Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time

Linda Peake is Principal Investigator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant, Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb) and Director of the City Institute at York University, Toronto, Canada.Elsa Koleth is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the SSHRC Partnership Project Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb) at the City Institute at York University, Toronto, Canada.Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University, Canada.Rajyashree N. Reddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada.darren patrick/dp is a writer, organizer, teacher, and Publications Manager and Editor for Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb) based at the City Institute at York University, Canada.

‘Our time is fraught—global, intimate, differentiated—lived at different speeds with different horizons, but its insecurities and possibilities place social reproduction at its heart. This collection creatively and incisively reveals how centering social reproduction as theory and method reshapes the social ontology of the urban. Across sites and scales, an international group of authors offer compelling and original analyses of the material social practices and struggles that make social reproduction such a resonant frame to reimagine and remake urban social life so that it sings with possibility.’Cindi Katz, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Environmental Psychology at The City University of New York, Graduate Center, USA

• List of Contributors xiSeries Editors’ Preface xiiiPreface xv1 Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban 1Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Linda Peake, Elsa Koleth, Rajyashree N. Reddy, darren patrick/dp, and Susan RuddickIntroduction 1Social Reproduction 5Social Reproduction and the Urban 10Making the Urban Through Feminist Knowledge Production 13Infrastructures 13Subjectivities 17Decolonizing Feminist Urban Knowledge 21Methodologies 25The Limits of Social Reproduction 29Coda: Social Reproduction and the Urban During a Pandemic 31References 342 Sociability and Social Reproduction in Times of Disaster: Exploring the Role of Expressive Urban Cultural Practices in Haiti and Puerto Rico 42Nathalia Santos Ocasio and Beverley MullingsIntroduction 42The Hidden Transcript of Resilience and Its Social Reproductive Roots 47Sociability, Expressive Cultural Practice, and Social Reproduction in the Caribbean 51Social Reproduction and the Unbearable Subversions of Expressive Cultural Practice: Exploring the Power of Rabòday and Plena 53The Possibilities and Limits of Expressive Cultural Practice to Transformational Change 56References 613 ‘Never/Again’: Reading the Qayqayt Nation and New Westminster in Public Poetry Installations 66Emily FedorukIntroduction 66Social Reproduction and the Urban in the Context of Settler Colonialism 69Ask Again: Authorship and a Short History of the Qayqayt 74Colonial Legibility and the Postmodern Media of Recognition 80References 894 Gender in Resistance: Emotion, Affective Labour, and Social Reproduction in Athens 92Mantha KatsikanaIntroduction 92Protest and Resistance in Athens 93Feminist Social Reproduction in the Context of Urban Activism 96Placing Social Reproduction in the Anti-authoritarian/Anarchist Commons 97The Commons and the De-politicization of the Personal 101Anarchist Commons: Performances and Cultures of Resistance and the Re-making of Safe Spaces 105Politicizing Emotion: Dispossession and Empowering Practices of Social Reproduction in the Urban 107Conclusion 110References 1125 ‘Sustaining Lives is What Matters’: Contested Infrastructure, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Urban Praxis in Catalonia 115James AngelIntroduction 115Positionality and Praxis 117Social Reproduction, Infrastructure, and the Urban 119Contested Catalonia 121#AguaParaEsther 123Feminist Praxis 126Reproducing the Urban Otherwise 130Conclusion 132References 1346 Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Its Invisible Work in Urban Revitalization 138Faranak MiraftabIntroduction 138A Landscape of New Inequalities in the Rustbelt and Its Social and Spatial Transformation 140Social Reproduction and Its Global Restructuring 143Relational Framing and Radical Feminist Urban Scholarship 144Social Reproduction and Feminist Urban Scholarship 147Outsourced Social Reproduction and Revitalization of Urban Space 150Conclusion 153References 1577 From the Kampung to the Courtroom: A Feminist Intersectional Analysis of the Human Right to Water as a Tool for Poor Women’s Urban Praxis in Jakarta 162Meera KarunananthanIntroduction 162Methodology and Positionality 163Water, the Urban, and Social Reproduction 164The Privatization of Water and Anti-privatization Struggles in Indonesia 169Solidaritas Perempuan Jakarta and Poor Women’s Rights to Water 171Legal Challenges Against Privatization 172Community-based Research on the Impacts of Privatization 174Conclusion 178References 1818 Re-imagine Urban Antispaces! for a Decolonial Social Reproduction 186Natasha AruriIntroduction: Linking the ‘Anti-Politics Machine’ and Socio-Spacio-Cide 186The ‘Anti-Politics Machine’ in Palestine 190Socio-cide: Spatial Militarization and Antispaces 192Ramallah’s Tomorrow: Between Individualisms and Commons 200Refiguring and Reconfiguring for Resilience: Takhayyali [Imagine] Ramallah 203References 2119 Forced Displacement, Migration, and (Trans)national Care Networks: Practices of Urban Space Production in Colombia and Spain 215Camila Esguerra Muelle, Diana Ojeda, and Friederike FleischerIntroduction 215(Trans)national Care Networks, Social Reproduction, and Urban Space 217War, Migration, and Care: Colombian Care Workers in Spain 221Communitarian Mothers in Colombia 225Conclusion 229References 23210 Tenga Nehungwaru: Navigating Gendered Food Precarity in Three African Secondary Urban Settlements 236Belinda Dodson and Liam RileyIntroduction 236Food and Social Reproduction in African Cities 239The Consuming Urban Poverty (CUP) Project: Research Methods and Researcher Positionality 241Urban Food Systems and Food Insecurity in Kitwe, Kisumu, and Epworth 244Lived Urban Geographies of Food Access and Food Poverty in Kitwe, Kisumu, and Epworth 247Marital Status, Household Form, and Gendered Occupations 247Food Procurement and Access 251Conclusion 255References 25811 Infrastructures of Social Reproduction: Dialogic Collaboration and Feminist Comparative Urbanism 262Tom Gillespie and Kate HardyIntroduction 262Feminist Urban Scholarship and Comparative Urbanism 263Thinking Comparatively Between Córdoba and London 265Dialogic Collaboration 268Situated Knowledge 269Solidarity 270Collaboration 271Iteration 272Gendered Urban Struggles in Córdoba and London 273Subjectivation 273Demands 275Strategy 276Infrastructures of Social Reproduction and the Urban 279Conclusion 280References 281Index 285