Social Reproduction Strategies Research Articles

Familia, estrategias de reproducción social y comercio de exportación en Tucumán, Argentina, 1780-1820. Una aproximación a partir de la familia Posse

With the advent of the 21st century American historians discussed again about the historiographical positions that discussed the transition from the late colonial period to the process of revolution and independence at beginning of the 19th century, in response to the impact of these events in the various regions comprising the Hispano-American colonial space. These discussions resulted in the need to explore how the city of San Miguel de Tucuman went through this process, from the study of a family representative of the local elite, the Posse, between 1780 and 1820. For this reason, will centre attention on the family organization, social reproduction strategies and activities carried out by Manuel Posse, peninsular merchant,Tucuman.

Agricultura familiar e as relações sociais de trabalho:um estudo sobre a pluriatividade na Vila Freire – Cerrito – RS

This paper aims at analyzing the relations between the emergence of pluriactivity and the transformations in the socio-productive organization of family agriculture. First, I will present a brief background on Brazilian family agriculture, the changes occurred in social work relations in the field, and then I will more specifically address the topic of pluriactivity in a case study in Vila Freire, in the city of Cerrito/RS. It is worth emphasizing that the diversity of forms used to allocate labor converges to the expansion of possibilities and social reproduction strategies and retention of families in rural areas.

Estrategias campesinas, tensiones y redefiniciones en espacios revalorizados por el capital

En contextos de paulatino avance de las relaciones de producción capitalistas y de nuevas lógicas territoriales, diversas articulaciones de prácticas productivasreproductivasposibilitan el desarrollo de las estrategias de vida de las unidades domésticas rurales. El propósito de este artículo es reconstruir las estrategias de reproducción social puestas en acción por campesinos de los parajes rurales de La Humada y Chos Malal (del oeste de La Pampa, Argentina) entre los años 1990 y 2010. Enmarcados en el paradigma interpretativo para la reconstrucción de las estrategias en un contexto de avance de la frontera agropecuaria, se combinaron diferentes abordajes de metodología cualitativa que articulan historias de vida, con entrevistas en profundidad y análisis de fuentes documentales, cartográficas y estadísticas.

Pesca artesanal entre crise econômica e problemas socioambientais: estudo de caso nos municípios de Garopaba e Imbituba (SC)

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a diversificação das estratégias de reprodução social das famílias pescadoras artesanais no litoral Centro-Sul Catarinense. O estudo de caso revelou que os problemas ambientais e de gestão dos recursos pesqueiros impactam negativamente a produção e a renda auferida pelas famílias pescadoras artesanais, forçando o recurso à pluriatividade ou mesmo o abandono da pesca.

The political economy of the household: Neoliberal restructuring, enclosures, and daily life

ABSTRACT By centralizing the material foundations of daily life, the burgeoning ‘Everyday IPE’ literature has the capacity to make significant advances in achieving a more integrated political economy approach. The literature's theoretical framework, however, needs to be expanded to be able to adequately address the ways that households and reproductive relations are impacted by the global economy. Addressing this gap, this article attempts to carve out a heuristic space that can more clearly establish variations in the social and economic purpose of households over time and understand how these shifts have been shaped by, and shape, the social relations of capitalism. It then brings this framework to bear on the case study of Canadian neoliberal restructuring, demonstrating that through labour market and welfare restructuring, and the promotion of private and individual social reproduction strategies, the neoliberal state's aggressive reordering of people's daily lives extends too, into the household and spheres of reproduction.

Creating a niche in the education market: the rise of internationalised secondary education in the Netherlands

The past decades saw a rise in internationalised education in Europe. Based on case studies at Dutch schools, I argue that the introduction of this type of education can be understood by the increased need for schools to adapt to the social reproduction strategies of privileged social classes. School managers regard internationalised streams as a way to counter a decline of pupils or as a strategy to improve an already secure position. In both cases, they resisted protesting staff in their efforts to establish an exclusive image of their internationalised stream. I argue that school managers’ inclination to emphasise the exclusive and ‘high‐quality’ profile of their internationalised streams and their propensity to celebrate the abilities of their pupils stem from their competitive engagement with local education markets.

Autoconsumo e segurança alimentar: a agricultura familiar a partir dos saberes e práticas da alimentação

