R Farri
Biographic Data
| ID | 14872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Farri |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Farri |
| SIGNATURE | FARRI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9819-3370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Racial borderscapes and the ungrounding of migrant life: Thinking with space, gender and labour
This article intervenes in debates on contemporary border politics by advancing the analytic of racial borderscapes and foregrounding the political economy that structures contemporary bordering regimes. Building on scholarship that understands borders as core to the production of unequal socio-spatial relations, we argue that borderscapes produce racialised differentiation that regulates and diminishes life chances through the combined operation…
Corporatisation and financialisation of social reproduction: Care homes and childcare in the United Kingdom
The ownership and financial strategies of companies providing care for children or older people have become an increasingly salient concern, in both research and policy, because of their implications for the quality and availability of care services, as well as working conditions. However, analysis has tended to be sector specific. This article provides the first comparison of ownership, business models and workforces across childcare and adult s…
Towards a critique of care fetishism: Social reproduction feminism and the ethics of care
Recently, there has been a notable rise in scholarly publications, research projects and public discussions engaging with care ethics and social reproduction feminism. However, despite their shared focus on caring activities, these two feminist traditions diverge significantly in their theoretical foundations and political implications. The primary distinction lies in their conceptualization of care itself: whereas care ethics emphasizes the affe…
The Phantasm of Gender - Judith Butler, Who’s afraid of gender? (London, Penguin, 2024, 307 p)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Low-skill no more! essential workers, social reproduction and the legitimacy-crisis of the division of labour
Workers in the realm of social reproduction – e.g. nurses, carers, cleaners, food preparation workers etc. – are considered low-skill and are poorly remunerated. During the Covid-19 crisis they have been recast as ‘essential’, leading to unprecedented praise and attention in public discourse. Nonetheless, public praise for these ‘essential’ workers so far has not translated into a commitment for higher wages and improved working conditions. In th…
Weber: Religion, nation and empire
Colonialism figures in the work of Max Weber in multiple forms. While in his professorial address he supported internal colonialism as the antidote against the threat represented by the immigration of foreigners, in the writings on world religions colonialism appears as displacement, amnesia and Freudian slip. Colonial subjects in particular are portrayed as personalities unable to develop the mentality that would help them to free themselves fro…
The business of care: Private placement agencies and female migrant workers in London
This article presents the results of a qualitative research project on private domestic and care placement agencies in London. Although there is a paucity of empirical studies on these private actors, they have become increasingly important in the domestic and care sector in the UK. In a context of growing commodification and marketization, the article shows how domestic and care services constitute an extremely profitable ‘industry’ in which lar…
In the Name of Womens Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism
Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as “femonationalism.” She shows that by characterizing Muslim males as dangerous to western soc…
From the Commodification to the Corporatization of Care: European Perspectives and Debates
Recent developments in western Europe show that for-profit companies of different sizes, including large multinational firms, are increasingly investing in care and buying significant shares within the ongoing privatization of national health and care systems. Reflecting upon these developments, this article argues that the current reconfiguration of care is driven not only by processes of commodification and marketization but also by complex mec…
Migrants' Regular Army of Labour: Gender Dimensions of the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Migrant Labor in Western Europe
The purpose of this article is to remedy the lack of explanatory endeavours concerning the positive performance of female migrant workers during the recent economic crisis in Western Europe. This phenomenon both interrogates the established association between economic downturns and their negative impact on migrant labour in low-skilled jobs and enriches the theory of the reserve army of labour, which has been applied to understanding the fragile…
From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question. Republican Rigorism, Culturalist Differentialism and Antinomies of Enforced Emancipation
Discontinuous intersections: Second-Generation Immigrant Girls in Transition From School to Work
This article provides a theoretical framework for analysing discrimination against second-generation immigrant girls in education and the labour market by proposing an intersectional approach. Drawing upon selected elements of the findings of our Neskak Gora Project - a qualitative research conducted between 2009 and 2011 in Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK and funded by the EC Daphne III Programme - we show that the inte…
Max Weber’s Theory of Personality: Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion
