Care Talk

Demanda por el reconocimiento del cuidado como Derecho Humano

Posted By: Gabriela Marzonetto
Post Date: 9 March, 2024

La sociedad civil se pronuncia sobre la petición del gobierno argentino a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, que escuchará los argumentos del caso esta semana en el tribunal de San José, Costa Rica.

Resisting Gilead

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott
Post Date: 9 March, 2024

The New-York Historical Society hosts an all-star lineup to discuss histories and possible futures of care. 

Demanding Care as a Human Right 

Posted By: Gabriela Marzonetto
Post Date: 9 March, 2024

Civil society weighs in on the Argentine government’s petition to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which will hear arguments in the case this week at the tribunal in San José, Costa Rica.

Glass Walls and Finance Capital

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott
Post Date: 18 February, 2024

Alicia Girón’s open-access book Economía de la vida offers a comparative perspective on the ways that financialized capitalism has shaped the care economy.

Global Perspectives on Care and COVID

Post Date: 18 February, 2024

A new collection of essays looks back on a global crisis that became a care catastrophe.

Beyond Privilege: Narrating Diverse Stories of Caring Masculinities

Posted By: Riikka Prattes
Post Date: 28 January, 2024

New research on “caring masculinities” challenges traditional gender norms by examining men’s relationality, vulnerability, and nurturing qualities.

Little Kids vs. Big Business

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 28 January, 2024

Current U.S. Congressional efforts to expand the Child Tax Credit offer telling insights into the partisan divide.

Taxing the Stork

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 14 January, 2024

New empirical research reveals why European family support policies, while far more generous than those of the U.S., are not as “pro-parent” as they claim to be

The U.S. Child Care Crunch

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 14 January, 2024

Stripped of support provided during the pandemic, the child-care industry is cracking up

Responding to Violence with Care

Posted By: Kristin Collins
Post Date: 17 November, 2023

How different might our society look if public safety could be reimagined as caring for people and communities?

CryptoCare©

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 17 November, 2023

Perhaps you’re curious to know—just hypothetically–how far the current value of global cryptocurrency could go toward increasing the supply of child care in the U.S.

Podcast: Undervaluing the Work of Care

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 7 November, 2023

Check out this wide-ranging, international, and interdisciplinary discussion of the many reasons why care work is undervalued.