Commons

Care and Territory

(Bilingual session / Sesión bilingue)

Join us for the last session in our Working Papers Seminar series! This time featuring two working papers on community, care, and territory in Mexico: one tracing collective care practices across Cerro Tepepolco and the chinampas of Xochimilco, expanding care beyond the human to encompass land, water, and biological diversity, and another examining how anarcho-magonista women sustained the Mexican Revolution through emotional labor and mutual aid. Response by Holly Worthen (Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca)

🗓️ Friday, April 24, 2026
⏰12:00-2:00 PM (EDT)
📍Online (Zoom – Translated captioning available)
🎫Registration free but required

Book Conversation with Wendy Harcourt

Join us for a conversation with scholar and RCGE Board Member Wendy Harcourt about her new open-access book Conundrums of Care: Feminist Entanglements in Critical Development Studies. Drawing on stories from different places, peoples, and histories, the book illuminates how care is understood across key feminist debates — from social reproduction and interspecies relations in posthumanism, to environmental justice in feminist political ecology, to reciprocity and accountability in postdevelopment and decolonialism. Responses from fellow Board Members Arturo Escobar (UNC), Felwine Sarr (Duke University), and Suzanne Bergeron (University of Michigan).

🗓️ Wednesday, April 29
⏰10:00-11:00AM (EDT)
📍Online (Zoom – Translated captioning available)
🎫Registration free but required

Dispossession, World Ecology, and Care: A View from Kenya

Capitalism remakes relations among humans and between humans and more-than-human natures. This process has fostered a minimalist, productivist notion of care, commodifying or eroding relations that resist accumulation. Focusing on colonial Kenya, I explore how ecological crises and commodification disrupted interspecies patterns of care central to pastoral Maasai lifeways.

Governance of “Care” as an Urban Resource?

Care-full Municipalism offers a theoretical and policy vision for rethinking urban governance in ways that prioritize life-making over profit-making, sustainability over extraction, and collective responsibility over individual burdens.