Making futures in Oaxaca

Remittances in the diverse economies of social reproduction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8964149
AutoresAraby Smyth (0000-0002-9488-6871, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, The City Institute York University Toronto Ontario Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen49
Número2
Fecha de publicación2024-01-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12659
OpenAlexW4390918054
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas54

In this article, I analyse intermingling economically productive and reproductive work at the global and local scale through the lens of how remittances are folded into the communal social relations of one Indigenous community in Oaxaca. Scholars have illustrated the many ways that social reproduction is reconfigured through transnational labour migration, and troubled the categorisation of economically productive and socially reproductive labour. Expanding on their work, I engage with scholarship about Indigenous communal governance in Guatemala and Mexico, particularly the theories of Gladys Tzul Tzul on reproduction, in order to present new insights into feminist geographical knowledge of diverse economies and social reproduction. Drawing on ethnographic methods, I present three empirical examples, which illustrate how the intermingling of economic production and reproduction of communal life make Indigenous futures. I argue that large‐scale reproductive activities, such as those deployed by the community, produce values beyond capitalist circuits of production and that it is how remittances are inserted into the local communal economies that render the money valuable for reproducing life and securing a future

Biology · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Futures contract · Geography · Indigenous · Political economy · Production (economics · Reproduction · Scale (ratio · Scholarship · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Sex work and related issues