Raising the Bar: Public Employment and Paid Family Leave in North Carolina
Advocates of paid family and medical leave try a novel approach. Research into efforts to move paid leave forward at the municipality level reveals surprising results.
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.
Caring Archives: Tift Merritt on Care and the Music Industry
The Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute invites you to an in-person talk by Tift Merritt on the intersections of care and the music industry in the era of digital streaming. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 19, from 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM ET, at the Revaluing Care Lab in Durham.
Creating Common Care (Bilingual Seminar)
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project invites you to a seminar on Creating Common Care, examining how community care structures intersect with labor, the state, and economic precarity in Latin America. The event will take place online on Friday, April 4, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
Surviving the Future: Practices of Care in A’a Teyze’s Garden
The labors of Afro-Turks with the natural world that lie outside of purely productivist grammars of relating within which they are entangled “spatialize acts of survival” that are disruptive enough as to wage war against domination.
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.
What Labour Justice? Care Work as a Duty & Social Welfare
The concept of the worker-citizen, embedded in the Indian Constitution, raises questions about the implications for care workers.
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.
The Care Ethics Research Consortium
Maurice Hamington reports on the recent CERC conference in Utrecht.
Destruction as Care
Destruction as care means imagining more-than-human flourishing. The experience of Galician common lands challenges the idea that care only sustains life. Acts of destruction, like cutting trees, can also be care, questioning whose life is being reproduced and why. More-than-human relationalities in land management expand ideas of ecological reciprocity.
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.
Environment, Labor, Transhuman
Join us on Friday, February 14, from 12 pm to 2 pm ET for a discussion on care, race and ecology.