Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches:

A Global Perspective

About Us

Our work seeks to pluralise Social Reproduction Approaches (SRA) by eschewing any singular ‘theory’ of reproduction and foregrounding the experiences of life-making across a diversity of Global South contexts, where the majority of the world live and labour. By working across disciplinary boundaries and interrogating the hierarchical relationship between the Global South/Global North, we aspire to draw on existing debates on social reproduction – pluralising their theoretical premises and extending their empirical reach – to build a progressive global agenda able to address the challenges to life-making processes that we are facing worldwide.

“Pluralising SRAs is the first step towards identifying the multiple and heterogenous ways in which the production of life is structured and operates under global capitalism and towards developing solidarities that are able to challenge capitalist oppressions and reclaim social reproduction”

- Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches, Mezzadri et al, International Feminist Journal of Politics, forthcoming