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Pluralising Law and Social Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Practices
The workshop draws on collaborations and co-conspirations part of our Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches Network (PSRN) to examine how the law enables the global maldistribution of social reproduction labour, and whether a prefigurative engagement with the law from the margins can help us to valorise social reproduction as a site of resistance.
Day 1 (9 September 2026, hybrid): IAS seminar room, University of Warwick
The workshop is organised around the topics of concepts, methods, and practices to develop an interdisciplinary approach to law and social reproduction.
Day 2 (10 September 2026, in-person): Modern Records Centre (MRC), University of Warwick
This session is organised in collaboration with the MRC to explore archival documents on law and social reproduction.
Please sign up here. Participants will be sent a questionnaire to be completed prior to the workshop and the answers will be used to frame the discussions and a collective piece. We will also send the Teams link to attend online.
Roundtable: Pluralizing Social Reproduction Approaches
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Sponsor: Gendering International Relations Working Group
Chair: Shirin Rai
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Join us to celebrate the launch of Shirin M. Rai’s Depletion. The book examines the human costs of caring, how these are reproduced across the boundaries of class, race, gender, and generation and how might they be reversed.
Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches: A Workshop
Room 4426, Main Building, 4th Floor
Over 2020-2022 some of us got together to discuss how the concept of social reproduction, including in its iteration as social reproduction theory (SRT), as an exploration of life-making in the Global North, may affect global conversations on care, labour, exploitation and struggles. Over two years we discussed the important issues that a lens framed on social reproduction raises for the global south and for feminist political agendas. We aim to continue this important work here, and promote an agenda aimed at pluralizing social reproduction approaches (SRA).