Global Perspectives on Metrics, Governance, and Social Practices

Working Papers Seminar Series

Environment, Labor, Transhuman 

31 January 2025

Join us on Friday, February 14, from 12 pm to 2 pm ET for a discussion on care, race and ecology.

Working Papers Seminar Series 2024-2025

4 August 2024

The working papers seminar will start its third year in September 2024 with generous support from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative research grant.

Working Papers Blog

Destruction as Care

31 January 2025

Destruction as care means imagining more-than-human flourishing. The experience of Galician common lands challenges the idea that care only sustains life. Acts of destruction, like cutting trees, can also be care, questioning whose life is being reproduced and why. More-than-human relationalities in land management expand ideas of ecological reciprocity.

Extraction, Nourishment, and the Labor of Healing in Bolivia

20 January 2025

Indigenous traditional healers in Bolivia expressed optimism when Evo Morales expanded opportunities for them to work in the formal health care system. Yet some also grew frustrated when they received no salary and minimal material support in public institutional settings.

Discretion or Standardization? How States Assess Eligibility for Home Care 

Millions of elderly people and people with disabilities depend on Medicaid-funded home care services. But there is a lot of variation in how states evaluate home care eligibility. Standardized assessments leave room for discretion and interpretation of what constitutes disability – which can be both a tool for personalized care and an obstacle for developing quality benchmarks.

The Care Ethics Research Consortium

3 February 2025

Maurice Hamington reports on the recent CERC conference in Utrecht.

The Immigrants’ Goodbye

20 January 2025

New restrictions on legal immigration, combined with rapid deportation of the undocumented, will likely worsen already painful shortfalls of paid health care, elder care, and child care services in the U.S.

Death by Austerity

6 January 2025

Some kinds of efficiency are about making money. Other kinds are about saving lives and developing human capabilities.

Déjà-vu all over again?:  IWY Turns 50

6 January 2025

On the fiftieth anniversary of International Women’s Year, it’s worth taking stock of what we’ve gained and what we haven’t.

Sex, Work, and Care

3 December 2024

Sex workers forge critical connections to end gender violence, combat stigma and criminality, and build a more caring world.

The Rise of Anti-Care

18 November 2024

Some post-U.S. election advice: keep the faith and fight the backlash.

The Nappy Revolution

18 November 2024

Caring for Life: a new book that re-values nappy-free infant hygiene care practices

In Person Events

Women at Work

24 January 2025

An undergraduate course taught by Tania Rispoli in the Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute on the gender, race, and class implications of work. February 19, March 19, March 26, and April 16 in the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106 and online from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm.

The Political Economy of Care

6 September 2024

A graduate class taught by Jocelyn Olcott in the Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute on sustaining households, communities, and environments. Every Wednesday from 4:40 to 7:10 pm at the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.

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