The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified long-standing structural inequalities,placing a sharp spotlight on the gendered precarity inherent in China's labour market.Applying a feminist political economy lens,this ess...The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified long-standing structural inequalities,placing a sharp spotlight on the gendered precarity inherent in China's labour market.Applying a feminist political economy lens,this essay argues that women’s precarious position-characterised by job insecurity,low wages,and limited social protection-is not accidental but a systemic outcome of capitalist accumulation and state-institutional frameworks.The analysis traces how the post-Mao market transition eroded earlier socialist gains for women,leading to pronounced labour market segmentation,a persistent gender wage gap,and their over-representation in informal and low-paid sectors.The pandemic-induced"she-cession"further exacerbated these conditions,intensifying the double burden of paid work and undervalued unpaid care labour.This essay concludes that without a fundamental revaluation of social reproduction and a challenge to the institutional biases that construct gendered insecurity,post-COVID policy responses will be insufficient in addressing the root causes of women's labour market precarity in China.展开更多
Knowledge of how homeless people deal with natural hazards and disasters is sparse and there is a remarkable absence of homeless people in policies and practices for disaster risk reduction(DRR). This article aims at ...Knowledge of how homeless people deal with natural hazards and disasters is sparse and there is a remarkable absence of homeless people in policies and practices for disaster risk reduction(DRR). This article aims at filling this gap by exploring the lives of homeless people in two New Zealand cities that are exposed to natural hazards. It shows that natural hazards are of marginal concern to homeless people in comparison to the everyday hazards that they experience and that make their everyday life a disaster in itself. The disaster of everyday life is created and compounded by homeless people’s precarious lifeworlds. The article, nonetheless, shows that homeless people’s vulnerability to natural hazards remains high as they lack power to control the processes that shape their everyday lives, to prepare for large-scale events, and to be represented in DRR policy. Therefore, the article ultimately argues that disaster policies require greater attention to be paid to the power structures that create persistent precarity and the ways in which this is experienced in everyday life.展开更多
文摘The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified long-standing structural inequalities,placing a sharp spotlight on the gendered precarity inherent in China's labour market.Applying a feminist political economy lens,this essay argues that women’s precarious position-characterised by job insecurity,low wages,and limited social protection-is not accidental but a systemic outcome of capitalist accumulation and state-institutional frameworks.The analysis traces how the post-Mao market transition eroded earlier socialist gains for women,leading to pronounced labour market segmentation,a persistent gender wage gap,and their over-representation in informal and low-paid sectors.The pandemic-induced"she-cession"further exacerbated these conditions,intensifying the double burden of paid work and undervalued unpaid care labour.This essay concludes that without a fundamental revaluation of social reproduction and a challenge to the institutional biases that construct gendered insecurity,post-COVID policy responses will be insufficient in addressing the root causes of women's labour market precarity in China.
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文摘Knowledge of how homeless people deal with natural hazards and disasters is sparse and there is a remarkable absence of homeless people in policies and practices for disaster risk reduction(DRR). This article aims at filling this gap by exploring the lives of homeless people in two New Zealand cities that are exposed to natural hazards. It shows that natural hazards are of marginal concern to homeless people in comparison to the everyday hazards that they experience and that make their everyday life a disaster in itself. The disaster of everyday life is created and compounded by homeless people’s precarious lifeworlds. The article, nonetheless, shows that homeless people’s vulnerability to natural hazards remains high as they lack power to control the processes that shape their everyday lives, to prepare for large-scale events, and to be represented in DRR policy. Therefore, the article ultimately argues that disaster policies require greater attention to be paid to the power structures that create persistent precarity and the ways in which this is experienced in everyday life.
