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.
Care in Gaza
Asmaa AbuMezied will present a paper on the destruction of care infrastructures in Gaza amid the ongoing genocide. The event will take place online on Friday, February 28, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM EST.
The Care Ethics Research Consortium
Maurice Hamington reports on the recent CERC conference in Utrecht.
Destruction as Care
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.
Caring in, for, and of the Venetian Lagoon
Venice and its lagoon are an excellent showcase and laboratory for how social and environmental intertwine. Care writing offers many mature theoretical perspectives that combine the analysis of social and environmental systems and call for a joint study of human and nonhuman care. The time is ripe for the next step: joint empirical research on these topics, emphasizing the need for immediate action to address global care and environmental crises.
Environment, Labor, Transhuman
Join us on Friday, February 14, from 12 pm to 2 pm ET for a discussion on care, race and ecology.
Visting Lecture 1: Kate Reed
Join us for our first hybrid visiting lecture with Kate Reed who will present a talk on “Rights to Her Labor: Women Workers on Mexico’s Southeastern Railroads.” On February 19 (11:45 am-1:00 pm) both in person at the Care Lab and on Zoom.
Women at Work
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 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.
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.
Extraction, Nourishment, and the Labor of Healing in Bolivia
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.
Urban Care
Join us on Friday, January 31, from 10 am to 12 pm ET for a discussion on care, labor, and urban transformation