Religion as the source of the self: Max Weber’s hypothesis
Amidst the recent resurgence of interest in religion as one of the main ‘sources of the self’, Max Weber’s argument in the Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie can make an important contribution. The importance of individuation 1 to the rise of capitalism in Weber’s account has usually been related to the process of autonomisation of the individual from the ‘community of blood’ that took place in the Jewish-Christian tradition in the West.…
Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women
Research Article| October 01 2012 Femonationalism and the "Regular" Army of Labor Called Migrant Women Sara R. Farris Sara R. Farris Sara R. Farris lectures at King's College London and is Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her main areas of research are international migration, particularly female migration, classical and contemporary social and political theory, gender studies and intersectionality…
Workerism’s Inimical Incursions: On Mario Tronti’s Weberianism
This article considers the engagement of Mario Tronti - one of the leading figures of classical Italian workerism [ operaismo ] - with the thought of Max Weber. Weber constituted one of Tronti’s most important cattivi maestri . By analysing Weber’s influence upon Tronti’s development, this article aims to show the ways in which this encounter affected his Marxism and political theory in general. In particular, during the period of the debate in I…
Die politische Ökonomie des Femonationalismus
In recent years nationalist-xenophobic parties but also neo-liberal governments across Europe have increasingly deployed notions related to gender equality in order to depict male Muslim citizens – and male non-Western migrants more in general – as unable to respect women’s rights. Recent discourses about multiculturalism and integration have correspondingly been strongly marked by demands for migrants to adapt to Western culture and values; one …
An ‘Ideal Type’ Called Orientalism: Selective Affinities between Edward Said and Max Weber
Edward Said's Orientalism was first published in 1978. In this work, Said demolished the myths of the Orient that had been made famous by colonial literature as well as by European social sciences, revealing the intrinsically Eurocentric nature of discourses on the non-European ‘Other’. Though this influential work has been often praised, criticized and compared at the most disparate levels, there has not yet been an attempt to analyse the Orient…
New and Old Spirits of Capitalism
The reorganization of labour relations and production that has occurred in the past few decades has been accompanied by a shift in the set of values, or ethics, that are supposed to guide the lives of individuals. Just as Fordism shaped its own working ethic, in which industriousness and specialization, rigidity, and the monotony of the labour process were compensated by the incentives of security and the guarantee of a new consumption pattern, p…
Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion. A Critique of Rational Choice
Comparing Religions. Possibilities and Perils
Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women
Research Article| October 01 2012 Femonationalism and the "Regular" Army of Labor Called Migrant Women Sara R. Farris Sara R. Farris Sara R. Farris lectures at King's College London and is Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her main areas of research are international migration, particularly female migration, classical and contemporary social and political theory, gender studies and intersectionality…
From the Commodification to the Corporatization of Care: European Perspectives and Debates
Recent developments in western Europe show that for-profit companies of different sizes, including large multinational firms, are increasingly investing in care and buying significant shares within the ongoing privatization of national health and care systems. Reflecting upon these developments, this article argues that the current reconfiguration of care is driven not only by processes of commodification and marketization but also by complex mec…
Migrants' Regular Army of Labour: Gender Dimensions of the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Migrant Labor in Western Europe
The purpose of this article is to remedy the lack of explanatory endeavours concerning the positive performance of female migrant workers during the recent economic crisis in Western Europe. This phenomenon both interrogates the established association between economic downturns and their negative impact on migrant labour in low-skilled jobs and enriches the theory of the reserve army of labour, which has been applied to understanding the fragile…
From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question. Republican Rigorism, Culturalist Differentialism and Antinomies of Enforced Emancipation
Discontinuous intersections: Second-Generation Immigrant Girls in Transition From School to Work
This article provides a theoretical framework for analysing discrimination against second-generation immigrant girls in education and the labour market by proposing an intersectional approach. Drawing upon selected elements of the findings of our Neskak Gora Project - a qualitative research conducted between 2009 and 2011 in Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK and funded by the EC Daphne III Programme - we show that the inte…
Max Weber’s Theory of Personality: Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion
The business of care: Private placement agencies and female migrant workers in London
