14 results on '"Bakker, Isabella"'
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2. Rethinking power, production, and social reproduction: Toward variegated social reproduction.
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Bakker, Isabella and Gill, Stephen
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SOCIAL reproduction , *SAVINGS , *CAPITALISM , *SOCIAL constructionism - Abstract
This special issue introduces new work, new perspectives, and engages in a dialogue to revisit, extend and go beyond the original central hypothesis of Power, Production and Social Reproduction (2003). That volume and its primary hypothesis focused upon the unfolding contradiction between the global accumulation of capital and the provision of stable and progressive conditions of social reproduction. It hypothesized a growing contradiction between the intensified power of capital and many life-making/sustaining processes, including the condition of bodies and the biosphere. Our original hypothesis conceptualized capital accumulation and social reproduction as interlinked although within different and contradictory moments in the same system or totality. We add to this here the concept of variegated social reproduction which refers to the historical and ontological variability of social reproduction - and its specific differentiations and varieties in contemporary globalized capitalism - stemming from concrete social, cultural, ecological and material practices and structures. Indeed, as the articles in the special issue reflect, the neoliberalization and commodification of social reproduction remains incomplete and not all-encompassing or determinant. As such, the introduction and the special issue also suggest new research agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. In the Womb of Market Civilization: Surrogacy, Ethics and the Governance of the Body.
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Bakker, Isabella
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ECONOMICS , *NEOLIBERALISM , *SELF-actualization (Psychology) , *BIOETHICS , *ETHICS - Abstract
In his original article on market civilization, Gill argues that a key aspect of the process of neoliberal governance is its emphasis on self-actualization through the process of consumption. Discourses of neoliberalism suggest that the self is actualized ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
4. Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy.
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Bakker, Isabella
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FEMINISTS , *ONTOLOGY , *POLITICAL science , *ECONOMICS - Abstract
An essay is presented relating to social reproduction and the constitution of a gendered political economy. It highlights and compares several recent contributions in feminist political economy with particular emphasis on the renaissance of the concept of social reproduction. According to the author, a historical feminist political economy approach is better able to make sense of the changing ontology of the global political economy rather than positivist and empiricist perspectives.
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- 2007
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5. Neo-Liberal Governance and the Reprivatization of Social Reproduction.
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Bakker, Isabella
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HUMAN rights , *NEOLIBERALISM , *CAPITALISM , *CITIZENSHIP - Abstract
This paper argues that human security is intimately tied to social reproduction and the protection and enhancement of the capabilities that allow men and women to create and shape their own well-being over space and time. However, neo-liberal governance frameworks prioritize and privilege the security and rights of large capital over basic human security needs of the mass of humanity. This contradicts democratic determination of needs and social priorities. Indeed, notions of citizenship are being reconstituted along market-oriented lines, with a number of impacts on gender orders. The paper links these issues to two aspects of social reproduction the reproduction of the labor force and provisioning and caring needs in the context of Canada. Canada is used as an example not only because of its multi-level system of governance and its position in the global hierarchy of capitalist states, but also because Canada has consistently ranked at the top of the UN’s Human Development Index. If such transformations threaten human security in Canada, then logically, they are likely to be uncovered in other societies who have adopted neoliberal governance structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
6. Book Review: World Tax Reform: A Progress Report.
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Bakker, Isabella
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- 1990
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7. Book Reviews.
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Bakker, Isabella, Newman, Sarah, Bezanson, Kate, Kimmel, Jean, Nelson, Julie A., and Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena
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NONFICTION - Abstract
Reviews several books on feminist economics. "Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics As If People Mattered," by Lourdes Beneria; "Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945-1997," by Ann Porter; "The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value," by John B. Davis.
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- 2005
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8. Ontology, Epistemology and Global Political Economy: Work, Labour and Social Reproduction.
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Bakker, Isabella and Gill, Stephen
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ECONOMICS , *ONTOLOGY , *THEORY of knowledge , *SOCIAL reproduction , *SOCIAL structure , *CAPITALISM , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation , *INDUSTRIAL relations - Abstract
In Power, Production and Social Reproduction, we began to explore a socialontology that would enable us to re-think basic categories and concepts of(global) political economy. In this paper we will try to take things a littlefurther by engaging in the debates between positivist, conventionalist (e.g.humanist and hermeneutic) and critical realist perspectives on ontology andepistemology. The aim is to be able to better make sense of ontologyunderstood broadly as an historical and human process involving human agency inthe creation of the institutions and structures of social life in a givenperiod, or more broadly, in shaping social reproduction. This approach willtherefore build on our earlier sketch of an approach to explanation in globalpolitical economy that incorporates the dialectic of structure and agency aswell as power/knowledge as a means to identify the moments not only of powerand production but also of social reproduction in the emerging world order. One way to do this is to further explore the distinction between work - whichin the sphere of production broadly mediates relations between social andnatural orders - and labour. The latter is a particular aspect of work whichin capitalism is appropriated and controlled in the capital-labour relation. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
