Abstract
The global production networks (GPNs) literature, with the instructive concept of strategic coupling, has attended to commercial production, often bracketing out social reproduction. This leaves a conceptual and analytical gap around uneven outcomes emerging in strategic coupling processes. The paper therefore turns to global reproduction networks (GrPNs) and engages with the concepts of power and ambivalence, and with convention theory to develop the ambivalence framework. The framework builds on the co-constitution of production and social reproduction in which imperatives, such as price and efficiency, well-being, nurturing, and altruism, co-exist. It turns the conceptual-analytical focus to decision-making on training, where these imperatives are ranked and generate outcomes for training and beyond. The explanatory potential of the framework is sketched with a vignette of organic rice farming in Viamão, Brazil.
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