This article presents the results of a qualitative research project on private domestic and care placement agencies in London. Although there is a paucity of empirical studies on these private actors, they have become increasingly important in the domestic and care sector in the UK. In a context of growing commodification and marketization, the article shows how domestic and care services constitute an extremely profitable ‘industry’ in which lar…
Low-skill no more! essential workers, social reproduction and the legitimacy-crisis of the division of labour
Workers in the realm of social reproduction – e.g. nurses, carers, cleaners, food preparation workers etc. – are considered low-skill and are poorly remunerated. During the Covid-19 crisis they have been recast as ‘essential’, leading to unprecedented praise and attention in public discourse. Nonetheless, public praise for these ‘essential’ workers so far has not translated into a commitment for higher wages and improved working conditions. In th…
Die politische Ökonomie des Femonationalismus
In recent years nationalist-xenophobic parties but also neo-liberal governments across Europe have increasingly deployed notions related to gender equality in order to depict male Muslim citizens – and male non-Western migrants more in general – as unable to respect women’s rights. Recent discourses about multiculturalism and integration have correspondingly been strongly marked by demands for migrants to adapt to Western culture and values; one …
Workerism’s Inimical Incursions: On Mario Tronti’s Weberianism
This article considers the engagement of Mario Tronti - one of the leading figures of classical Italian workerism [ operaismo ] - with the thought of Max Weber. Weber constituted one of Tronti’s most important cattivi maestri . By analysing Weber’s influence upon Tronti’s development, this article aims to show the ways in which this encounter affected his Marxism and political theory in general. In particular, during the period of the debate in I…
Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion. A Critique of Rational Choice
Towards a critique of care fetishism: Social reproduction feminism and the ethics of care
Recently, there has been a notable rise in scholarly publications, research projects and public discussions engaging with care ethics and social reproduction feminism. However, despite their shared focus on caring activities, these two feminist traditions diverge significantly in their theoretical foundations and political implications. The primary distinction lies in their conceptualization of care itself: whereas care ethics emphasizes the affe…
Weber: Religion, nation and empire
Colonialism figures in the work of Max Weber in multiple forms. While in his professorial address he supported internal colonialism as the antidote against the threat represented by the immigration of foreigners, in the writings on world religions colonialism appears as displacement, amnesia and Freudian slip. Colonial subjects in particular are portrayed as personalities unable to develop the mentality that would help them to free themselves fro…
Comparing Religions. Possibilities and Perils
Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion. A Critique of Rational Choice
An ‘Ideal Type’ Called Orientalism: Selective Affinities between Edward Said and Max Weber
Edward Said's Orientalism was first published in 1978. In this work, Said demolished the myths of the Orient that had been made famous by colonial literature as well as by European social sciences, revealing the intrinsically Eurocentric nature of discourses on the non-European ‘Other’. Though this influential work has been often praised, criticized and compared at the most disparate levels, there has not yet been an attempt to analyse the Orient…
New and Old Spirits of Capitalism
The reorganization of labour relations and production that has occurred in the past few decades has been accompanied by a shift in the set of values, or ethics, that are supposed to guide the lives of individuals. Just as Fordism shaped its own working ethic, in which industriousness and specialization, rigidity, and the monotony of the labour process were compensated by the incentives of security and the guarantee of a new consumption pattern, p…
Workerism’s Inimical Incursions: On Mario Tronti’s Weberianism
This article considers the engagement of Mario Tronti - one of the leading figures of classical Italian workerism [ operaismo ] - with the thought of Max Weber. Weber constituted one of Tronti’s most important cattivi maestri . By analysing Weber’s influence upon Tronti’s development, this article aims to show the ways in which this encounter affected his Marxism and political theory in general. In particular, during the period of the debate in I…
Die politische Ökonomie des Femonationalismus
In recent years nationalist-xenophobic parties but also neo-liberal governments across Europe have increasingly deployed notions related to gender equality in order to depict male Muslim citizens – and male non-Western migrants more in general – as unable to respect women’s rights. Recent discourses about multiculturalism and integration have correspondingly been strongly marked by demands for migrants to adapt to Western culture and values; one …
Religion as the source of the self: Max Weber’s hypothesis
Amidst the recent resurgence of interest in religion as one of the main ‘sources of the self’, Max Weber’s argument in the Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie can make an important contribution. The importance of individuation 1 to the rise of capitalism in Weber’s account has usually been related to the process of autonomisation of the individual from the ‘community of blood’ that took place in the Jewish-Christian tradition in the West.…
Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women
