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

Care is undervalued
all over the world.

We’re exploring why and how to change that.

Upcoming Events

Chasing Independence — Book Conversation with Guillermina Altomonte

October 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.

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

November 5, 2026

5:00-6:00 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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Intimacy, Disability and Violence: Working Papers Seminar with Zoë H. Wool

November 12, 2026

12:00-1:30PM ET

Smith Warehouse, Bay 4

Join us for a Working Papers Seminar with Zoë H. Wool (University of Toronto) on intimacy, disability, and the violences of post-9/11 US warmaking, with responses by Kathi Weeks and Emily Lim Rogers.

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Lessons from Latin America: Workshop Series (2026-2027)

December 3, 2026

Online

Each issue of our upcoming OA journal is anchored by a hybrid mini-conference hosted at Duke University, bringing together scholars, practitioners, and creative contributors to develop the issue’s themes in dialogue. Check out the calendar for our mini-conference series here!

Care Conversation Series (2026 – 2027)

October 30, 2026

Hybrid

Check out the Care Conversations we have planned for the 2026-2027 AY! We are updating this regularly, so circle back to see what events we’ve added.

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Current

Open Calls

October 2, 2026

Call for Papers — Contours of Pain: Perspectives from the Humanities

The Reevaluating Care in the Global Economy Humanities Working Group at the University of South Carolina invites proposals for an interdisciplinary workshop, “Contours of Pain,” to be held at the University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) on February 18 and 19, 2027. Elaine Scarry remarked in The Body in Pain (1985) that pain has three […]

September 29, 2026

Call for Papers: Infrastructure(s) and Care

Infrastructure(s) and Care, our second issue of our upcoming, open-access journal, Care in Common, is now open for submissions! We invite scholars, practitioners, activists, and artists to submit work and join us at Duke University, December 3-5, 2026. We welcome scholarly articles, practitioner and activist writing, and creative work in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

June 15, 2026

Call for Papers: Lessons from Latin America (All Inaugural Issues + Workshops)

Care in Common — our new open-access, interdisciplinary journal — will be assembled through a series of four inaugural workshops at Duke University, each dedicated to a thematic issue. Each issue is part of our broader series, Lessons from Latin America, which centers Latin America as a global leader in care-related social, political, and economic transformation. We will be opening CfPs for each workshop as they approach. Browse what we have planned here!

June 15, 2026

Call for Papers: Care Against Violence

Care Against Violence: Gender Violence, Reproductive Justice, and Social Reproduction is now open for submissions. We invite scholars, practitioners, activists, and artists to submit work and join us at Duke University, October 22–24, 2026. We welcome scholarly articles, practitioner and activist writing, and creative work in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Abstract deadline: 1 August 2026.

June 9, 2026

Call for Papers (Rolling): Care in Common

Care in Common is accepting submissions on a rolling basis! Whether you have a finished piece or a work in progress, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome scholarly articles, practitioner and activist writing, and creative work in English, Spanish, and Portuguese — on any aspect of care in its social, cultural, and ecological dimensions.

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The Latest From

Care Talk

October 16, 2026

Who Plans to Care? What Teenagers Tell Us about the Future of Care Work

New research examines how young people see themselves fitting into the care economy.

October 13, 2026

A Duty of Care?: Cornell and the question of care ethics

The Cornell rape case shows how often we ask legal concepts like consent and duty of care to do the work of care ethics.

September 7, 2026

AI for the Common Good?

The post-mortem on this summer’s rogue AI-swarming incident perhaps has a lesson about solidarity.

September 6, 2026

India’s Silent Revolution: Redistribution through Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women

New research assesses the impacts of India’s Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) program as a vehicle for recognizing women’s care labors.

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.

July 30, 2026

Are You Suffering from Low T?

Low Total Compensation Syndrome. It’s not you. It’s the economy—a silent epidemic affecting 51% of the population.

June 8, 2026

Reimagining the Economics of Late Life

Conference at the New School takes a care perspective on the economics of aging.

May 26, 2026

We Need a Care Package!

We’ve built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.

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The Latest From

The 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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