ABSTRACT

This paper considers the value of agrarian political economic scholarship for urban theory-building. Drawing on Chayanov’s theory of peasant economy developed in early twentieth century Russia and feminist scholarship emphasizing how women’s is work rendered invisible by standard economic measures, it demonstrates how households’ reliance on gendered self-exploitation via pooled family labor in contemporary urban Mexico drives forms of popular urbanism. An ethnographic study of street markets, the paper argues that – like rural peasant households managing to survive a seemingly totalizing transition to capitalist agriculture – street vendors’ non-capitalist labor strategies at the household level paradoxically allow for their survival amidst pressures from highly capitalized retail embodied in the multinational chains expanding across Latin America. Given that economies based on gendered labor of the self-exploiting family are dominant rather than peripheral in the global South, it reveals a need to recenter uneven geographies of social reproduction in urban political economy.

摘要

本文探讨了农业政治经济学学术对于城市理论建设的价值。借鉴二十世纪初俄罗斯发展起来的恰亚诺夫的农民经济理论和强调女性工作如何通过标准经济措施而被忽视的女权主义学术成果，它展示了当代墨西哥城市中家庭如何通过集中家庭劳动力对性别自我剥削的依赖，推动了各种形式的性别自我剥削。流行的都市主义。对街头市场的人种学研究，该论文认为，就像农村农户设法在看似全面向资本主义农业的过渡中生存下来一样，街头小贩在家庭层面的非资本主义劳动策略，自相矛盾地允许他们在来自跨国连锁店所体现的高资本化零售业的压力下生存下来。拉美。鉴于基于自我剥削家庭性别劳动的经济在南半球国家中占据主导地位，而不是边缘，这表明需要重新调整城市政治经济中社会再生产的不平衡地理分布。