Self-exploiting for survival in the urban global South
Insights of agrarian political economy for urban theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11670509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Denham (0000-0002-4575-8195, University of Oklahoma, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 671-690 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02723638.2023.2226986 |
| OpenAlex | W4383553389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 49 |
This paper considers the value of agrarian political economic scholarship for urban theory-building. Drawing on Chayanov’s theory of peasant economy developed in early twentieth century Russia and feminist scholarship emphasizing how women’s is work rendered invisible by standard economic measures, it demonstrates how households’ reliance on gendered self-exploitation via pooled family labor in contemporary urban Mexico drives forms of popular urbanism. An ethnographic study of street markets, the paper argues that – like rural peasant households managing to survive a seemingly totalizing transition to capitalist agriculture – street vendors’ non-capitalist labor strategies at the household level paradoxically allow for their survival amidst pressures from highly capitalized retail embodied in the multinational chains expanding across Latin America. Given that economies based on gendered labor of the self-exploiting family are dominant rather than peripheral in the global South, it reveals a need to recenter uneven geographies of social reproduction in urban political economy
Agrarian society · Agrarian system · Agriculture · Biology · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urban economics · Urban politics · Urban theory · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |