In this panel we explore how feminist approaches to the urban, long focused on social reproduction, in the current juncture, need to engage with the social reproduction of the planet itself. Social reproduction is at work in many sites and scales beyond the urban—including bodily, territorial, land-based, regional, and ecological, to name but a few. Proceeding from a focus on social justice, panelists will discuss feminist approaches to social reproduction from a variety of socio-spatial ontologies and from a range of orientations—including but not limited to anti-racist, anti-colonial, trans, eco-justice and indigenous perspectives—in order to understand how social reproduction is configuring both the urban and its constitutive outside.
Moderator: Elsa Koleth, York University
A Feminist Urban Theory for our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction, the Urban and its Constitutive Outside Linda Peake, York University; Darren Patrick, York University ; Rajyashree N. Reddy, University of Toronto ; Susan Ruddick, University of Toronto; Gökbörü Tanyildiz, York University
Community and Social Reproduction: Rethinking the Local Turn in Leftist Politics in Korea through the Case of the Community Childcare Co-op Movement Laam Hae, York University
Infrastructures of Donor Breast Milk: Urbanization, Anticolonialism, and Distributed Reproduction in Brazil Carolyn Prouse, University of British Columbia
