Ambiguity, Household and the Global Intimate in the Work of Henri Lefebvre
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Abstract
Households are central to Henri Lefebvre’s 1940s-1980s critiques of everyday life. They are the first spaces of everyday modernity that he analyses and include an extended sociology of women’s contradictory roles in consumption and nurture. Households perpetuate archaic, patriarchal forms and are incompletely colonized by media and consumerism. On this basis, Lefebvre champions peasant households as repositories of alternative potential which could form the basis for a different socioeconomic order than capitalism. Feminist analysis of ‘the global intimate’ has seized on this promise but develop beyond Lefebvre’s heterosexist and romanticized view of post-World War II women as ambiguous, oppressed and deluded. This paper mines Lefebvre’s key texts for his treatment of heterosexual cis-women and men, violence, intimacy, patriarchy, feminism and gender. These dimensions of the household give a more precise understanding of Lefebvre’s romanticization of the patriarchal peasant household and community. He is a transitional figure from the Marxist tradition who prefigures feminist analyses of the global intimate. However, households hold promise as a ‘margin-within:’ an enclaved, nested, alternate spatialisation within the dominant order of social space. The everyday household emerges as a crucible and social form of differences and contradictions that could be extended into a ‘differential space’ that supports maximal diversity and opportunity with minimal organisation or regression to more oppressive intergenerational, kin and gender relations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".