[News] Reminder: CfP RC21 Antwerp: Social reproduction in hypercommodified homes

[Eva Kuschinski]

Lieber AK,

hier nochmal ein Reminder an unsere Session bei der RC21, sie passt auch 
ganz gut zum aktuellen Rundmail-Call zu feministischer politischer 
Ökonomie :)

Liebe Grüße, Eva


>
> Call for Papers for ISA RC21 conference, Antwerp, 6-8 July 2020
>
> Social reproduction in hypercommodified homes (session #89)
>
> Session organizers:Eva Kuschinski, HafenCity University: 
> eva.kuschinski at hcu-hamburg.de; Leon Rosa Reichle, Centre for Urban 
> Research on Austerity, De Montfort University: leon.reichle at dmu.ac.uk
>
>
> Within critical social science, the housing question has been 
> historically marginalized over (other) workplace struggles (Gray, 
> 2018). The home as a workplace of racialized and gendered reproductive 
> labour has been treated as secondary to matters of (industrial) 
> production. Even urban studies most often centre around “public” 
> space, workplace struggles or, when considered specifically with 
> housing, its role as an asset. This is paralleled by the 
> marginalization of women’s presences, participation and leadership of 
> social struggles around housing (Hughes, Wright, 2018). Symbolic for a 
> dominance of androcentric perspectives in society, academia and 
> unfortunately many political struggles, the question of the 
> reproductive sphere, its relevance for capitalism and social relations 
> in total, and hence its strategic position for transformative politics 
> has been either ignored or treated as a separate and secondary issue. 
> Ignorant of ground-breaking analytical and political feminist work 
> (Dalla Costa, 2019; Federici, 2012, 2004) demonstrating the centrality 
> of relations of social reproduction in capitalism, even critical 
> housing scholars have neglected in-depth analyses of questions around 
> racialized and gendered relations of social reproduction, at most 
> mentioning them in passing (Aalbers, Christophers, 2014).
>
> While feminist accounts of social reproduction (Bhattacharya, Vogel, 
> 2017) are reviving in the face of deepening multiple crises and social 
> inequalities, systematic feminist analyses of the housing question 
> remain sporadic (Roberts, 2013; Watson, 1986).
>
> We believe that a lot is to be learnt from reconceptualizing critical 
> housing scholarship through the prism of  social reproduction. In 
> doing so, we suggest considering relational approaches, linking the 
> micro-social sphere of the household to societal relations of 
> reproduction. Whereas critical social theories on the 
> neoliberalization of work have long emphasized its relational effects 
> as competitive, divisive and isolating (Sennett, 1998), we are curious 
> about relational analyses on the neoliberalization of housing.
>
> Hence we propose to reconsider relations of reproduction and relations 
> around the sphere of social reproduction as an entrypoint to critical 
> urban analysis. In homes, the centres of daily lives, relations of 
> social reproduction meet institutions of private property, the 
> dominant relation-way of capitalism (Adamczak, 2017). In contexts of 
> state withdrawal and increasing housing financialization, this 
> encounter is often violent. As reproductive spaces are politically 
> turned into scarce market goods on an internationally competitive 
> housing market, we are interested in the consequences for social and 
> reproductive relations on different scales.
>
> Within these transformations, what is the role of historically 
> gendered relations within the reproductive sphere of the home?
>
> How to theorize (increasingly financialized) housing as the site of 
> commodified yet precarious and multiply marginalized care labour?
>
> How can we understand the role of current and historical struggles for 
> the right to housing as reproductive struggles; struggles for spaces 
> securing the basic reproduction of human life?
>
> How can we conceive of these as intersectional class struggles?
>
> How to theorize racialized exclusion from the housing market within 
> these struggles?
>
> How does the reproduction of social relations change within these 
> developments?
>
> How are reproductive relations stabilized or changed, progressively or 
> regressively within such struggles?
>
> How can we navigate the different scales of relations of reproduction 
> within the home, the neighbourhood, the city, globally?
>
> We invite theoretical or empirical paper presentations that centre 
> around reproductive relations in a context marked by the increasing 
> hypercommodification of housing. These can be concerned with social 
> struggles, with the impacts of housing neoliberalization on 
> (intersectional) relations of reproduction, with (the changing 
> reproduction of) urban communities, with theoretical (and empirical) 
> approaches to the changing role of the state in social reproduction 
> and anything else you wish to surprise us with!
>
> We hope to hear from four presenters and leave ample time for 
> discussion at the end, to discuss controversies, draw links, consider 
> abstractions or define specificities. Therefore we ask you to keep 
> your presentations to 15 minutes strict.
>
> Please contact us with any questions or uncertainties, we are 
> excitedly looking forward to your abstracts!
>
> Submission details: Please submit your abstract (max 250 words) until 
> 15 Marchvia the following 
> link:https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/rc21-sensing-the-city/call-for-papers/submit-your-abstract/ 
>
> -- 
> Eva Kuschinski M. A.
> Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | Research and Teaching Associate
> Geschichte und Theorie der Stadt| History and Theory of the City
>
> Bürozeiten: Di - Do | Office Hours: Tue - Thu
>
> HafenCity Universität Hamburg
> Überseeallee 16, Raum 4 128
> 20457 Hamburg
> +49(0) 40/42827-5208

-- 
Eva Kuschinski M. A.
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | Research and Teaching Associate
Geschichte und Theorie der Stadt| History and Theory of the City

Bürozeiten: Di - Do | Office Hours: Tue - Thu

HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Überseeallee 16, Raum 4 128
20457 Hamburg
+49(0) 40/42827-5208

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