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Global Sociology and Feminist Perspectives on Care, Care Work and the Struggle for a Careful World

Tuesday, 12 July 2016: 09:00-10:30
Location: Hörsaal 33 (Main Building)
RC32 Women in Society (host committee)

Language: English

In contemporary economic, political and social change we are witnessing a fundamental restructuring of care and care work coming along with social inequalities. Different parallel, intersecting and/or interdependent processes can be observed: 

  • the commodification and rationalization of social reproduction, care and care work by care industries and entrepreneurship, scientific and technological innovations (like care robots, social freezing);
  • the commodification, de-commodification, and re-location of care between market, state, third sector, households, and networks;
  • trans- and international migration and migrants’ work in global care chains and the care gaps in and between the societies of the Global North and South, East and West;
  • feminist/social protest and movements for a careful society acting between criticism of capitalism and struggling for a better life in a social and ecological perspective.


The session aims to bring together research from around the world. Questions are: 

  • How are care and care work reorganized and reshaped? 
  • What are the preconditions and effects in terms of social inequalities?
  • Which are the main theoretical and empirical perspectives, approaches and results of research in different parts of the world? 
  • How sociology and feminist approaches on care and care work are challenged to bring together the local and the global? 
  • What can and shall a global sociology and feminist perspectives on care and care work afford in the context of civil society’s protest and movements?
Session Organizers:
Brigitte AULENBACHER, Johannes Kepler University, Austria, Brigitte LIEBIG, University of Applied Sciences of Northwest Switzerland, Switzerland and Encarnacion GUTIERREZ RODRIGUEZ, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Chair:
Brigitte AULENBACHER, Department of Theoretical Sociology and Social Analyse, Austria
Co-chairs:
Brigitte LIEBIG, University of Applied Sciences of Northwest Switzerland, Switzerland and Encarnacion GUTIERREZ RODRIGUEZ, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Posters:
372.1
International Feminist Perspectives on Care Economy
Sabrina SCHMITT, Women`s Academy Munich, Germany; Gerd MUTZ, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany; Birgit ERBE, Women`s Academy Munich, Germany
372.2
Commodification of Domestic Labour and the Making of the Chilean Nation.
Rosario FERNANDEZ, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
372.3
Surrogacy and the Meaning of Care Work
L. M. Anabel STOECKLE, Wayne State University, USA
372.4
Working Family Carers in Austria: Tensions Between Institutional Frameworks and Lifeworld Realities
Ingrid MAIRHUBER, Working Life Research Centre (FORBA), Austria; Karin SARDADVAR, Working Life Research Centre (FORBA), Austria
372.5
Care, Care Work and the Struggle for a Careful World from the Perspective of the Sociology of Masculinities
Sylka SCHOLZ, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany; Sophie RUBY, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
372.6
Mapping Care in the Era of Post Welfarism: An Interrogation of the Contemporary ‘Market' for Care Work in India
Deepali DUNGDUNG, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
372.7
Challenges in the Professionalization of Care: An Analysis from the Perspective of Southern Spain
Maria Teresa MARTIN PALOMO, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain; Evangelina OLID, University of Seville, Spain; Inmaculada ZAMBRANO, University Pablo de Olavide, Spain; Jose Maria MUNOZ TERRON, University of Almería, Spain
372.8
The Introduction of Capitalism into the Family. New Forms of Paid Family Care and the Consequences for Gender Inequality
Christopher GRAGES, University of Hamburg, Germany; Thurid EGGERS, University of Hamburg, Germany
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