Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday

Juanita Elias, Adrienne Roberts, Juanita Elias, Adrienne Roberts

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351336079
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This collection interrogates the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered socio-economic practices at the level of the 'everyday'. It brings feminist insights to bear on the emerging International Political Economy (IPE) debates about 'the everyday', showing how gender is key to understanding how political economy is enacted and performed at the local level, by non-elites, and via various cultural practices. Drawing on 'everyday' IPE and a longer-standing body of feminist scholarship that documents and theorizes the mutually constitutive nature of, on the one hand, global markets, and on the other, households, families, relations of social reproduction and gendered socio-economic practices, this collection charts the lived realities of people and communities across a wide range of sites and spaces of the global political economy. It considers how globalizing capitalism affects and is in turn affected by Argentine sex workers, Nepalese private security contractors, Canadian call centre workers, Southeast Asian domestic workers, workers and players in British bingo halls, working class households in the UK, and much more. It demonstrates, through detailed empirical research, that a gender lens is crucial for understanding how, and on what terms, individuals and households are becoming ever more enmeshed in capitalist social relations, and how they actively and creatively resist these processes. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Globalizations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday: From Bananas to Bingo
• 2 Bingo Regulation and the Feminist Political Economy of Everyday Gambling: In Search of the Anti-Heroic
• 3 Everyday Matters in Global Private Security Supply Chains: A Feminist Global Political Economy Perspective on Gurkhas in Private Security
• 4 Producing Migrant Domestic Work: Exploring the Everyday Political Economy of Malaysia’s ‘Maid Shortage’
• 5 What’s on the Line?: Exploring the Significance of Gendered Everyday Resistance Within the Transnational Call Center Workplace
• 6 ‘To Finish, We Must Finish’: Everyday Practices of Depletion in Sri Lankan Export-Processing Zones
• 7 Uneven Divestment of the State: Social Reproduction and Sex Work in Neo-developmentalist Argentina
• 8 A Feminist Moral-Political Economy of Uneven Reform in Austerity Britain: Fostering Financial and Parental Literacy
• 9 Introduction to Discussion Forum: ‘Everyday’ Feminist Alternatives and Activism
• 10 Building Alternative Feminist Economic Futures: WHEELS
• 11 Faslane Peace Camp and the Political Economy of the Everyday
• 12 Feminist Challenges to Austerity
• 13 Plan F: Feminist Plan for a Caring and Sustainable Economy
• 14 Cracks in the Corporatisation of Feminism
• 15 Austerity Policies and the Feminist Movement in Spain
• Index