Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression by Tithi Bhattacharya

Author:Tithi Bhattacharya [Bhattacharya, Tithi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Reproduction, Economics, Politics, Political Economy, Non-Fiction, History
ISBN: 0745399886
Amazon: B0771LYTC4
Goodreads: 36583890
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2017-10-19T23:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSION

Institutional responses to that conflict—orphanages, schooling, the private family, prisons—tend by and large to discipline and disempower children. At the same time, because the social reproduction of labor does not take place under the direct control of capital and because children provide a window onto an alternative way of being, one that adults remember and are in fact also always repressing in order to maintain their own capitalist subjectivities—those institutions are also shaped by a noncapitalist impulse that prioritizes making space and time for meeting those expansive needs and inspiring those expansive potentialities. In other words, schools and families in particular are not simply reproducers of labor power. They are also reproducers of life. As such, they become sites of struggle over the types of determinations that will hold sway in the process of subject formation. Moreover, children themselves help shape their own social reproduction as they constantly negotiate between their more expansive, playful subjectivities and the denial or repression of these, as they too struggle to reproduce themselves as capitalist subjects. This negotiation is never resolved under capitalism. It cannot be resolved. But recognizing it is essential to understanding the nature of capitalist children and childhood and seeing capitalist children as producers—not just as consumers—of their world. Doing so not only valorizes children’s (nonreified) agency but also highlights the possibilities for greater freedom in struggles to change our world.

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