OBJETIVO: Identificar e analisar as classificações e representações da alimentação, bem como as práticas de produção e consumo de alimentos entre agricultores e agricultoras da região do Vale do Taquari (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil). MÉTODOS: Os dados e as informações foram obtidos a partir de entrevistas e observação participante, orientadas por um esquema metodológico qualitativo. Participaram da pesquisa, realizada em 2004 e 2005, 48 famílias rurais, de três diferentes localidades. Os recursos teórico-analíticos utilizados foram os da antropologia da alimentação e da abordagem da reciprocidade. RESULTADOS: Entre as famílias estudadas é significativa a produção de alimentos para autoconsumo, sendo as mulheres as principais responsáveis por sua obtenção. As práticas alimentares, embora tenham sofrido modificações, em função da modernização da agricultura e da incorporação de produtos industrializados, guardam especificidades locais e estão relacionadas a diversas expressões de sociabilidade, como a circulação de alimentos e a realização de festas comunitárias, que, impregnadas por simbolismos, atualizam um modo de vida e têm garantido segurança alimentar. CONCLUSÃO: As práticas de produção para autoconsumo das famílias estudadas estão associadas à sua segurança alimentar e, desse modo, às suas estratégias de reprodução social. A circulação de alimentos e as escolhas alimentares expressam relações de sociabilidade e de identidade nas comunidades rurais estudadas. Aspectos socioculturais e distintos níveis de relações sociais apresentam-se em transformação, podendo colocar em risco a segurança alimentar das famílias. Tais processos inspiram a realização novos estudos.

Estrategias campesinas de reproducción social. El caso de las Tierras Altas Jujeñas, Argentina

This article analyzes peasantry persistence in a context of deepening of the capitalist relations of production, as given by the diffusion of neoliberal policies in periphery countries. The case study focuses on crisis and recreation of peasant’s social reproduction strategies in the Puna and Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina. The article analyzes the new economic strategies of peasantry, focusing on its logics of accumulation and conversion of capitals. Results suggests that the productive conversion was oriented towards strengthening typical peasant activities such as farming and handicraft production —whereas the main followed mechanism against decapitalisation was the accumulation of social capital for its further conversion in other types of capitals. Nevertheless, the implementation of these strategies has been conditioned by structural and social factors that make difficult the consolidation of a commercial agriculture in peasant systems in these regions.

Familia y patrimonio en Andalucía: los Carreira (1795-1935)

This article analyzes the strategies of social reproduction of the Carreira Family in the period 1795-1935. Due to the great complexity of the diverse economic activities upon which their wealth was based -agricultural, industrial, commercial and the lending of money-, this study focuses exclusively on the strategies developed to acquire a vast territorial patrimony, the pivot around which the other productive activities revolved. The same developed within a wide geographical area in the north of the province of Malaga and the south of Córdoba and Sevilla; three areas which exemplify the diversity of Andalucía. The main source consulted for the present work is the Archive of the Carreira family.

Redes e intercambio de capitales en condiciones de pobreza: dimensión relacional y dimensión vincular

This paper refers to the study of the social networks involved in the strategies of social reproduction of poor families, in the view of theoretical discussions as well as empirical analysis. In the first place I explain the concept of network and social capital that I utilize in my investigations, emphasizing the way in which they insert themselves within a wider problematic: that of the strategies of social reproduction in poverty, within the framework of a structural analysis. In the second place, I mention the different types of networks built empirically, that allow visualizing distinct interchanges of capitals. Here I present a concrete analysis of one of them that articulates a group of families living in a poor neighborhood of Cordoba with other agents (a group of militants of Montoneros) that occupy another position in the social space. Finally, I propose a double analytical dimension to study the social networks: a relational dimension that allows to observe the material and symbolic conditions, outsiders and incorporated, that make them possible and another one, a bonding condition, that permits to attack concretely the frequency and intensity of interactions and the types of goods and services that circulate among them.

Poetry under control: Social reproduction strategies and children’s literature

This paper arose from research into a class of 11–year-olds’ relationships with poetry. The paper describes how by analysing the children’s comments about poetry it became clear that their parents were active in rigorously selecting, censoring and generally controlling the children’s reading diet, most markedly with poetry, and that patterns began to emerge of how they went about this task. In an analysis drawing on Ball and Vincent’s (2005) work it became clear that processes of social reproduction were at work.

Matrimonial Strategies: Social Reproduction and Integration

This case study attempts to show how a specific social group used marriage as a strategy for social reproduction and integration. Although it is widely accepted that marriage has always served as a strategy for those purposes, it was not clear how it operated. It was mainly analysed in terms of structural determinants; however, based on empirical evidence this article shows it is important to consider it as a conscious and purposeful social action. Despite the fact that well-resourced individuals like executive personnel may have a large margin for manoeuvre to implement their strategies, empirical evidence suggests that marriage is not an individual project even among elites. The family continues to manage social reproduction, integration and coordinate individuals' projects and strategies through marriage and education. Its direct intervention may have diminished in the new context, but it has by no means withered away.

‘Just because it's gone doesn’t mean it isn’t there anymore’: Planning for attraction residuality

New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain illustrates the concept of attraction residuality, wherein a destroyed iconic tourist site is reinvented as a residual attraction through a process of selected ex situ reconstruction and memorialisation. Various mechanical and social reproduction strategies characterise the latter component, including the construction of an off-site full-scale replica and the declaration of a commemoration day and annual awards. Applied more broadly into a specialised disaster planning framework, attraction residuality options can be expanded to include redefinition of the unaltered nucleus and in situ reconstruction of the original icon.

