Feminist global political economies of the everyday / edited by Juanita Elias and Adrienne Roberts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This collection interrogates the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered socio-economic practices at the level of the 'everyday'. It brings feminist insights to bear on the emerging International Political Economy (IPE) debates about 'the everyday', showing how gender is key to understanding how political economy is enacted and performed at the local level, by non-elites, and via various cultural practices. Drawing on 'everyday' IPE and a longer-standing body of feminist scholarship that documents and theorizes the mutually constitutive nature of, on the one hand, global markets, and on the other, households, families, relations of social reproduction and gendered socio-economic practices, this collection charts the lived realities of people and communities across a wide range of sites and spaces of the global political economy. It considers how globalizing capitalism affects and is in turn affected by Argentine sex workers, Nepalese private security contractors, Canadian call centre workers, Southeast Asian domestic workers, workers and players in British bingo halls, working class households in the UK, and much more. It demonstrates, through detailed empirical research, that a gender lens is crucial for understanding how, and on what terms, individuals and households are becoming ever more enmeshed in capitalist social relations, and how they actively and creatively resist these processes. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Globalizations.

Notes on Contributors -- 1 Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday: From Bananas to Bingo Juanita Elias Adrienne Roberts -- 2 Bingo Regulation and the Feminist Political Economy of Everyday Gambling: In Search of the Anti-Heroic Kate Bedford -- 3 Everyday Matters in Global Private Security Supply Chains: A Feminist Global Political Economy -- Perspective on Gurkhas in Private Security Amanda Chisholm Saskia Stachowitsch -- 4 Producing Migrant Domestic Work: Exploring the Everyday Political Economy of Malaysia's M̀aid Shortage' Juanita Elias Jonathon Louth -- 5 What's on the Line?: Exploring the Significance of Gendered Everyday Resistance Within the Transnational Call Center Workplace Stephanie M. Redden

6 T̀o Finish, We Must Finish': Everyday Practices of Depletion in Sri Lankan Export-Processing Zones Samanthi J. Gunawardana -- 7 Uneven Divestment of the State: Social Reproduction and Sex Work in Neo-developmentalist Argentina Kate Hardy -- 8 A Feminist Moral-Political Economy of Uneven Reform in Austerity Britain: Fostering Financial and Parental Literacy Johnna Montgomerie Daniela Tepe-Belfrage -- 9 Introduction to Discussion Forum: Èveryday' Feminist Alternatives and Activism Adrienne Roberts -- 10 Building Alternative Feminist Economic Futures: WHEELS Melissa S. Fisher -- 11 Faslane Peace Camp and the Political Economy of the Everyday Catherine Eschle -- 12 Feminist Challenges to Austerity Mary-Ann Stephenson -- 13 Plan F: Feminist Plan for a Caring and Sustainable Economy Diane Elson -- 14 Cracks in the Corporatisation of Feminism Catia Gregoratti -- 15 Austerity Policies and the Feminist Movement in Spain Eva Palomo -- Index