9. Feminist Intellectuals, Women?s Movements and Historical Global Orders.
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Bakker, Isabella
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FEMINISM , *INTELLECT , *SOCIAL movements , *ONTOLOGY , *THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
This paper will examine the nature of feminist intellectuals in the first, second and third phases of the women?s movement. It will raise and seek to address the following questions. What constitutes a feminist intellectual from an ontological, epistemological and political perspective? Are there unique reflections on theory and practice? How do traditional versus organic intellectuals relate to emancipatory feminist movements? How has each phase of these movements from the 1800s to the present related to questions of global order and politics? How have feminist intellectuals engaged with malestream thought in each of these phases and what is their contribution to thinking about the present and future moments of global order? ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
10. Macroeconomic Policy Rules and Social Reproduction.
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Bakker, Isabella
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MACROECONOMICS , *INTERNATIONAL law , *MASS mobilization , *PUBLIC finance , *FISCAL policy , *POLITICAL science - Abstract
In most nations, a series of laws and rules, institutional practices and a framework of market-based expectations, connected to the mobilization of a large amount of financial resources, govern fiscal policy. These laws have been enacted with specific goals and constituencies in mind. Despite their commitments to the Millennium Development Goals, a continuing aspect of the first importance with respect to economic governance is the way that neo-liberal institutional and legal reforms have very restrictive policy rules. The effect of these rules is that many countries have reduced their ?fiscal manoeuvrability? and ultimately, make it difficult for their policies to comply with social reproduction needs ? also undercutting the possibility of them meeting the M DG targets. These include balanced budget rules adopted world-wide. Balanced budget laws and indeed, constitutional amendments, introduce a specific set of numerical targets into the budget process, limiting for instance, the standard Keynesian anti-cyclical policy prescription of tax cuts, expenditure increases and deficits in recessions with tax increases and expenditure cuts and surplus during expansionary periods. With this in mind, my research will undertake a comparative analysis of a donor and recipient community- the EU and South ? examining existing budgetary frameworks and how these can be made more consistent with the goals of social reproduction for the majority. I will consider fiscal rules (e.g., investment rules) and constitutional amendments and relate these to both the ability to meet MDG commitments and the ultimate provisioning of health, social infrastructure and welfare. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
11. Books.
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Bakker, Isabella
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- HUNTING the Hippo (Book)
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Reviews the book `Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths,' by Linda McQuaig.
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- 1995
12. Reviews.
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Bakker, Isabella
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- SOCIAL Change, Social Welfare & Social Science (Book)
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Reviews the books `Social Change, Social Welfare and Social Science,' by Peter Taylor-Gooby and `Beyond the Welfare State,' by Christopher Pierson.
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- 1992
13. Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis.
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Benatar, Solomon R., Gill, Stephen, and Bakker, Isabella
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ECONOMIC competition , *INTERNATIONAL relations & ethics , *PUBLIC health & economics , *PUBLIC sector & economics , *CHRONIC diseases , *DEBT , *ECONOMICS , *EPIDEMICS , *GOAL (Psychology) , *HEALTH status indicators , *HUMAN rights , *INCOME , *POVERTY , *PROFIT , *RESOURCE allocation , *SOCIAL justice , *TAXATION , *WORLD health , *HEALTH care industry , *GOVERNMENT policy , *GOVERNMENT regulation , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
Although the resources and knowledge for achieving improved global health exist, a new, critical paradigm on health as an aspect of human development, human security, and human rights is needed. Such a shift is required to sufficiently modify and credibly reduce the present dominance of perverse market forces on global health. New scientific discoveries can make wide-ranging contributions to improved health; however, improved global health depends on achieving greater social justice, economic redistribution, and enhanced democratization of production, caring social institutions for essential health care, education, and other public goods. As with the quest for an HIV vaccine, the challenge of improved global health requires an ambitious multidisciplinary research program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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14. Making progress in global health: the need for new paradigms.
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BENATAR, SOLOMON R., GILL, STEPHEN, and BAKKER, ISABELLA
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MEDICAL care of poor people , *MEDICAL economics , *HEALTH services accessibility , *HUMAN rights ,DEVELOPING countries ,DEVELOPED countries - Abstract
This article takes the state of health in the world today as the starting point for a backward look at the trajectory that has led to our current position and speculation about prospects for improved global health in the future. Our model of social development and its dominant value system, which has promoted scientific progress but has also brought about great social, economic and health instability, is interrogated. This leads to questions such as what it means to be healthy and what the practice of medicine is about. Three potential scenarios for global health in the future are outlined. It is suggested that deep introspection about our current value system is required to achieve a paradigm shift that could reverse current trends and lead both to improvements in health globally and to less human insecurity. The authors conclude that while we have the material resources to achieve ambitious goals we may lack the moral and political will to do so. An expanded discourse on ethics and human rights—as well as on the limits of what is politically possible— may provide the impetus to drive change towards an improved global economic system and better health globally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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