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This article compares the 2013 Gezi Park uprising in Turkey and the Yellow Vests movement in France in 2018–2019 as responses to the crisis of social reproduction. Both movements were largely attended and organised by women. Drawing on feminist political economy approaches, the authors argue that these mobilisations were triggered by the deep-seated and intensifying social reproductive contradictions at the heart of authoritarian neoliberalism. Although distinct, the authoritarian neoliberal regimes in Turkey and France both strived to remove economic decisions from democratic control. Their policies have similarly resulted in the severe degradation of the indispensable background conditions for capitalist accumulation – the unpaid or underpaid forms of labour that ensure the daily subsistence and intergenerational reproduction of the working classes and the natural environment. In Turkey, religiously conservative control over women's bodies and a discourse against gender equality were intertwined with the intensified exploitation of their social reproductive labour, against the background of the rampant commodification of the social and natural commons. In France, the crisis was triggered by abusive executive power decisions, in the context of increasing difficulties in meeting material conditions for daily subsistence and intergenerational concerns about the ecological future. The authors argue that these movements, and their repression, highlight the centrality of social reproduction as an irreducible axis of crisis in neoliberal capitalist societies.

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