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.
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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 dra...
As wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that defined politics and spatial inequality there. Riding the currents of a neoliberal wave, these immigrants became the center of vigorous public controversies around planning, home building, multiculturalism, and the future of Vancouver. Because of their class status and their financial capacity to remake space in their own ways, they became the key to a reshaping of Vancouver through struggles that are necessarily both global and local in context,...
As wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that define...
A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils associated with breaching the town-gown divide.
Includes contributions from departments of geography, comparative literature, sociology, communications, history, English, public health, and biology
Discusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to make their ideas and research broadly accessible to a wider audience
Opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics--one based on grounded concepts and meaningful social...
A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils associated with breachin...
As neoliberalist logic sinks deeper into our society with each passing year, its impact on the education system increases. In Making Workers, Katharyne Mitchell argues that education, in a context of shifting spaces, narratives, actors, and values, plays a critical role in the social and political formation of youth. She argues that education is undergoing an imperative shift towards individual choice--in schools, faculty, technology, and curricula--that if unchecked will only further entrench the position of the private sector. Through a vibrant analysis of the effects of...
As neoliberalist logic sinks deeper into our society with each passing year, its impact on the education system increases. In Making Workers, K...
As neoliberalist logic sinks deeper into our society with each passing year, its impact on the education system increases. In Making Workers, Katharyne Mitchell argues that education, in a context of shifting spaces, narratives, actors, and values, plays a critical role in the social and political formation of youth. She argues that education is undergoing an imperative shift towards individual choice--in schools, faculty, technology, and curricula--that if unchecked will only further entrench the position of the private sector. Through a vibrant analysis of the effects of...
As neoliberalist logic sinks deeper into our society with each passing year, its impact on the education system increases. In Making Workers, K...
