Labouring Geography in a Global Pandemic: Social Reproduction, Racial Capitalism and World-Making Praxis

Schling, H. and Rogaly, B. (2022) Labouring Geography in a Global Pandemic: Social Reproduction, Racial Capitalism and World-Making Praxis. Working Paper. University of Sussex.

Abstract

This paper is concerned with questions of praxis that are central to the subdiscipline of labour geography. Asking how the subdiscipline might engage the present conjuncture, we suggest that centring questions of social reproduction and historically contingent processes of racialisation is vital, and propose a praxis as labouring geographers which encompasses both situated processes of knowledge production, and activity as teachers, activists and workers – both within and beyond the institutions where we are employed. Our paper thus resonates strongly with calls by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and others for geographers to engage with the internationalist project of abolition of racial capitalism.

• Item Type: Research Reports or Papers (Working Paper)
• Additional Information: Sussex Centre for Migration Research. Working Paper 99. A revised version of this Working Paper has been accepted for the Handbook of Labour Geography edited by Andy Herod, which is due to be published by Edward Elgar in 2023.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Schling, Dr Hannah
• Authors: Schling, H., and Rogaly, B.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
• Publisher: University of Sussex