From social reproduction to production of social justice and sustainability of life. A dialogue between critical feminist economics, decolonial studies and popular economy

MARÍA ANTONIA MUÑOZ

Feminist Economics: Women, Work and the Home

Taylor & Francis Publisher, - Autonomous University of Coahuila

Año: 2024; p. 30 - 90

This paper engages a dialogue between the studies that start from critical feminist economics, decolonial studies and those associated with the social and popular economy to understand how both fields have understood the work. It analyses the consequences of these arguments around a series of social theoretical problems: the conceptualization around the structure, the functioning of capitalism and its forms of valorization and the identification of subaltern positions. Special attention is paid to the different ways of arguing how there are jobs that are not recognized or are undervalued in capitalism to think in different horizons of collective action. The conclusions suggest that social reproduction was a fruitful ground to argue the need to recognize unpaid domestic work, but the popular economy and decolonial studies goes beyond. These fields of studies offer the idea of non-salaried and community work as a source to understand the functioning current of neoliberal capitalism and de dark side of modernity. Also present an argument about the necessity of a model of “other” production that includes so called “social reproduction” and another kind of sustainability of life, social justice, etc. At the same time, both arguments serve to discuss ways to dispute material and social resources.