Social Care
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Urban Care
Join us on Friday, January 31, from 10 am to 12 pm ET for a discussion on care, labor, and urban transformation
Beyond Deficit: Masculinity and Young Men’s Care Work
The world is changing, leading to a re-examination of manhood. The traditional idea of a strong, silent man who refrains from showing emotion has received increased attention as we recognise the harmful effect of these behaviours. Consequently, there is a growing call to promote caring expressions of masculinity.
Sociologists on Care
A Scottish researcher muses on insights from a recent conference.
Telemedicine and the Delegation of In-Person Care
Telemedicine’s virtual connection requires the in-person efforts of both paid and unpaid caregivers to function. Despite their essential role, these lower status in situ caregivers get left out of the picture. Failing to support in situ caregivers both re-entrenches hierarchies within caregiving while undermining the practical and ethical success of telemedicine itself.
Unpaid Care Labor
In this seminar we will discuss how childcare represents unpaid care labor. Join us on Wednesday, November 13, 10am-12pm ET!
Mexico Lowers Age of Social Security for Women
Extending its noncontributory pension benefit, Mexico’s new program will give more spending money to women in their early 60s.