Social reproduction as survival and insurgency in Gaza

Taha, Mai ORCID: 0000-0002-7313-4048 (2025) Social reproduction as survival and insurgency in Gaza. International Labor and Working-Class History. ISSN 0147-5479

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Abstract

What is happening in Gaza now is a total displacement of any form of normality. This displacement of the normal has been effected by a population-wide project of social reproduction. Every Gazan, including children, is solicited to reproduce life, to survive. At the same time, social reproduction in Palestine has always also entailed insurgent possibilities, where this form of labour has indeed sustained and reproduced Palestinian revolutionary action. From collective kitchens to local initiatives of care for children, to using drones as musical instruments to distract children from the deafening violence of its soundscape, social reproduction is iterated as both survival and insurgency. This short intervention tries to think through the question of how to make sense of social reproduction as capitalist oppression through the unwaged housework, and as colonial violence through the mass extermination of a population, without leaving behind its potential for insurgency?

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2025 13:36
Last Modified:	09 Oct 2025 07:39
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129583

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