Issue 1 | Care Against Violence: Gender Violence, Reproductive Justice, and Social Reproduction
Workshop: October 22–24, 2026 | Duke University | Hybrid
Call for papers: Now open

The past decade in Latin America has witnessed an extraordinary conjuncture: massive mobilizations against gender violence alongside deepening crises of femicide and obstetric violence; hard-won expansions of reproductive rights alongside sustained assaults on those rights; and a growing insistence on understanding gender violence as structurally produced by the same forces that organize — and devalue — care and social reproduction. This issue asks how gender violence, reproductive justice, and social reproduction are imbricated — not simply adjacent concerns, but phenomena that must be understood together. It welcomes scholarship, accounts of social movements, and creative submissions that bear witness to lives shaped by this intersection.

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Issue 2 | Infrastructures of Care
Workshop: TBD | Duke University | Hybrid
Call for papers: Coming soon

Care is shaped by the worlds it sustains. It is always already embedded in the material, social, institutional, and ecological structures that order life as we know it. But care is also a creative force, giving rise to alternative structures and alternative worlds. The encounter between care and infrastructure(s) has long motivated care theorizing, but is taking on particular force in Latin America today, where an unprecedented array of such encounters—from Bogotá’s Manzanas del Cuidado and the national care systems of Chile and Uruguay, to commoning practices, popular-economy approaches, and more—continue to make the region one of the most generative sites for thinking through this phenomenon. Drawing on these and similar cases, the issue asks: What might these encounters teach us about care itself, about how it travels, and about the worlds it interacts with and helps create?

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Issue 3 | Norm Diffusion: Care as Right, Ecology, and Law
Workshop: TBD | Duke University | Hybrid
Call for papers: Coming soon

Over the past decade, a remarkable set of juridical shifts has unfolded across the Americas — from the Inter-American Court’s recognition of care as a human right, to Uruguay’s pioneering Sistema Nacional Integrado de Cuidados, to constitutional innovations recognizing the rights of nature in Ecuador and beyond. This issue examines how care norms travel, transform, and take root: how model legislation gets adapted, diluted, or radicalized as it moves between international bodies and local governments; how feminist legal theory engages with care; and what it means for law to recognize an obligation to care for people, for cultural heritage, and for the earth.

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Issue 4 | Critical Perspectives on Care
Workshop: TBD | Duke University | Hybrid
Call for papers: Coming soon

The care framing is not without its critics — and this issue takes those critiques seriously. From Black feminist theory’s suspicion that care discourse has served racial capitalism and the surveillance of Black and Indigenous families, to Social Reproduction Theory’s concern that centering care risks obscuring exploitation and dispossession, to decolonial challenges to the universalizing assumptions embedded in much care ethics — this issue asks hard questions about who is protected and who is exposed by care frameworks, and about the conditions under which care might become a site of liberation rather than control.

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All issues welcome scholarly articles, practitioner and activist writing, and creative work in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Questions? Reach out to us at revaluingcarelab@duke.edu.