Infrastructures of social reproduction: Schools, everyday urban life, and the built environment of education
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Item Type
Journal Article
Author
Keavy McFadden
URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231178827
Pages
20438206231178827
Publication
Dialogues in Human Geography
ISSN
2043-8206
Date
2023-05-30
Extra
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI
10.1177/20438206231178827
Accessed
2024-08-19 04:02:12
Library Catalog
SAGE Journals
Language
en
Abstract
Drawing together the literature on social reproduction and infrastructure, this paper demonstrates how understanding education as an infrastructure of social reproduction enables scholars to evaluate the ways in which changing education landscapes affect other aspects of urban life for residents. Building from the empirical context of Chicago's schools, this paper demonstrates how racism characterizes the dispossession of social reproductive infrastructures and attendant transformations of urban life. In doing so, this article argues that theorizing education as an infrastructure of social reproduction allows for a more robust theorization of the relationship between social reproduction and the built environment as well as the everyday temporality of social reproduction. Theorizing education landscapes in this way facilitates sharper thinking around a contradiction at the heart of social reproduction theory: that social reproductive sites are increasingly key spaces of capital accumulation while simultaneously serving as important terrains to fight that process. This framework allows for close attention to how the frictions between the social reproductive needs of capital and the social reproductive needs of communities play out within urban infrastructures in Chicago.
Short Title
Infrastructures of social reproduction