Revaluing Care in the Global Economy – Global Perspectives on Metrics, Governance, and Social Practices

Revaluing Care in the Global Economy brings together scholars,
activists, and practitioners to rethink how care shapes our world.
We create spaces for collaboration, research, and exchange across
disciplines, geographies, and generations.

Upcoming Events

Chasing Independence — Book Conversation with Guillermina Altomonte

10/30/2026

12:00 - 1:30 PM (EDT)

Hybrid

Join us for a conversation between NYU sociologist Guillermina Altomonte and Duke historian James Chappel about Guillermina’s new book, Chasing Independence: Growing Old in the Shadow of an American Ideal.

Water and Care — Working Papers Seminar

09/07/2026

9:00-10:30 AM ET

Online

Join us for a Working Papers Seminar on Water and Care, featuring two papers that explore the entanglement of care, ecology, and extraction in coastal and deep-sea environments.

Making Care Work — Book Conversation with Nancy Folbre

09/10/2026

12:00-1:30PM ET

Online

Please join us on September 10, 12-1:30 EDT, for a conversation with Nancy Folbre on her recent book!

Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory — Book Conversation with Heather Berg

11/05/2026

5:00-6:30 PM ET

Online

Please join us on Thursday, November 5, 5 p.m. EST (UTC+5) for a conversation with Heather Berg on her forthcoming book!

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Working Papers Blog

June 17, 2026

Researching and writing about care while trying to care for yourself… without dying in the process

The dilemma of writing about care work while being unable to care for oneself due to structural issues such as exploitation — or, in this case, the self-exploitation we are forced to endure in order to survive —i s one of the major contradictions we face as researchers engaged in revaluting this type of work.

May 30, 2026

When care becomes infrastructure: community solidarity against gender violence in urban Mexico

In the outskirts of León, Guanajuato, where state institutions fall short, women have built community care networks that function as everyday infrastructure for surviving poverty and gender-based violence. Their practices are not perfect, but they make life liveable.

May 30, 2026

Investigar y escribir sobre cuidados mientras intentas cuidarte… y no morir en el intento

De ello que la encrucijada entre escribir sobre cuidados y no poder cuidar de ti misma por cuestiones estructurales como la explotación —o en este caso la autoexplotación a la que nos vemos forzadas a atenernos para sobrevivir— sea una de las grandes contradicciones que nos atraviesan como investigadoras que se encuentran haciendo una revaloración de este tipo de trabajo.

March 29, 2026

Commuting, Care and Wellbeing

Depopulation in rural areas is driven by youth outmigration and ageing. Limited access to jobs and services increases reliance on commuting, creating time burdens that disproportionately affect women due to unequal care responsibilities, reducing their wellbeing.

March 14, 2026

Debilitating Care

Brazil’s Zika epidemic left thousands of children with congenital Zika syndrome (CZS), most born to structurally vulnerable Black and mixed-race mothers who now carry the burden of lifelong care. The relentless demands of caregiving—shaped by poverty, fragmented services, and bureaucratic barriers—gradually wear mothers down physically and mentally. Their stories show how epidemics produce wider, unevenly distributed forms of embodied harm beyond those directly diagnosed with disease.

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The Latest From

Care Talk

July 30, 2026

Rejecting the Poisoned Pie: Feminist Critiques of the Debt Economy

Debt is the technology for making care a private risk rather than a public good. Around the world, feminist researchers and activists are challenging debt’s centrality to social policy.