BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:845ac4eec328a471f2e4be4e60fe7a2e DTSTAMP:20260416T073735Z SUMMARY:Cindi Katz: Social Reproduction and the Topographies of Hope DESCRIPTION:Contact: henrik_gutzon.larsen@keg.lu.se\n\nAbstract: Social rep roduction encompasses the material social practices and relations that sus tain production and social life in all their variations. It is the stuff o f everyday life and the structuring forces that constitute any social form ation. Its temporality is at once daily\, generational\, and longue durée and its spatiality is similarly varied. With no single scale\, social rep roduction is bound dialectically with production everywhere. Not reducible to consumption\, ideology\, or the making of a differentiated labor force \, social reproduction embraces all of these and more in a fluid congeries of practices with three aspects—political economic\, cultural\, and env ironmental—accomplished by social actors associated with the state\, the workplace\, the household\, and civil society. Inhering in the activities that remake the conditions of capitalism are the possibilities of making them otherwise\, altering social relations and the horizons of social and political economic life. It happens all the time\, but enacting their tran sformational possibilities calls for consciously appropriating these cultu ral forms and practices\, engaging what I have come to think of as topogra phies of hope. \;Cindi Katz is Professor of Geography\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City U niversity of New York. Her research concerns social reproduction\, the pro duction of nature\, the workings of the security state in everyday environ ments\, the privatization of the public environment\, the cultural politic s of childhood\, and the intertwining of memory and history in the geograp hical imagination. She has published widely on these themes as well as on social theory and the politics of knowledge. She is the author of Growing up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives (2004) w hich won the American Association of Geographers Meridian Book Award for t he Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. She is the editor (with Janice Monk) of Full Circles: Geographies of Gender over the Life Course (1993)\ , Life’s Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (with Sallie Marston a nd Katharyne Mitchell) (2004)\, and The People\, Place\, and Space Reader (with Jen Jack Gieseking\, William Mangold\, Setha Low\, and Susan Saegert ) (2014). The 2024 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Honor and the 202 1 recipient of Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the AAG\, Katz held a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Unive rsity (2003-4)\, and the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Prof essorship in Gender Studies at Cambridge University (2011-12). She is work ing on two book projects: Childhood as Spectacle and a collection of her w ritings on social reproduction tentatively titled Vagabond Capitalism: Soc ial Reproduction in Crisis. \;\n\nMore information about the event: ht tps://www.keg.lu.se/en/calendar/cindi-katz-social-reproduction-and-topogra phies-hope DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20250424T120000 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20250424T140000 LOCATION:Room: Världen at Geocentrum I\, Sölvegatan 10 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR