Lifes Work Geographies Of Social Reproduction Katharyne Mitchell by Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A. Marston, Cindi Katz 9781405111348, 9781444397468, 1405111348, 144439746X instant download after payment.
Life's Work is a study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era. The volume blurs the heavily drawn boundaries between production and reproduction, showing through case studies of migration, education and domesticity how the practices of everyday life challenge these categorical distinctions.
- New and innovative study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era.
- Investigates changing conceptions of subjectivity, national identity and modernity.
- Focuses on both theoretical and practical issues.
- Includes case studies on migration, education and domesticity.
Content:
Chapter 1 Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks (pages 27–46): John Morgan
Chapter 2 Indigenous Professionalization: Transnational Social Reproduction in the Andes (pages 47–74): Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe
Chapter 3 Producing the Future: Getting To Be British (pages 75–94): Jean Lave
Chapter 4 Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: “Family?Centered” Birth and the Emergence of “Homelike” Birthing Rooms (pages 95–118): Maria Fannin
Chapter 5 Adolescent Latina Bodyspaces: Making Homegirls, Homebodies and Homeplaces (pages 119–140): Melissa Hyams
Chapter 6 Of Fictional Cities and “Diasporic” Aesthetics (pages 141–161): Rosemary Marangoly George
Chapter 7 Valuing Childcare: Troubles in Suburbia (pages 163–184): Geraldine Pratt
Chapter 8 Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor (pages 185–202): Altha J Cravey
Chapter 9 Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation?State (pages 203–225): Alison Mountz
