Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction - Cindi Katz
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2019.158736Keywords:
Social reproduction, globalization, childhood, place, geographic scaleAbstract
In this article Cindi Katz raises an intrinsic problem of the globalized capitalist production: the disengagement with places and their inhabitants, reinforcing inequalities of class, gender, race. The author discusses this problem in a singular way through a materialist approach on social reproduction. As globalization, social reproduction is examined in its political-economic, political-ecological, and cultural aspects. In an illustrated case about children and public spaces in New York, she develops the concept of rescaling of children, and shows us how specific geographies interconnect with global processes through geographic scales, and translocally. Katz proposes, furthermore, the concepts of topography and counter-topography, which are ways of analysing the intersection of global processes and their geographically unequal social costs, as well as political tools for reconstructing translocal and internationalist solidarities against this errant and irresponsible globalized capitalism.
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