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。它将把调查结果纳入对话，以发展方式对待家庭土地和财产政策以及阿拉伯和西方关于社会再生产的女权主义。因此，我的目标是实现三个目标：第一，测试的基础上的文化和宗教的限制提供的经验社会学文献的FLFP的解释。第二，重新评价西方女性主义对解放和社会再生产的解释，并有助于“去中心化”相应的文学。第三，为进一步的博士研究绘制地图，这应该考虑到中东和北非地区的异质性，并可能纳入历史和宏观经济因素，这些因素决定了适当的就业机会以及区域供应方政策工具的可用性。

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.