Accumulation, excess, childhood : toward a countertopography of risk and waste

This piece grows out of my on-going project, 'Childhood as Spectacle', and my enduring concern with social reproduction and what it does for and to Marxist and other critical political-economic analyses. After more than 30 years of Marxist-feminist interventions around these issues, sympto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Katz, Cindi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:70411
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/70411
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/dag.806
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Childhood
Play
Risk
Crisis
Capitalism
Infància
Joc
Risc
Crisi
Capitalisme
Infancia
Juego
Riesgo
Capitalismo
Enfance
Jeu
Risque
Crise
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Sumario:This piece grows out of my on-going project, 'Childhood as Spectacle', and my enduring concern with social reproduction and what it does for and to Marxist and other critical political-economic analyses. After more than 30 years of Marxist-feminist interventions around these issues, symptomatic silences around social reproduction remain all too common in analyses of capitalism. Working through these issues and their occlusion, I offer what I hope is a useful and vibrant theoretical framework for examining geographies of children, youth, and families. Building this framework calls into play three overlapping issues; neoliberal capitalism in crisis and David Harvey's notion of accumulation by dispossession, my ideas around childhood as spectacle, as a cultural formation associated with contemporary political economic crisis and its figuration of the child as waste, and how this figuration might be turned around to find libratory potential in and from the site of children's play and time.