The ubiquitous trade-off between survival and costly reproduction is one of the most fundamental constraints governing life-history evolution. In numerous animals, gonadotropic hormones antagonistically suppressing immunocompetence cause this trade-off. The queens of many social insects defy the reproduction-survival trade-off, achieving both an extraordinarily long life and high reproductive o...

The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed the relevance of social reproduction as a key analytical lens to interrogate contemporary capitalist processes. Building on insights from distinct theoretical traditions, in this introductory contribution special issue Feminist Global Political Economies Work we propose prism examine labour and work South feminist standpoint. We develop reproduction-centred m...

This article investigates how the means by which actors compete for position in management of international society stratifies order. Advancing scholarship on hierarchies, it applies a theory social closure to examine two status groups, The Family Civilised Nations and G20, arguing that stratification is reproduced dynamic interplay top-down collectivist exclusion part superiorly positioned bot...