Holmes 2018 → Ch5: gendered labour & ordinary practices

Holmes, “New spaces, ordinary practices” #XATD2A connects to Ch5 #KBHWDX in three places.

(1) GENDERED CONSUMPTION WORK + BIG SOCIETY #6AT9WA #4SMHWT Holmes #S4F9KM makes nearly the same move Ch5 is building: clothes swap is all-female, organised and attended by women, links to neoliberal “Big Society” critique where women replace welfare provision, but pushes past that into “longer standing debates around gender inequality, the division of labour and women’s work.” This justifies Ch5’s claim #K4KJQJ #2XLXTF that women-as-logistics-nodes (Ita, Valentīna, Līga, Agnese, Jana) is a structural pattern of diverse provisioning, not a Brīvbode peculiarity. Pairs with Horton via Schytte Sigaard #LTN8RV

(2) ORDINARY PRACTICES IN NOVEL STRUCTURES #PV6Q9Y #R88SPB Holmes uses Pahl 1984 and Clarke 2001 to argue circulating/sharing in new diverse economies are “age old” practices of getting-by. Useful for Ch5’s quiet-sustainability framing #MUYMBZ #MB6Y4T and for the post-Soviet scarcity inheritance argument #AN9UGJ freecycling looks novel but the consumption work is ordinary domestic labour reorganised.

(3) TROUBLESOME MATERIALITIES APPLIED TO VOLUNTEER BURNOUT #9BTE5A Holmes uses “troublesome materialities” mainly for access #JFH2QV — sizes, age, internet). Ch5 can extend the concept: in Brīvbode the FLOOD of donated stuff itself troubles the practice — Alise’s “no more tolerance for things” #A4ZN4M #M29FRJ moth-eaten pillows #9RX2QF regular visitors who linger #PFULHV The materiality that enables circulation also erodes the volunteers who sustain it.

Best quote for direct citation: Holmes #S4F9KM on gendering reinforcing the ordinary aspects of diverse economies and moving the analysis beyond neoliberal critique into wider gender/labour debates.

NOT a strong Ch5 fit: Holmes’s Gibson-Graham diverse economies framing and materiality-as-method — those belong to Ch4 #YW8WDH (moral economy, non-monetary value regime) rather than Ch5.