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Creating Common Care (Bilingual Seminar)
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project invites you to a seminar on Creating Common Care, examining how community care structures intersect with labor, the state, and economic precarity in Latin America. The event will take place online on Friday, April 4, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
Working Papers Seminar Series 2024-2025
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.
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Governance of “Care” as an Urban Resource?
Care-full Municipalism offers a theoretical and policy vision for rethinking urban governance in ways that prioritize life-making over profit-making, sustainability over extraction, and collective responsibility over individual burdens.
Dispossession, World Ecology, and Care: A View from Kenya
Capitalism remakes relations among humans and between humans and more-than-human natures. This process has fostered a minimalist, productivist notion of care, commodifying or eroding relations that resist accumulation. Focusing on colonial Kenya, I explore how ecological crises and commodification disrupted interspecies patterns of care central to pastoral Maasai lifeways.
Surviving the Future: Practices of Care in A’a Teyze’s Garden
The labors of Afro-Turks with the natural world that lie outside of purely productivist grammars of relating within which they are entangled “spatialize acts of survival” that are disruptive enough as to wage war against domination.
The Courage and the Scourge of Caring: Coal Miners’ Earthquake Search and Rescue Work
The Soma coal miners translated their underground skills into life-saving care after the February 6, 2023, earthquakes, acting swiftly where the state failed. Using traditional mining techniques, they reinforced the rubble, creating moments of survival through expertise, solidarity, and sheer physical courage. Their intervention exposes how care under capitalism remains reactive—yet, when organized, it holds the potential to resist collapse and build a different future.
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Raising the Bar: Public Employment and Paid Family Leave in North Carolina
Advocates of paid family and medical leave try a novel approach. Research into efforts to move paid leave forward at the municipality level reveals surprising results.
What Labour Justice? Care Work as a Duty & Social Welfare
The concept of the worker-citizen, embedded in the Indian Constitution, raises questions about the implications for care workers.
The Immigrants’ Goodbye
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
Some kinds of efficiency are about making money. Other kinds are about saving lives and developing human capabilities.
The Care Ethics Research Consortium
Maurice Hamington reports on the recent CERC conference in Utrecht.
Déjà-vu all over again?: IWY Turns 50
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
Sex workers forge critical connections to end gender violence, combat stigma and criminality, and build a more caring world.
In Person Events
Community, Labor, and Care: Amy Chin on the Garment Industry Day Care Center
The Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute invites you to a talk by Amy Chin on the past and present of the Garment Industry Day Care Center. The event will take place on Tuesday, April 16, from 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM ET, at the Revaluing Care Lab in Durham and online.
Care as Transformation: Alisson Rowland on Care and Sex Work
The Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute invites you to a talk by Allison Rowland on how sex workers redefine care as a process of transformation. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 26, from 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM ET, at the Revaluing Care Lab in Durham and online.
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