Variegated Social Reproduction in Neoliberal Times: Mainstream Silences, Feminist Interventions

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1. “Depletion is often used in environmental accounting in a specific sense, as reduction of quantity in a non-renewable resource or something that cannot be replaced” (Rai et al., 2013, p. 3).

2. Another consequence identified by Flynn and Swartz (2017) is the trend towards re-familialization in the rich OECD countries driven in large part to unequal access to housing suggesting that countries are becoming more “southern European” rather than “Anglo-Nordic.”

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Isabella Bakker

Isabella Bakker’s research examines the interplay between feminist perspectives and international public policy, with a focus on how macroeconomics and fiscal policy affect questions of gender equity and social justice. Bakker’s published work includes: Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective (2011), Power, Production and Social Reproduction (2003, with Stephen Gill), Beyond States and Markets: The Challenges of Social Reproduction (2008, with Rachel Silvey) and The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy (1994). Her current research focuses on the uneven and variegated patterns of social reproduction, their implications for power and production in the global political economy and global governance.