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Technologies of Care
Is technology a vehicle of care or of control? Register for the seminar on Friday, October 18, 12-2pm ET
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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The body-territory as politics of care. Exploring connections between popular struggles and diverse ontologies
This blog post aims to explore the connections between the reproductive commons and the processes of popular struggle that women, defending bodies and territories, undertake as practices, formulas and strategies for the care of life, based on relational ontologies.
“Taking care of our territories”: popular economies, community care and self-organization in Colombia
The aim of this blog post is to present some preliminary reflections on the political productivity of community care and popular economies in the Colombian context. Introducing debates around popular economy, I will refer to three concrete experiences and formulate some questions and hypothesis on the possibility of political disputes for popular economy frameworks in the contemporary scenario.
Community care practices in a women’s collective in Mexico City during the pandemic
Understanding the ways in which care is practiced in cities like Mexico City, where social, economic, and gender inequalities are deeply intertwined, is one of my research interests. With these concerns in mind, I approached the study of urban community care.
Pandemic, Solidarity and Community Care in Brazil
Solidarity campaigns in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic, which focused on essential needs like food and hygiene products, highlighted the critical role of collective efforts in providing care. Based on these experiences, this investigation aimed to contribute to the debate on community care in Latin America.
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Men and Care Work: Can Unions Help?
New research suggests that men in labor unions help out more at home.
Having Children and Saving the World
Pro-natalists don’t seem to realize that “having” children requires both caring and paying for them.
Understanding the Care Economy
Why we need better data on the care economy, how we can get it, and what we could do with it.
Dreaming Big
A new year and a new grant has us imagining the next horizon for the Revaluing Care project.
The Value of Valuation
Assigning a market value to non-market work can be risky, but it calls attention to the economic contributions of unpaid care.
Child Care Manifesto
What comes after consciousness raising for child care workers and the families who rely on them?
Automatic Healthcare?
Regulations on “ethical” AI may fail to address larger concerns about the automation of care.
In Person Events
Reading/Practice Group on “Hospicing Modernity”
Let’s get together to read and practice how we can interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet! Co-promoted with the Franklin Humanities Institute.
The Political Economy of Care
A graduate class taught by Jocelyn Olcott in the Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute on sustaining households, communities, and environments. Every Wednesday from 4:40 to 7:10 pm at the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.
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