Transnational migrant communities and education strategies among Pakistani youngsters in Denmark

Education has become an increasingly important factor in relation to migration and the social reproduction strategies of migrants. This article examines how migration and its minority/majority relational dimension play a part in the development of education strategies of Pakistani youngsters. Transnational migration research has shown that the relation of minority groups to the receiving society is clearly affected by local migration strategies, continuing relations with the place of origin, and the actual opportunities available in the host society. The transnational perspective is also crucial to understanding how minorities conceive their host society and the ‘national’ schooling system, and how they manage within these. Following a discussion of the notions of transnational migration, transnationalism and transnational migrant communities, I examine the significance of transnational migrant communities for understanding the education strategies of Pakistani youngsters in Denmark. Pakistani minorities have a long history of experience with migration and the need to integrate a widening and varied set of socio-economic conditions across local and national boundaries. Employing education as a social mobility strategy has become a more common practice among groups in traditionally caste-dominated social relations. Furthermore, among Pakistani migrant communities, biradari relations also operate as a flexible social category that affects the opportunities groups have to convert economic capital into schooling and education capital, and future symbolic capital.

Household and Family at Moche, Peru: An Analysis of Building and Residence Patterns in a Prehispanic Urban Center

The Moche was the last complex society to develop on the Peruvian north coast during the Early Intermediate Period (200 B. C.-700 A. D.). While archaeological research on the Moche has traditionally concentrated on the impressive marks of political and religious power, we know relatively little about Moche household organization and patterns of residence. In this research, conducted at the eponymous site of Moche, I identify three types of architectural organization relating to both residential and nonresidential spaces. An analysis of building materials and architectural superposition suggests a close relationship among construction quality, household size, and occupational continuity, in the case of residential architecture. The observed differences, I argue, reflect strategies of household social reproduction among Moche's urban population that depend largely on socioeconomic status. I also contend that different forms of labor were responsible for the construction of residential compounds and other specialized areas, the function of which may not be primarily residential. This research emphasizes the great potential of studying domesticity in prehistory as well as the dynamics of urban construction and suggests methods effective for the reconstruction of household forms and change in sedentary societies.

Growth, Disintegration, and Decentralization: The Construction of Taiwan's Industrial Networks

Manufacturing based on networks of small family firms is widely regarded to have been integral to Taiwan's development success. Many studies discuss the social embeddedness, flexibility, efficiency, and competitive advantage of these networks, but there have been few systematic attempts to theorize their origins. A processual analysis of the changing spatial structure of Taiwan's industry, in its social, political, and historical contexts, reveals that Taiwan's concentrated industries of the 1950s did not disintegrate into smaller firms. Rather, there was a proliferation of new rural firms after the mid-1960s. The construction of a disintegrated, decentralized, and networked structure was driven by the contingent actions of rural household entrepreneurs, pursuing strategies of social reproduction, under circumstances resulting from, among other things, an extensive land-reform program and redistributive agricultural policies. Transactions costs and neo-Weberian authority approaches elucidate important factors, but fail to explain the creation of this new class of petty entrepreneurs, and how the conditions of their entrance shaped the networked form of organization they created. Furthermore, their actions did not result from state-led development policies as much as they were the unintended consequences of state policies, preceding by several years government efforts to support the growth of small firms and rural industry. Finally, urban-push explanations assume a passive countryside, thus ignoring the ways rural actors energetically created new structures of production out of the resources at hand.

Review of Riagáin (1992): Language Maintenance and Language Shift as Strategies of Social Reproduction: Irish in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, 1926–1986

Review of Riagáin (1992): Language Maintenance and Language Shift as Strategies of Social Reproduction: Irish in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, 1926–1986

Language maintenance and language shift as strategies of social reproduction

Abstract Strategies of language ‘assimilation and dissimilation’ (Bourdieu, 1991) are inevitably and unavoidably linked to the more general strategies of social reproduction adopted by groups and individuals (i.e. the strategies by which each generation endeavours to transmit to the following generation the advantages it holds). Thus strategies of social mobility that involve, for example, education, changes of occupation, changes of residence or migration, are all likely to have linguistic consequences. The very anticipation of such strategies may, in fact, carry implications for language behaviour in advance of the actual move itself. However, to examine the linguistic consequences of strategies of social reproduction, the strategies themselves have to be ‘situated’ (Giddens, 1984) in space and time, i.e. located with regard to the territorial organisation of the local community and the relationship of this to the wider national and international economy. The territorial organisation of communities incl...

Book Review: Language Maintenance and Language Shifts as Strategies of Social Reproduction: Irish in the Corea Dhuibhne Gaeltacht 1926–86

Book Review: Language Maintenance and Language Shifts as Strategies of Social Reproduction: Irish in the Corea Dhuibhne Gaeltacht 1926–86

¿Enterramientos tumulares en la edad del Bronce? Nuevas evidencias para el Noroeste

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