Counterplanning in the Crisis of Social Reproduction

Bibliographic Data

ID4789366
AuthorsSilvia Federici (0000-0003-0522-5017), Campbell Jones (0000-0001-5597-9218)
Year2020
Volume119
Issue1
Pages153-165
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-8007713
OpenAlexW3004973892
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited1

In this interview Silvia Federici discusses the prospects for counterplanning from below in the current crisis of social reproduction. The organization of care and social reproduction by capital, in alliance with governmental and non-governmental organizations, has created massive structural suffering and devalued vital social activities from which capital extracts value for which it pays nothing. As this crisis of social reproduction has developed internationally and taken on increasingly racialized forms, new and different forms of struggle over social reproduction have arisen. Starting from the Wages for Housework campaign and her 1975 call for "Counter-planning from the Kitchen," Federici refines her thinking about the struggle over social reproduction and the reproductive commons today. She sketches the shifting grounds of the present crisis, and stresses what can be learned from current struggles over social reproduction in Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere, to organize and value social reproduction differently

Alliance · Biology · Nothing · Political science · Reproduction · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Ecology · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Political Economy and Marxism