Week 8 - Lecture

Question 1

Social reproduction (Bhattacharya)

Answer 1

“The activities and institutions that are required for making life, maintaining life, and generationally replacing life. I call it “life-making” activities. Care-work and life-making work are the essential work of society. Capitalism is about maximizing profit rather than maintaining life”

Question 2

Intimate Labour (Borris and Parrenas)

Answer 2

Intimate labour encompasses a range of activities, including bodily and household upkeep, personal and family maintenance and sexual contact or liaison. Such work occurs in homes, hospitals, hotels, streets and other public as well as private locations.

Question 3

Global care chains (Arlie Hochschild)

Answer 3

“Personal links between people across the globe based on the paid or unpaid work of caring.’ These links have manifested what is commonly known as the ‘transnationalization of care-domestic labour,’ whereby well-qualified, educated and skilled women and even those who are unskilled and less experienced, migrate to richer host nations to care for other people’s children and the elderly.

Question 4

Migrant sociality (Johnson and Werbner’s)

Answer 4

“Although shaped and constrained by the migration context, overseas female migrants, we argue nevertheless create alternative worlds of fun, piety and rights activism. Their social lives are not solely structured by marginality. Rather, in their diasporic encounters, migrants creatively engage with the places and landscapes where they live and labour, sharing conviviality with others like themselves through ritual performance, pilgrimage journeys, mobilization for rights, religious worship and new intimate relationships”.