Social reproduction theory is a big idea. It explores how the daily renewal of human life, and therefore human labour, is essential to capitalism. Here, leading feminists come together to apply the theory to one of its most extreme settings – that of Palestine.
Israel’s settler colonialism is premised on the eradication of Palestinian lives, undermining Palestinian social reproduction at every turn. This project, which ramped up after October 7th, does have a logic, and by examining the concrete, historically specific details, the authors begin to reshape and refine the theory of Social Reproduction, shedding light on why Israel’s assault is so brutal.
Chapters look at Israel’s mass murder of a generation of Palestinians in Gaza, the effects of ecocide, the relationship between land dispossession and class, Israel’s selective pronatalism, scholasticide and other topics. By understanding this deadly logic, we can look deeper into the heart of the evils of capitalism, and stand in solidarity with Palestine.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword – Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Introduction - Tithi Bhattacharya and Susan Ferguson
1. Gaza: Care, Hope and Genocide – Asmaa Abu Mezied (Oxfam and Al-Shabaka Policy Network)
2. Childhood and social reproduction in Palestine: They didn’t know we were seeds - Mai Abu-Moghli (Centre for Lebanese Studies) and Rachel Rosen (University College London)
3. The Colonial Rift: Affirming Life in times of Ecocidal Warfare – Layal Ftouni (Utrecht University) and Omar Jabary Salamanca (Columbia University and Ghent University)
4. Anticolonialism as Class Struggle: An SRT Account - Tal-Hi Bitton (University of Oregon)
5. From “Selective Pronatalism” to “Genocide”: The Dialectics of Assisted Reproduction in Israel/Palestine – Siggie Vertommen (University of Amsterdam and Ghent University), Weeam Hammoudeh (Birzeit University), Michal Nahman (University of the West of England), and Rodante van der Waal (University of Humanistic Studies and independent midwife)
6. Scholasticide: Targeting Collective Life-making and Resistance – Susan Ferguson (Wilfrid Laurier University)
7. Checkpoints and the governance of social reproduction the West Bank – Jemima Repo (Newcastle University)
8. An Antiracist Feminist Politics of Elemental Needs – Françoise Vergès (University College London)
9. ‘I Forgot to die:’ Thinking through Social Reproduction of Palestinian Life – Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue University)
Circa l’autore
Susan Ferguson is Associate Professor Emerita at Wilfrid Laurier University and a Research Affiliate at the University of Houston. She is the author of Women and Work: Social Reproduction, Feminism and Labour. She serves on the editorial board of the webzine, Midnight Sun, and is a coordinating committee member of Scholars Against the War on Palestine and a member of Faculty for Palestine, Canada. She lives in Texas.
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