Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’

Abstract

This response engages with the three generative commentaries on my original article, ‘Infrastructures of social reproduction: Schools, everyday urban life, and the built environment of education’. I address Tanyildiz's call for greater conceptual and empirical specificity in how I engage with the relationship between social reproduction and infrastructure, Rodriguez's insights on the exclusionary construction of education as a public good, and Cohen's emphasis on financialization's impact on the reproduction–resistance dialectic of education and its connection to the built environment. Taken together, the dialogue of this forum strengthens ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’ as a conceptual tool for understanding struggles over education.