Research Article| October 01 2012 Femonationalism and the "Regular" Army of Labor Called Migrant Women Sara R. Farris Sara R. Farris Sara R. Farris lectures at King's College London and is Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her main areas of research are international migration, particularly female migration, classical and contemporary social and political theory, gender studies and intersectionality…
Max Weber’s Theory of Personality: Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion
Migrants' Regular Army of Labour: Gender Dimensions of the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Migrant Labor in Western Europe
The purpose of this article is to remedy the lack of explanatory endeavours concerning the positive performance of female migrant workers during the recent economic crisis in Western Europe. This phenomenon both interrogates the established association between economic downturns and their negative impact on migrant labour in low-skilled jobs and enriches the theory of the reserve army of labour, which has been applied to understanding the fragile…
From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question. Republican Rigorism, Culturalist Differentialism and Antinomies of Enforced Emancipation
Discontinuous intersections: Second-Generation Immigrant Girls in Transition From School to Work
This article provides a theoretical framework for analysing discrimination against second-generation immigrant girls in education and the labour market by proposing an intersectional approach. Drawing upon selected elements of the findings of our Neskak Gora Project - a qualitative research conducted between 2009 and 2011 in Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK and funded by the EC Daphne III Programme - we show that the inte…
In the Name of Womens Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism
Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as “femonationalism.” She shows that by characterizing Muslim males as dangerous to western soc…
From the Commodification to the Corporatization of Care: European Perspectives and Debates
Recent developments in western Europe show that for-profit companies of different sizes, including large multinational firms, are increasingly investing in care and buying significant shares within the ongoing privatization of national health and care systems. Reflecting upon these developments, this article argues that the current reconfiguration of care is driven not only by processes of commodification and marketization but also by complex mec…
The business of care: Private placement agencies and female migrant workers in London
This article presents the results of a qualitative research project on private domestic and care placement agencies in London. Although there is a paucity of empirical studies on these private actors, they have become increasingly important in the domestic and care sector in the UK. In a context of growing commodification and marketization, the article shows how domestic and care services constitute an extremely profitable ‘industry’ in which lar…
Low-skill no more! essential workers, social reproduction and the legitimacy-crisis of the division of labour
Workers in the realm of social reproduction – e.g. nurses, carers, cleaners, food preparation workers etc. – are considered low-skill and are poorly remunerated. During the Covid-19 crisis they have been recast as ‘essential’, leading to unprecedented praise and attention in public discourse. Nonetheless, public praise for these ‘essential’ workers so far has not translated into a commitment for higher wages and improved working conditions. In th…
Weber: Religion, nation and empire
Colonialism figures in the work of Max Weber in multiple forms. While in his professorial address he supported internal colonialism as the antidote against the threat represented by the immigration of foreigners, in the writings on world religions colonialism appears as displacement, amnesia and Freudian slip. Colonial subjects in particular are portrayed as personalities unable to develop the mentality that would help them to free themselves fro…
The Phantasm of Gender - Judith Butler, Who’s afraid of gender? (London, Penguin, 2024, 307 p)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Corporatisation and financialisation of social reproduction: Care homes and childcare in the United Kingdom
The ownership and financial strategies of companies providing care for children or older people have become an increasingly salient concern, in both research and policy, because of their implications for the quality and availability of care services, as well as working conditions. However, analysis has tended to be sector specific. This article provides the first comparison of ownership, business models and workforces across childcare and adult s…
Towards a critique of care fetishism: Social reproduction feminism and the ethics of care
Recently, there has been a notable rise in scholarly publications, research projects and public discussions engaging with care ethics and social reproduction feminism. However, despite their shared focus on caring activities, these two feminist traditions diverge significantly in their theoretical foundations and political implications. The primary distinction lies in their conceptualization of care itself: whereas care ethics emphasizes the affe…
Racial borderscapes and the ungrounding of migrant life: Thinking with space, gender and labour
This article intervenes in debates on contemporary border politics by advancing the analytic of racial borderscapes and foregrounding the political economy that structures contemporary bordering regimes. Building on scholarship that understands borders as core to the production of unequal socio-spatial relations, we argue that borderscapes produce racialised differentiation that regulates and diminishes life chances through the combined operation…
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