Institutional Processes and Practices of Social Production and Reproduction

Institutional Processes and Practices of Social Production and Reproduction

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institutional processes and practices of social production and reproduction Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology of the University of Padua. This line of research focuses on the heterogeneous set of practices, spaces and places where the activities involved in human, social and environmental production and reproduction take shape. In empirical terms, these social processes are investigated in a variety of settings, including labour and welfare systems, consumption, the structures of family life, and imprisonment, to cite only a few examples. In addition, they are scrutinized at the moment they take shape in space, given that they are processes that involve the territory and the environment, or in other words, the milieu where the material and, more generally, ecological underpinnings of social reproduction are created and transformed. These are areas where actors of different kinds interact—individual, interindividual and collective and public or private, with aims that may be market driven or otherwise—and which, as is the case in other fields of research, call for an analysis of complex dynamics that are neither mechanical nor linear.

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This line of research focuses on the heterogeneous set of practices, spaces and places where the activities involved in human, social and environmental production and reproduction take shape. In empirical terms, these social processes are investigated in a variety of settings, including labour and welfare systems, consumption, the structures of family life, and imprisonment, to cite only a few examples. In addition, they are scrutinized at the moment they take shape in space, given that they are processes that involve the territory and the environment, or in other words, the milieu where the material and, more generally, ecological underpinnings of social reproduction are created and transformed. These are areas where actors of different kinds interact—individual, interindividual and collective and public or private, with aims that may be market driven or otherwise—and which, as is the case in other fields of research, call for an analysis of complex dynamics that are neither mechanical nor linear.

Essential bibliography:

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  2. Alberti, G., & Però, D. (2018). Migrating Industrial Relations: Migrant Workers’ Initiative Within and Outside Trade Unions. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 56(4), 693-715. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12308
  3. Andrijasevic, R., & Sacchetto, D. (2016). ‘Disappearing workers’: Foxconn in Europe and the changing role of temporary work agencies. Work, Employment and Society, 31(1), 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017015622918
  4. Bassoli M., Gasparre A. (2019), “Governance Beyond the Rhetoric: Organizational Action, Change, and Illusion in the Italian Local Welfare System” Administration & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399719875457
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  8. Marchetti S., Gender, migration and globalisation: an overview of the debates. Handbook of Migration and Globalisation, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 444-457 (ISBN 978-1-78536-750-2) Link: https://iris.unive.it/retrieve/handle/10278/3700242/130640/Chapter%2026%20-%20Marchetti.pdf
  9. Però, D. (2019). Indie Unions, Organizing and Labour Renewal: Learning from Precarious Migrant Workers. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017019885075
  10. Pompeo, F. (2018). Elementi di antropologia critica. Meti: Torino.
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  12. Vianello F. A. 2019, “A slow ride towards permanent residency: legal transitions and the working trajectories of Ukrainian migrants in Italy and Spain” (con Finotelli C. e Brey E.), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1590187.