The Community Work Programme: Investigating labour, autonomy, and the (neoliberal) State through a public employment programme in South Africa

我希望提出的项目将在中东和北非地区的一个选定国家使用调查和人种学方法，调查妇女的个人经历、主观理由和个人乌托邦及其对有偿、无偿和护理工作的影响。它将把调查结果与发展办法进行对话，以解决FLFP问题，并与阿拉伯和西方妇女主义就社会再生产问题进行对话。因此，我的目标是实现三个目标：第一，检验实证社会学文献为FLFP提供的基于文化和宗教约束的解释。第二，重新评估西方女权主义对解放和社会再生产的描述，并为相应的文学“去中心化”做出贡献。第三，为进一步的博士研究绘制地图，该地图应考虑到中东和北非地区的异质性，并可能纳入决定适当就业机会的历史和宏观经济因素，以及区域供给侧政策工具。

The project I wish to propose will use survey and ethnographic methods in a selected country in the MENA region to investigate the individual experiences, subjective justifications and personal utopias of women and their effect on paid, unpaid, and care work. It will engage findings in dialogue with development approaches to FLFP and Arab and Western feminisms on social reproduction. I thus aim to accomplish three goals: first, to test explanations based on cultural and religious constraints offered by empirical sociological literature for FLFP. Second, to re-evaluate Western feminist accounts of emancipation and social reproduction and contribute to 'decentering' the corresponding literature. Third, to generate a map for further doctoral research, which should account for the heterogeneity of the MENA region, and may incorporate historical and macro-economic factors which determine the availability of appropriate jobs, as well as regional supply-side policy instruments.