A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Peake, Linda, 1956- author.

Title: A feminist theory for our time : rethinking social reproduction and the urban /Linda Peake, Elsa Koleth, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Rajyashree N. Reddy & Darren Patrick.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2021. | Series: Antipode book series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020058509 (print) | LCCN 2020058510 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119789147(hardback) | ISBN 9781119789154 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119789185 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119789178 (epub) | ISBN 9781119789161 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Feminist theory. | Queer theory. | Sociology, Urban.

Classification: LCC HQ1190 .P43 2021 (print) | LCC HQ1190 (ebook) | DDC 305.42--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020058509LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020058510

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2 Series page

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 List of Contributors

6 Series Editors’ Preface

7 Preface

8 Chapter 1: rethinking social reproduction and the urbanIntroductionSocial ReproductionSocial Reproduction and the UrbanMaking the Urban Through Feminist Knowledge ProductionInfrastructuresSubjectivitiesDecolonizing Feminist Urban KnowledgeMethodologiesThe Limits of Social ReproductionCoda: Social Reproduction and the Urban During a PandemicReferences

9 Chapter 2: sociability and social reproduction in times of disaster Exploring the Role of Expressive Urban Cultural Practices in Haiti and Puerto RicoIntroductionThe Hidden Transcript of Resilience and Its Social Reproductive RootsSociability, Expressive Cultural Practice, and Social Reproduction in the CaribbeanSocial Reproduction and the Unbearable Subversions of Expressive Cultural Practice: Exploring the Power of Rabòday and PlenaThe Possibilities and Limits of Expressive Cultural Practice to Transformational ChangeReferences

10 Chapter 3: ‘never/again’: Reading the Qayqayt Nation and New Westminster in Public Poetry InstallationsIntroductionSocial Reproduction and the Urban in the Context of Settler ColonialismAsk Again: Authorship and a Short History of the QayqaytColonial Legibility and the Postmodern Media of RecognitionReferences

11 Chapter 4: gender in resistance: Emotion, Affective Labour, and Social Reproduction in AthensIntroductionProtest and Resistance in AthensFeminist Social Reproduction in the Context of Urban ActivismPlacing Social Reproduction in the Anti-authoritarian/ Anarchist CommonsThe Commons and the De-politicization of the PersonalAnarchist Commons: Performances and Cultures of Resistance and the Re-making of Safe SpacesPoliticizing Emotion: Dispossession and Empowering Practices of Social Reproduction in the UrbanConclusionReferences

12 Chapter 5: ‘Sustaining Lives is What Matters’: Contested Infrastructure, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Urban Praxis in CataloniaIntroductionPositionality and PraxisSocial Reproduction, Infrastructure, and the UrbanContested Catalonia#AguaParaEstherFeminist PraxisReproducing the Urban OtherwiseConclusionReferences

13 Chapter 6: global restructuring of social reproduction and its invisible work in urban revitalizationIntroductionA Landscape of New Inequalities in the Rustbelt and Its Social and Spatial TransformationSocial Reproduction and Its Global RestructuringRelational Framing and Radical Feminist Urban ScholarshipSocial Reproduction and Feminist Urban ScholarshipOutsourced Social Reproduction and Revitalization of Urban SpaceConclusionReferences

14 Chapter 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 JakartaIntroductionMethodology and PositionalityWater, the Urban, and Social ReproductionThe Privatization of Water and Anti-privatization Struggles in IndonesiaSolidaritas Perempuan Jakarta and Poor Women’s Rights to WaterLegal Challenges Against PrivatizationCommunity-based Research on the Impacts of PrivatizationConclusionReferences

15 Chapter 8: re-imagine urban antispaces! for a decolonial social reproductionIntroduction: Linking the ‘Anti-Politics Machine’ and Socio-Spacio-CideThe ‘Anti-Politics Machine’ in PalestineSocio-cide: Spatial Militarization and AntispacesRamallah’s Tomorrow: Between Individualisms and CommonsRefiguring and Reconfiguring for Resilience: Takhayyali [Imagine] RamallahReferences

16 Chapter 9: forced displacement, migration, and (trans)national care networks: Practices of Urban Space Production in Colombia and SpainIntroduction(Trans)national Care Networks, Social Reproduction, and Urban SpaceWar, Migration, and Care: Colombian Care Workers in SpainCommunitarian Mothers in ColombiaConclusionReferences

17 Chapter 10: tenga nehungwaru: Navigating Gendered Food Precarity in Three African Secondary Urban SettlementsIntroductionFood and Social Reproduction in African CitiesThe Consuming Urban Poverty (CUP) Project: Research Methods and Researcher PositionalityUrban Food Systems and Food Insecurity in Kitwe, Kisumu, and EpworthLived Urban Geographies of Food Access and Food Poverty in Kitwe, Kisumu, and EpworthMarital Status, Household Form, and Gendered OccupationsFood Procurement and AccessConclusionReferences

18 Chapter 11: infrastructures of social reproduction: Dialogic Collaboration and Feminist Comparative UrbanismIntroductionFeminist Urban Scholarship and Comparative UrbanismThinking Comparatively Between Córdoba and LondonDialogic CollaborationSituated KnowledgeSolidarityCollaborationIterationGendered Urban Struggles in Córdoba and LondonSubjectivationDemandsStrategyInfrastructures of Social Reproduction and the UrbanConclusionReferences

19 Index

20 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Observations of Kampung Residents Regarding...

2 Chapter 10Table 10.1 Hfiap Food Security Status by Household Type

1 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Eastern elevation: Plaza 88, New Westminster...Figure 3.2 Eastern elevation, Plaza 88: Entrance to...Figure 3.3 Southern elevation: Plaza 88. Poem by...Figure 3.4 ‘Tented roof’, Plaza 88...

2 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Illustration of the street network in a central...Figure 8.2 A typical apartment building in Ramallah....Figure 8.3 A view of Ramallah from alTireh...Figure 8.4 A typical new neighbourhood in Ramallah....Figure 8.5 Stormwater puddling in the antispace of...Figure 8.5 Stormwater puddling in the antispace of a...Figure 8.6a The first of two figures showing a...Figure 8.6b The Second of two figures showing schematic...

3 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 Location of the three cities in the...

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5 Table of Contents

6 List of Contributors

7 Series Editors’ Preface

8 Preface

9 Begin Reading

10 Index

11 End User License Agreement

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