄心勃勃的议程的轮廓时，我们反思了女权主义研究方法的复杂性；关于地位和道德。