Regulating life: Experience, meaning, and practice of power processes in crises contexts.

Coordenador / Coordinator:
Susana NAROTZKY
Universitat de Barcelona
narotzky@ub.edu

Co-coordenador / Co-coordinator
(se aplicável, não obrigatório / if applicable, not mandatory):
Antónia LIMA
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
antonia.lima@iscte-iul.pt

Debatedor / Discussant
(se aplicável, não obrigatório / if applicable, not mandatory):

Língua principal / Main language: Inglês / English (EN)

Língua complementar / Complementary language: Espanhol / Spanish (ES)

Língua de trabalho preferencial (não exclusiva) /
Prefered working language (not exclusive): Inglês / English (EN)

Detalhes do painel na língua principal /
Panel details in main language
Título / Title
Regulating life: Experience, meaning, and practice of power processes in crises contexts.

Resumo curto / Short abstract
This panel wishes to debate the impact of changing policies and regulations in the everyday lives of people. How do they affect people’s status as entitlement holders, their mobility, their access to health and education, and to basic goods such as housing, food, water, and dignity?

Resumo longo / Long abstract
This panel wishes to look into how people relate to state institutions as they go about their everyday lives. In particular, we are interested in understanding how ‘crises’ policies –be it austerity, pandemic, or recovery regulations—are co-produced by the various agents involved, at different scales simultaneously. How have different parties in government regulated and enacted access to social, labor, health, housing, education, and other social reproduction resources, including self-worth? How have people engaged with regulations through adapting, negotiating, resisting, struggling or evading them? How differently situated people experience policies and what meanings do they attach to them?
At the same time, the panel wishes to highlight social reproduction as a multiscale endeavor that involves structural, institutional, and intimate fields of force, and jointly addresses the valuation of people and the environment, and economic valorization circuits. We would like to open a debate around theoretical contributions such as feminist economics, political economy, moral economy, and political ecology to the anthropological understanding of social reproduction.