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. 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.