Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction

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Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction

Editor(s): Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A. Marston, Cindi Katz

Published Online: 13 APR 2012

Print ISBN: 9781405111348

Online ISBN: 9781444397468

DOI: 10.1002/9781444397468

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Life's Work is a study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era. The volume blurs the heavily drawn boundaries between production and reproduction, showing through case studies of migration, education and domesticity how the practices of everyday life challenge these categorical distinctions.


  • New and innovative study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era.

  • Investigates changing conceptions of subjectivity, national identity and modernity.

  • Focuses on both theoretical and practical issues.

  • Includes case studies on migration, education and domesticity.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–x)

    1. Life's Work: An Introduction, Review and Critique (pages 1–26)

      Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A. Marston and Cindi Katz

  3. Part 1: Education and the Making of the Modern (Trans)national Subject

    1. Chapter 1

      Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks (pages 27–46)

      John Morgan

    2. Chapter 2

      Indigenous Professionalization: Transnational Social Reproduction in the Andes (pages 47–74)

      Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe

    3. Chapter 3

      Producing the Future: Getting To Be British (pages 75–94)

      Jean Lave

  4. Part 2: Domesticity and Other Homely Spaces of Modernity

    1. Chapter 4

      Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: “Family-Centered” Birth and the Emergence of “Homelike” Birthing Rooms (pages 95–118)

      Maria Fannin

    2. Chapter 5

      Adolescent Latina Bodyspaces: Making Homegirls, Homebodies and Homeplaces (pages 119–140)

      Melissa Hyams

    3. Chapter 6

      Of Fictional Cities and “Diasporic” Aesthetics (pages 141–161)

      Rosemary Marangoly George

  5. Part 3: Modern Migrants/Flexible Citizens: Cultural Constructions of Belonging and Alienation

    1. Chapter 7

      Valuing Childcare: Troubles in Suburbia (pages 163–184)

      Geraldine Pratt

    2. Chapter 8

      Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor (pages 185–202)

      Altha J Cravey

    3. Chapter 9

      Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation-State (pages 203–225)

      Alison Mountz

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      Index (pages 227–233)

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