Bringing life's work to market: Frontiers, framings, and frictions in marketised social reproduction

IF 4.6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI:10.1177/0308518x231187402

Emily Rosenman, Jessa M. Loomis, Dan Cohen, T. Baker

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Abstract

The introduction to this theme issue discusses a series of papers examining the increasing marketisation of social reproduction and its effects on systems that sustain human and social life. This is done by examining the frontiers, framings, and frictions that arise when market systems are constructed to enable capital accumulation in the realm of social reproduction. Frontiers identify the expansion of market logic into new areas, framings explore how financial actors attempt to bring the logic of social reproduction within the purview of market competition, and frictions highlight the various tensions that generate resistance to the roll out of market logics. Through establishing these three areas, we argue that both market structures and systems of social reproduction should be understood as geographically variegated and, at times, uncertain. This variegation necessitates an understanding of marketised social reproduction as forged through complex articulations of market and non-market logics. Using cases from surrogacy to smart electricity meters, the papers in this theme issue illustrate that while these articulations may generate benefits for some individuals, households and communities, such processes of marketisation can introduce new layers of inequity and undermine the ethical relations and social commitments that sustain life—in the service of enabling accumulation.

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把生活的工作推向市场:市场社会再生产中的前沿、框架和摩擦

本主题问题的导言讨论了一系列研究社会再生产日益市场化及其对维持人类和社会生活的系统的影响的论文。这是通过检查边界、框架和摩擦来完成的，当市场体系被构建以使资本积累在社会再生产领域时，这些边界、框架和摩擦就会出现。边界确定了市场逻辑向新领域的扩展，框架探讨了金融行为者如何试图将社会再生产的逻辑引入市场竞争的范围内，摩擦强调了对市场逻辑推出产生阻力的各种紧张关系。通过建立这三个领域，我们认为市场结构和社会再生产系统都应该被理解为地理上的多样化，有时是不确定的。这种多样化需要理解通过市场和非市场逻辑的复杂衔接而形成的市场化社会再生产。从代孕到智能电表，本主题的论文说明，虽然这些联系可能会给一些个人、家庭和社区带来好处，但这种市场化过程可能会引入新的不平等层面，破坏维持生活的伦理关系和社会承诺，从而促进积累。

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Multiple-

CiteScore

9.50

自引率

9.50%

发文量

100

期刊介绍： Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space is a pluralist and heterodox journal of economic research, principally concerned with questions of urban and regional restructuring, globalization, inequality, and uneven development. International in outlook and interdisciplinary in spirit, the journal is positioned at the forefront of theoretical and methodological innovation, welcoming substantive and empirical contributions that probe and problematize significant issues of economic, social, and political concern, especially where these advance new approaches. The horizons of Economy and Space are wide, but themes of recurrent concern for the journal include: global production and consumption networks; urban policy and politics; race, gender, and class; economies of technology, information and knowledge; money, banking, and finance; migration and mobility; resource production and distribution; and land, housing, labor, and commodity markets. To these ends, Economy and Space values a diverse array of theories, methods, and approaches, especially where these engage with research traditions, evolving debates, and new directions in urban and regional studies, in human geography, and in allied fields such as socioeconomics and the various traditions of political economy.