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A Conversation with Stephen Graham Jones: Horror, Weird Fiction and the Way of Slashers, with Sopapillas for Dessert.
Full text linkAn interview/conversation between Stephen Graham Jones and Billy J. Stratton, which took place in Denver on October 24, 2022
Social Reproduction and Financial Extractivism : Third Annual Lecture in the Laws of Social Reproduction, 16 September 2022
No full textWith the increasing financialization of the reproduction of life, the reproductive relation is shown, more than ever, to be the space of valorization and accumulation par excellence. This is due to the fact that in order for finance to be able to invade and colonize the sphere of social reproduction, first it must systematically dispossess the infrastructure of public services, common resources, and the economies capable of guaranteeing an autonomous reproduction (from peasant economies to self-managed economies, from cooperative elements to popular-communitarian ones). Above all it is a dispute over the temporality of exploitation: finance implicates obedience in the future and, therefore, functions as an 'invisible' and homogenizing 'boss' of the multiple tasks capable of producing value. Many feminist scholars suggest that the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism has shifted to reflect an even greater global reliance on reproductive labor. This raises the question: Why is neoliberalism mutating in this way
Expression, Oppression and Queer Bodies: A pilot study exploring the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ medical students in the UK.
Full text linkThis article details a qualitative study exploring the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ medical students in one university in the UK. Few studies exist, especially those that ARTICLES AJPP Vol 4, No1 (2023) 2 directly include LGBTQ+ voices, that explore the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ medical students. Those that exist suggest that there are significant, ongoing problems with heteronormativity in medical schools and society and more could be done to appropriately support this student population during their medical studies. Therefore, in this study the author set about exploring the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ medical students using first-person narratives to capture their lives in their own words. The author used an adapted qualitative methodology and method underpinned by philosophical concepts including post[1]structuralism and materialism to realise their study aims. Outcomes showed that fear and violence but also subversion of heteronorms, community formation and protection, and ‘queer joy’ were a significant part of the students’ lived experiences. Interpretive understandings also illustrated perceptions of ‘queer bodies’ as other and/or normative and intersectional repression and oppression as an ongoing, significant experience for participants. Here the author understands queer bodies to be constantly redefined understandings of queer identity emerging from entangled relationships between gender and sexuality ‘norms’. In line with intersectionality and decolonisation literature the author argued that medical curriculum is an act of LGBTQ+ related, epistemic violence and highlighted the importance of intersectionality and intersectional transdisciplinarity in enacting change in this respect. Finally, it is argued, in line with participants’ documented experiences that queerness and ‘’queer bodies’ are both personal and community experiences/entities and awareness of this relationship is important for re-considering LGBTQ+ related stigma and healthcare inequality.
 
Older adults learning to use digital technology: A case study approach.
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Introduction to Laws of Social Reproduction Lectures
Full text linkPrabha Kotiswaran introduces the following three lectures by Kerry Rittich (2020), Silvia Federici (2021) and Veronica Gago (2022), which emanated from an EU-supported research project titled 'Laws of Social Reproduction'
Visibility and Value at Work: The Legal Organization of Productive and Reproductive Work: First Annual Lecture in the Laws of Social Reproduction, 18 August 2020
No full textFeminists have long troubled the status of reproductive work, arguing for the recognition of its value and the sharing of its burdens. International initiatives like the new ILO Domestic Workers Convention seek to de-exceptionalize domestic work by giving presence, voice and power to millions of 'invisible workers', while support for unpaid work is now identified as a target of the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet the simultaneous endorsement of policies and practices of market entrepreneurialism, favoured to advance development and gender empowerment, risks intensifying distinctions between paid and unpaid workers, along with the economic and political inequality that travels with it. In this context, we need to shift our gaze to how differences between productive and reproductive work are made and maintained. Here I discuss four ways to think about legal rules: as behavioural incentives; as devices to allocate resources, risks and powers; as tools to (re)shape the domains of home and work; and as norms that legitimate hierarchical social and economic arrangements. Examining law in this way reveals how the flow of risks and resources, burdens and benefits is organized across home and market and provides a window on the mechanisms by which productive and reproductive work are distinguished, shaped and valued. Making a wide range of economic as well as social laws and policies visible as part of the law of social reproduction, this legal analysis provides a bridge to the work of activists and scholars in other disciplines and helps identify perils and chart future possibilities for those engaged simultaneously in unpaid and market work
International Economic Law and the Hidden Abode of Social Reproduction
Full text linkIn this essay I argue that a Social Reproduction lens provides us with invaluable resources for thinking about the role that International Economic Law (IEL) plays in the re/production of global inequalities and planetary injustices. Drawing on critical conversations between ‘Wages for and against housework’, intersectional feminisms, and ‘Third world approaches to International Law’ (TWAIL), I point to three insights in particular. The first is about the mythical separation of the sphere of production from that of social reproduction under capitalism for the purpose of extracting value and accumulating capital, with IEL involved in constantly re/drawing the boundaries between these spheres. The second insight concerns the centrality of unpaid and devalued labour in transnational production, with IEL contributing to the invisibilisation and/or devaluation of specific forms of labour and the overvaluation of others. The third insight is about the role that social hierarchies and divisions, sustained in and through law, play in processes of labour exploitation and devaluation on the one hand and value extraction and capital accumulation on the other
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