Resistance Against and Beyond Financialisation from the Vantage Point of Social Reproduction

Abstract

This paper progresses research on resistance in the context of financialisation by drawing on various social reproduction legacies. I explore how social reproduction theory offers conceptual and methodological tools that can deepen research on de-financialisation and resistance against predatory finance. Expanding upon relational approaches to social reproduction, this paper frames “the financialisation of social reproduction” as the dialectics between the reproduction of financialised capitalism and the regeneration of life. This supports a perspective on resistance through the identification and analysis of the interplay between the objective and subjective limits to the financial extraction from life. I examine how methodologies like “counter-topographies” can demystify financialisation while supporting the cultivation of alternative geographies of finance. Through “financial counter-topographies”, I explore how global reproductive entanglements contradictorily fragment working-class interests across space while creating conditions to envision and cultivate de-alienated financial landscapes. This approach seeks possibilities for collective action and international collaborations beyond financialisation.