Transnational Practices of Care and Refusal

Transnational Practices of Care and Refusal

“Care is overwhelmingly understood in relation to female social reproduction; as such, it is both undervalued and highly gendered. Yet the intimate spaces of daily life can be understood as infrastructures, enabling livelihoods in the context of ongoing precarity. The interior offers an infrastructure for survival and care, made by refugees themselves, against a hostile world beyond. This is not to suggest that it is possible to separate practices of care from systemic inequality and existing power structures, but rather is a way to understand how people forge lives in the contexts of precarity. Somali malls and similar spaces offer vital infrastructures for “enduring precarious worlds.” Adopting a feminist ethics of care is therefore both a set of strategies for studying space and an approach for listening to how marginalized populations live with precarity and in entangled spatial histories. Listening is key to recognizing the transgressive role of narrative for those in subaltern positions, where the story contains both the idea and the spatial model. The repeated refrain acts as a form of spatial knowledge to reinforce, construct, and engender particular kinds of spaces. They offer networks of support and possibility despite remaining inherently precarious.”

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