Governance

Care Against Violence: Gender Violence, Reproductive Justice, and Social Reproduction

Event Date: October 22, 2026

Join us for our first workshop to discuss articles in preparation for the journal Care in Common.

AI for the Common Good?

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott
Post Date: 7 September, 2026

The post-mortem on this summer’s rogue AI-swarming incident perhaps has a lesson about solidarity.

India’s Silent Revolution: Redistribution through Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women

Posted By: Prabha Kotiswaran
Post Date: 6 September, 2026

New research assesses the impacts of India’s Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) program as a vehicle for recognizing women’s care labors.

When care becomes infrastructure: community solidarity against gender violence in urban Mexico

Post Date: 30 May, 2026

In the outskirts of León, Guanajuato, where state institutions fall short, women have built community care networks that function as everyday infrastructure for surviving poverty and gender-based violence. Their practices are not perfect, but they make life liveable.

We Need a Care Package!

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 26 May, 2026

We’ve built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.

The Expendables

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 14 May, 2026

What ancient Rome teaches us about human value in the age of AI.

Book Conversation with Wendy Harcourt

Post Date: 27 March, 2026

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

War Dollars, Care Dollars  (and No Sense)

Posted By: Nancy Folbre
Post Date: 19 March, 2026

What are the care costs of a senseless war?

Infrastructures of Wellbeing

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott and Tania Rispoli
Post Date: 25 February, 2026

Another webinar! Join us to learn about the link between geography, gender, and subjective well-being in Italy through research by Erica Aloè (Sapienza University of Rome), Roberta Di Stefano (Sapienza University of Rome), Marina Zannella (ISTAT), and Alessandra De Rose (Sapienza University of Rome).

️ Friday, March 27, 2026
⏰12:00-1:15PM (EDT)
Online
Registration free but required

Disreputable Care

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott and Tania Rispoli
Post Date: 25 February, 2026

Join us for our upcoming Working Paper Seminar with Viviana Valle Gomez (UCSB). By bringing ‘anarchowhore epistemologies’ to the forefront of feminist and labor studies, we will explore the inherently caring, anti-state, and world-making practices of sex workers.

️ Thursday, March 26, 2026
⏰11:45AM-1:15PM (EDT)
Online
Registration free but required

The Power of Data in Care Work Policy

Posted By: Julia Kowalski
Post Date: 26 January, 2026

What can a laundry bucket teach us about how beliefs about the value of quantitative data in policy making shape efforts to address unpaid care work?

The Care Economy Revolution

Posted By: Jocelyn Olcott
Post Date: 25 November, 2025

Two very different projects argue that the care economy could bring about the end of capitalism as we know it.