The Crisis of Social Reproduction

In 2007 Professor Cock and Ms Fakier started a research project on how households respond to the crisis of social reproduction in post-apartheid South Africa. In particular, they focus on how insecure livelihoods affect the use of basic components of human sustenance; water and food. A paper A Gendered Analysis of the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Contemporary South Africa, drawing on the findings of this research, was presented at the annual Sociological Association of South Africa Congress in June 2007. In 2008 they will be tracking the commodity chain of bread and its effects on household consumption and provisioning.