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Communitas and the Problem of Women.” Angelaki 18:3 (Sept. 2013)
Abstract From its earliest beginnings, political thought has grappled with the problem of those who both do and do not belong to the city, those who cannot be exactly included or excluded, that is to say, with the problem of difference. Most often this emerges first as the problem of what to do with women. Communitas is an intense engagement with central figures in the history of political thought – Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau – but also a remarkably efficient avoidance of women and difference. Even as he deals with Augustine, who cannot stop discussing begetting and desire, and Hobbes, who insists on the maternal right of nature, Esposito’s attention remains fixed on the fraternal violence rather than parental sex as the founding of community, and the result is a strangely phallic work.
LSE Review of Books, 2020
The essays in Commoning, edited by Camille Barbagallo, Nicholas Beuret and David Harvie, offer an impassioned tribute to the intellectual labours of George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici as well as the forms of thought and action that have emerged alongside them. At a time when themes of care, social reproduction, class, gender and anti-Capitalist struggles are re-emerging at the forefront of the popular imagination, the contributors to this new volume acknowledge their profound debts to Caffentzis and Federici, whose work until recently has been largely ignored by major currents in academia, as well as their shared borrowings from members of the group known as the Midnight Notes Collective.
Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, 2014
Empezando en los años 70 y siguiendo las huellas dejadas por los movimientos por los derechos de las mujeres, los varones comenzaron a cuestionarse y reflexionar sobre su experiencia sexual, y el significado de ser masculino, su manera de desconstrucción de muchos de los roles dominantes de virilidad, y en su su lugar la construcción de una demanda por libertad y de una redefinición simbólica de masculinidad. En su redefeinición simbólica encontramos el rol del hombre cariñoso, opuesto al estereótipo prediminante que le limita como el sostén de la familia en exclusiva. En este papel analizamos, en diversos niveles interpretativos, la situación real de la práctica del cariño, especialmente qué entienden por ello las sociedades españolas e italianas, con la ayuda de dos estudios de caso. Nuestra propuesta está basada en el deseo de verificar en el campo el alcance en las sociedades estuidadas (que podría ser plenamente representativa de las sociedades mediterraneas en general) de la asunción o no de la aproximción feminista, al objeto de ofrecer una propuesta inovadora basada en evidencias teóricas y empíricas. Palabras clave: género, cariño, educación, niñez, feminismo, sociedades mediterráneas.
Caring and commoning in political society. Insights from the Scugnizzo Liberato of Naples
Urban Studies, 2024
Recent research highlighted the connection between commoning processes and the creation of new infrastructures of care in the areas of Southern Europe which were most affected by austerity policies and by the connected crisis of social reproduction. The objective of this paper is to shed new light on the caring practices organized through and within urban commons by using the theoretical lenses provided by Subaltern Studies, which also explored processes of collective self-organization, development of solidarity ties and reclamation of social welfare. The main theoretical reference is provided by the work of Partha Chatterjee on "The politics of the governed" (2004). The discussion is conducted through the analysis of the caring practices organized within the Scugnizzo Liberato, one of the urban commons of the city of Naples, located in Southern Italy, investigated trough a prolonged process of co-research.
Community, Work & Family, 2000
This paper explores the persistent link between women and domestic responsibility, a link that has been heavily documented and yet much less frequently theorised. Drawing on a qualitative research project with a`critical case' study sample of couples trying to share housework and childcare in Britain in the early 1990s the paper argues that part of this puzzle linking women and domestic responsibility can be addressed by adopting wider de® nitions of domestic responsibility and of community. While domestic responsibility is often conceived as family labour that occurs within families/households, it also has inter-household, inter-institutional and community dimensions. With regard to a wider conceptualisation of the community, the paper argues that the community is more than a social institution; it is an institutional arena within which families/households, inter-household relations, community-based social networks and a wide array of community activities occur. The overall ® ndings and implications of the research presented in this paper are three-fold. First, gendered socially constructed norms and gendered community-based social networks are highlighted as important factors that help to account for the persistent link between women and domestic responsibility. Second, taking cues from research carried out in Third World and low-income Western communities, it is important to shift research agendas on domestic divisions of labour to focus not only on intra-household divisions but also inter-household and intra-community relations. Third, the need is highlighted for greater attention to the links between socially constructed norms on masculinities, men' s friendships and domestic responsibility.
Empezando en los años 70 y siguiendo las huellas dejadas por los movimientos por los derechos de las mujeres, los varones comenzaron a cuestionarse y reflexionar sobre su experiencia sexual, y el significado de ser masculino, su manera de desconstrucción de muchos de los roles dominantes de virilidad, y en su su lugar la construcción de una demanda por libertad y de una redefinición simbólica de masculinidad. En su redefeinición simbólica encontramos el rol del hombre cariñoso, opuesto al estereótipo prediminante que le limita como el sostén de la familia en exclusiva. En este papel analizamos, en diversos niveles interpretativos, la situación real de la práctica del cariño, especialmente qué entienden por ello las sociedades españolas e italianas, con la ayuda de dos estudios de caso. Nuestra propuesta está basada en el deseo de verificar en el campo el alcance en las sociedades estuidadas (que podría ser plenamente representativa de las sociedades mediterraneas en general) de la asunción o no de la aproximción feminista, al objeto de ofrecer una propuesta inovadora basada en evidencias teóricas y empíricas. Palabras clave: Género, cariño, educación, niñez, feminismo, sociedades mediterráneas.
A Universal Right to Motherhood. Derecho Universal a la Maternidad
2015
Since the 80’s in Italy there has been a debate on job insecurity and on how women live this work condition. Some studies have dealt with the feminization of work to indicate the extension to men of working conditions generally reserved to women – such as precarious, underpaid and unprotected jobs –, but also the request that men should have skills generally associated with women, i.e., capacity of relationship, care, and empathy. The feminization of work “means not only the quantitative expansion of women on the labor