Social reproduction, situated politics, and The Will to Improve
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Tania Murray Li
Tania Murray Li
University of Toronto tania.li@utoronto.ca
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In this essay I briefly explore three themes I find important for an engaged anthropology of development. First, social reproduction: Anthropologists have a long track record of examining processes of social reproduction—how it is that particular patterns of inequality are actively sustained through practices and relations at multiple scales (Smith 1999).