Cooperatives and Care
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Cooperatives and Care, exploring the social and cultural role of cooperative organizations in revaluing care and labor. Wednesday, November 5, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
Taxing the Top
As the distribution of both wealth and income has become unequal, political efforts to tax the top to finance investment in public goods like childcare have gained traction.
The Unseen Price: Gender and the Crisis of Unpaid Care in Southern Europe
In Southern European countries, the welfare system has historically relied on one silent pillar: the family. However, this once-resilient model is now an unsustainable trap, threatening gender equity and jeopardizing social sustainability. It is time to re-evaluate who truly pays the price of care.
The Motherhood Gamble
While many mothers will enjoy adequate support from a partner, a considerable number are likely to pay a disproportionate share of the costs of raising children, putting their families at risk of poverty.
Aula Verde – Tree Room: Art and Science for Climate Justice
As part of the series “Composting Theory: Ecological Care in Practice,” the Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI hosts “Aula Verde – Tree Room: Art and Science for Climate Justice,” a participatory workshop with artist and environmental engineer Andrea Conte exploring ecological art, forest science, and climate justice. Saturday, October 25, 2025 · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM ET · Duke Campus Farm.
Book Conversation with Jina B. Kim
Join us for a conversation with writer and scholar Jina Kim (Smith College) about her new book Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke University Press). Through this work, Kim reimagines care as a practice of survival, refusal, and collective world-building across disabled, queer, and racialized communities.
Urban Care in Bogotá
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online bilingual seminar on Urban Care in Bogotá, exploring how the city’s Manzanas del Cuidado (Care Blocks) reshape local governance and the politics of care in Latin America. Wednesday, October 22, 2025 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET · Online
Beyond Choice: Why Economics Needs Reproductive Justice
What if the concept of “choice” in reproductive decisions is an economic illusion? The Reproductive Justice framework, created by women of color, argues that true autonomy is shaped by systemic inequality. It’s time for economics to adopt this powerful lens.
Back to the Future? Women’s Work and Care in Argentina
In Argentina, the Milei government’s austerity agenda has dismantled the fragile infrastructures that sustain everyday life. Cuts to care programs and gender institutions have shifted social reproduction back onto women’s unpaid labor. The article traces how this erosion of care undermines both equality and democracy.
Informal Care in Southern Europe
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Informal Care in Southern Europe, examining how gendered dynamics and occupational impacts shape the challenges of informal care in the region. Monday, October 20, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
Book Conversation with Emma Amador
Join us for a conversation between historians Emma Amador and Cecilia Márquez. Drawing from her new book The Politics of Care Work (Duke University Press), Amador will explore how Puerto Rican women organized for social and economic justice through care work, both on the island and in the continental U.S., from the early 20th century to the present.
Reproductive Justice and Economics
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Reproductive Justice and Economics, exploring how feminist economic frameworks can center reproductive justice as a core research paradigm. Wednesday, October 1, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.