I was selected to participate in Antipode’s 9th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ): “Radical Geographies of Social Reproduction” in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA from June 3-7, 2024. Many thanks to Kate Derickson and Marion Werner for organizing the meeting and to the invited faculty fellows, Kiran Asher, Beverly Mullings, Bradley Wilson, Diana Ojeda, and Priscilla Ferreira, for facilitating excellent conversations around radical geographies of social reproduction. Below are some images and reading lists on social reproduction that were compiled by the participants for the meeting.

Social Reproduction Reading List

Bakker, I. and Gill, S. (2019) Rethinking power, production, and social reproduction: Toward variegated social reproduction. Capital & Class 43(4): 503-523.

Rodríguez-Rocha, V. (2021) Social Reproduction Theory: State of the field and new directions in geography. Geography Compass, e12586. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12586

Winders, J., & Smith, B. E. (2019). Social reproduction and capitalist production: A genealogy of dominant imaginaries. Progress in Human Geography, 43(5), 871-889. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518791730

Goffe, R., & Luke, N. (2024). What does capital consume? Racial capitalism and the social reproduction of surplus people. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X241251671

Katz, C. (2001). Vagabond capitalism and the necessity of social reproduction. Antipode, 33(4), 709-728.

Miraftab, F. and Huq, E. (2024) Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development. EPD: Society and Space. DOI: 10.1177/02637758241230179

Aruri, N. (2021). Re‐Imagine Urban Antispaces! for a Decolonial Social Reproduction. In L. Peake et al.’s (eds.) A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban (186-214). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Asher, K. and Shattuck, A. (2017) Forests and food security: What’s gender got to do with it? Social Sciences 6(1): 34.

Chattopadhyay, S. (2018). Violence on bodies: Space, social reproduction and intersectionality. Gender, Place & Culture, 25(9), 1295–1304. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1551783

Fernandez, B. (2018). Dispossession and the depletion of social reproduction. Antipode, 50(1), 142-163.

Ferreira, P. (2022) Racial capitalism and epistemic injustice: Blindspots in theory and practice of solidarity economy in Brazil. Geoforum 132: 229-237.

Goldstein, A. (2022) “In the constant flux of its incessant renewal: The social reproduction of racial capitalism and settler colonial entitlement.” In S. Koshy et al.’s Colonial Racial Capitalism (pp. 60-87). Durham: Duke University Press.

Gore, E. (2024) Towards a trans-inclusive critical international political economy? Or why trans oppression matters for understanding capitalism and social reproduction. Capital & Class. DOI: 10.1177/03098168241232371

Hall, S. M. (2020). Social reproduction as social infrastructure. Soundings, 76(76), 82-94.

Kwan, H. (2022). Women’s solidarity, communicative space, the gig economy’s social reproduction and labour process: the case of female platform drivers in China. Critical Sociology, 48(7-8), 1221-1236.

Mullings, B. (2021) Caliban, social reproduction and our future yet to come. Geoforum 118: 150-158.

Ojeda, D. (2021) Social reproduction, dispossession, and the gendered workings of agrarian extractivism in Colombia. Pp. 85-98). Routledge.

Shah, A. and Lerche, J. (2020) Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India. Transactions 45: 719-734.

Werner, M., Strauss, K., Parker, B., Orzeck, R., Derickson, K., Bonds, A. (2017) Feminist political economy in geography: Why now, what is different, and what for? Geoforum, 79: 1-4.

Wilson, B. (2013) Breaking the chains: Coffee, crisis, and farmworker struggle in Nicaragua. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 45(1): 2592-2609.

Multi-Media Sources:

Social Reproduction in Theory and Practice: Socialist Feminism and the Politics of Care (Podcast )

Anti- Capitalist Chronicles: Social Reproduction (YouTube) Part 1 and Part 1

Tithi Bhattacharya | What is Social Reproduction Theory? (YouTube)

Social Reproduction, Racial Capitalism, and the State (YouTube)

Readings for Session 1: Social Reproduction & Praxis

Nagar, R. and Shirazi, R. (2019) Radical Vulnerability Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50

McKane, R. G. et al (2024) Mutual Aid as a Praxis for Critical Environmental Justice: Lessons from W.E.B. Du Bois, Critical Theoretical Perspectives, and Mobilising Collective Care in Disasters Antipode

Wakefield, S. (2007) Reflective Action in the Academy: Exploring Praxis in Critical Geography using a “Food Movement” Case Study Antipode

Readings for Session 4: Activist-Scholar Strategies

(These are bilingual sources in English and Portuguese.)

Articulacão de Mulheres Negras Brasileiras. (2009) Marchas das mulheres negras.

R. E. dos Santos’ (ed.) (2012) Questões urbanas e racism.

Readings for Session: Social Reproduction and Theory

Aruri N (2021) Re-imagine Urban Antispaces! For a Decolonial Social Reproduction. In Peake L et al (eds) A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons Ltd: 227-258.

Best B (2021) Wages for Housework redux: Social reproduction and the utopian dialectic of the value form. Theory & Event 24(4): 896-921.

Bhattacharya T (2017) “Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory”, in Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression, ed. T Bhattacharya, London: Pluto Press, pp: 68-93.

Collard RC & Dempsey (2020) Two icebergs: Difference in feminist political economy. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(1), 237-247.

Davis A Y (1971) The Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves, The Black Scholar 3(4), 2-15.

Ebner N & Johnson K M (2020) Blood and borders: Geographies of social reproduction in Ciudad Juárez–El Paso. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(2), 498-514.

Ferguson S (2016) Intersectionality and social-reproduction feminisms: Toward an integrative ontology. Historical Materialism, 24(2), 38-60.

Fraser N (2014) Behind Marx’s hidden abode, New Left Review 86: 55-72. 

Goffe R & Luke N (2024) What does capital consume? Racial capitalism and the social reproduction of surplus people. Environment and Planning A, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X241251671.

Mezzadri A (2021) A value theory of inclusion: Informal labour, the homeworker, and the social reproduction of value. Antipode, 53(4), 1186-1205.

Mies M (1986) “Colonialization and housewifization,” in Patriarchy and accumulation on a world scale: Women in the international division of labour. London: Zed Books: 74-111.

Miraftab F (2011) Faraway intimate development: Global restructuring of social reproduction. Journal of Planning Education and Research 31(4): 392-405.

Moore JW (2018) The Capitalocene Part II: accumulation by appropriation and the centrality of unpaid work/energy. The Journal of Peasant Studies 45(2): 237-279.

Mullings B (2021) Caliban, Social Reproduction and Our Future Yet to Come, Geoforum, 118, 150-158.

Naidu S (2023) “Circuits of social reproduction: nature, labor, and capitalism.” Review of Radical Political Economics 55(1): 93-111.

Raha N (2021) A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction in ed. JJ Gleason and E O’Rourke, Transgender Marxism London: Pluto Press, pp: 85-115.

Roberts D (1997) Spiritual and menial housework, Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, 9(1), 51-80.

Scholz R (2014) “Patriarchy and commodity society: gender without the body,” in Larsen N et al. Marxism and the critique of value. Chicago: MCM’ Publishing.

Tzul Tzul G (2015) Mujeres indígenas: Historias de reproducción de la vida en Guatemala. Una reflexión a partir de la visita de Silvia Federici. Bajo el Volcán 15(22): 91-99.

Valiavicharska Z (2020) Social Reproduction in the Making: Recentering the Margins, Expanding the Directions, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 22(2).