Global Sociology and Feminist Perspectives on Care, Care Work and the Struggle for a Careful World
Global Sociology and Feminist Perspectives on Care, Care Work and the Struggle for a Careful World
Abstract Submissions Closed
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?
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