1st Edition

Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday

Edited By Juanita Elias, Adrienne Roberts Copyright 2018
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

This collection interrogates the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered socio-economic practices at the level of the ‘everyday’. It brings feminist insights to bear on the emerging International Political Economy (IPE) debates about ‘the everyday’, showing how gender is key to understanding how political economy is enacted and performed at the... Read more

1. Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday: From Bananas to Bingo

Juanita Elias and Adrienne Roberts

2. Bingo Regulation and the Feminist Political Economy of Everyday Gambling: In Search of the Anti-Heroic

Kate Bedford

3. Everyday Matters in Global Private Security Supply Chains: A Feminist Global Political Economy Perspective on Gurkhas in Private Security

Amanda Chisholm and Saskia Stachowitsch

4. Producing Migrant Domestic Work: Exploring the Everyday Political Economy of Malaysia’s ‘Maid Shortage’

Juanita Elias and Jonathon Louth

5. What’s on the Line?: Exploring the Significance of Gendered Everyday Resistance Within the Transnational Call Center Workplace

Stephanie M. Redden

6. ‘To Finish, We Must Finish’: Everyday Practices of Depletion in Sri Lankan Export-Processing Zones

Samanthi J. Gunawardana

7. Uneven Divestment of the State: Social Reproduction and Sex Work in Neo-developmentalist Argentina

Kate Hardy

8. A Feminist Moral-Political Economy of Uneven Reform in Austerity Britain: Fostering Financial and Parental Literacy

Johnna Montgomerie and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage

Forum: ‘Everyday’ Feminist Alternatives and Activism

9. Introduction to Discussion Forum: ‘Everyday’ Feminist Alternatives and Activism

Adrienne Roberts

10. Building Alternative Feminist Economic Futures: WHEELS

Melissa S. Fisher

11. Faslane Peace Camp and the Political Economy of the Everyday

Catherine Eschle

12. Feminist Challenges to Austerity

Mary-Ann Stephenson

13. Plan F: Feminist Plan for a Caring and Sustainable Economy

Diane Elson

14. Cracks in the Corporatisation of Feminism

Catia Gregoratti

15. Austerity Policies and the Feminist Movement in Spain

Eva Palomo

Biography

Juanita Elias is Reader in International Political Economy at Warwick University, UK. Her research and teaching interests concern the political economy of Southeast Asia, migration, the gendered political economy of the household and feminist approaches to International Political Economy more broadly. Recent work has appeared in Globalizations, Asian Studies Review, Politics and Gender and International Political Sociology. She is co-editor with Lena Rethel of The everyday political economy of Southeast Asia (2016) and co-editor with Samanthi J. Gunawardana of The global political economy of the household in Asia (2013).

Adrienne Roberts is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests are in the areas of international political economy, feminist political economy, gender and finance, debt and debt-driven development, and the criminalization of poverty. She is author of Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of The Handbook of International Political Economy of Gender (forthcoming 2017). Recent work has also been published in journals that include Research in Political Economy, Globalizations, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and International Feminist Journal of Politics.