About
Revaluing Care in the Global Economy is an international, interdisciplinary project examining the global inequities in care provision. Despite extensive research, data, and advocacy, care work remains deeply undervalued and disproportionately falls to women, especially those from marginalized racial or ethnic groups. Conventional solutions—whether state, market, or technology-based—have done little to change this, and even minor policy reforms remain hard to secure.
Areas of Research
We launched this project in 2018 to seek ways to open up this question of valuing care and to think about it from new perspectives. Founding members of the network agreed to focus on three principal research areas:
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Metrics
How to measure care, how it affects care when we try to measure it
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Governance
How laws and policies both foster and reflect normative values of care
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Social Practices
How various practices and social formations inform attention to care
Fundamental Premises
We’ve adopted two fundamental premises that have become even more evident since we started:
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1
Care Types Affect Each Other
Social, cultural, and ecological care are all interdependent and imbricate.
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We Need Innovative Solutions
Innovative responses to the “crisis of care” require going beyond conventional solutions.
Who We Are
A collection of people seeking ways to open up the question of valuing care and to think about it from new perspectives
Contact Us
We’d love to hear from you.