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Seminars, talks, interviews and debates on social reproduction.

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2025–26Archive span

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October 2026

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29 September 2026

Rhaysa Ruas

Life-Making under State Terrorism: Racialization, Value, and the Praxis of Social Reproduction Theory in Brazil

A conversation on life-making, racialisation, value and the political possibilities of social reproduction theory in the Brazilian context.

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Kirstin Munro · 00:48

What is SRT a theory of?

A concise challenge about the object and explanatory scope of social reproduction theory.

TheoryMethod

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Kirstin Munro · 01:01

Ten points for developing SRT

On conceptual clarity, gender and the methodological development of SRT as a field.

TheoryGender

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Pedro M. Rey-Araújo · 01:17

Life-making under capitalism

Why life-making and capital reproduction have to be understood as moments of the same social process.

Life-makingCapitalism

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Pedro M. Rey-Araújo · 01:21

Value is not essentiality

A value-theoretic argument against treating value as a measure of social importance or political priority.

ValuePolitical Economy

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Premilla Nadasen · 01:19

Profit extraction from care

How the care economy can become a site of profit-making rather than simply a cost borne by capital.

CareProfit

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Premilla Nadasen · 01:19

The neoliberalisation of care

On care as a growth industry and the links between care, precarity, debt and commodification.

CareNeoliberalism

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Rebecca Carson · 01:26

A method for social reproduction theory

Connecting capital's abstract forms to the conditions of life and nature in order to politicise social reproduction.

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Rebecca Carson · 01:11

Politicising social reproduction

An excerpt on the political stakes of social reproduction, class composition and demographic change.

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Sirisha Naidu · 02:00

The crisis of social reproduction

On everyday reproductive crisis, capitalism and the pressures of social reproduction in the Global South.

CrisisGlobal South

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Sirisha Naidu · 02:00

Circuits of social reproduction

Tracing labour, consumption and household provisioning through the circuits that sustain everyday life.

LabourHouseholds

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Alessandra Mezzadri · 02:00

Colony, land and reproduction

Expanding social reproduction analysis beyond the home by centring colony, land and the Global South.

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Alessandra Mezzadri · 02:00

Democratic control of reproduction

On reclaiming the means and spaces of social reproduction through democratic control, welfare and collective struggle.

PoliticsCare

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15 January 2025

Kirstin Munro

What is Social Reproduction Theory a Theory Of? Questions and Paths Forward

Foundational questions about the object, scope and explanatory ambitions of social reproduction theory.

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Kirstin Munro — What is SRT a theory of?

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19 February 2025

Pedro M. Rey-Araújo

SRT Lab Conversation

A seminar engaging social reproduction theory through questions of political economy, labour and capitalist social relations.

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Pedro M. Rey-Araújo — Life-making under capitalism

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March 2025

Premilla Nadasen

SRT Lab Conversation

A conversation connecting care, domestic labour, race and the histories of organising around reproductive work.

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Premilla Nadasen — Profit extraction from care

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Premilla Nadasen — The neoliberalisation of care

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17 September 2025

Rebecca Carson

SRT Lab Conversation

A seminar on social reproduction, capitalist relations and the theoretical problems raised by the reproduction of labour-power.

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Rebecca Carson — A method for social reproduction theory

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Rebecca Carson — Politicising social reproduction

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16 April 2025

Sirisha Naidu

SRT Lab Conversation

A conversation engaging feminist political economy, labour and social reproduction.

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Sirisha Naidu — The crisis of social reproduction

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Sirisha Naidu — Circuits of social reproduction

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September 2025

Sara R. Farris

Towards a Critique of Care Fetishism

A critical intervention into contemporary debates on care, its political economy and the limits of treating care as an abstract social good.

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15 October 2025

Alessandra Mezzadri

Decolonizing Social Reproduction and Global Capitalist Narratives

A decolonial feminist political economy of labour, value and social reproduction across global capitalist relations.

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Alessandra Mezzadri — Colony, land and reproduction

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Alessandra Mezzadri — Democratic control of reproduction

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