SOCI 301: Situated and Non-Universal Citizenships

Vocabulary flashcards covering key theorists, concepts, and decolonial critiques of citizenship, welfare regimes, and care politics from SOCI 301 Lecture 7.2.

Decommodification

A concept formulated by Gøsta Esping-Andersen referring to the degree to which a welfare state protects individuals from being completely dependent on the paid labor market to survive.

Defamilialization

A concept theorized by Ruth Lister defining the extent to which state policies liberate individuals from relying solely on their families for care, wellbeing, and financial survival.

Plural Welfare Sources

Networks of social support in the Global South outside of the state, including NGOs, international aid, corporate programs, diaspora remittances, religious groups, and reciprocal kin networks.

Citizenship as a Process "From Below"

A conception of citizenship redefined as an ongoing everyday practice and process of survival, collective care, and territorial defense governed by communal structures, rather than a static legal status granted by the State.

Critical Dualism (The Double Movement)

A Global South perspective viewing the State as an ambivalent actor: simultaneously an oppressor (patriarchal, colonial, racist, or violence-enforcing) from which autonomy is sought, and a site of struggle for resources, recognition, and redistribution.

Coloniality of Gender

María Lugones' theory, extending Aníbal Quijano's work, which posits that gender is a colonial construct and hierarchical binary imposed by European colonizers as an instrument to control and subordinate colonized populations.

Care as the Foundation of Politics

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar's framework that redefines care work from an isolated private family obligation into the material and symbolic foundation of collective life.

Politics in Feminine (Política en Femenino)

A collective mode of political action defined by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar that is organized around three principles: ensuring the reproduction of life over profit, decentralizing authority, and centering community well-being over the Nation-State.

Tramas Comunitarias (Community Networks & The Commons)

Self-organized communal webs of affective ties, reciprocity, shared care work, and direct problem-solving through which communities sustain life without relying on market logic or state mandates.

The Principle of Interdependence

The view that sustaining human and non-human life relies on self-regulated bonds of mutual dependence, rejecting modern myths of individual self-sufficiency and human separation from nature.

Anthropocentric Fantasy

The modern myth and false belief that human life can exist independently from nature and other living species.

Capitalist Liberal Fantasy

The modern myth and false belief that individuals are self-sufficient units who thrive in isolation exclusively through market transactions.