WE CARE!
Feminist responses to the Care Crises
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Thursday 18th June
Caring and social provisioning as a starting point for feminist analyses
The aim of conference day one is to learn more about the care workers, their working conditions and the institutional contexts in which care work is done, to understand the different dimensions and dynamics of care economy and to specify and contextualize the actual care crises. The first conference day is supposed to provide us knowledge and capacities to explore and develop feminist approaches and practices. The UNRISD study on “Political and Social Economy of Care” serves us as a source and basis for discussion. It is the first comprehensive comparative research on North-South and an interesting starting point to discuss theoretical approaches, methods, notions and concepts from a feminist perspective.
Friday 19th June
Three thematic areas of care
The conference day two highlights three parallel thematic areas of care, and tracks different approaches to the care debates, which are important in strategizing and designing WIDE’s future policies. The purpose of the day two is also to discuss and deepen feminist understandings, to plan actions and develop strategies.
The three topics are:
PAID CARE WORK IN THE FORMAL AND INFORMAL SECTOR
FOOD CHAINS AND CARE
BODY POLITICS AND CARE REGIMES
Saturday 20th June
The Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Looking at the Past and Future in Anger
The theme of the conference day three is the current global financial crisis. The financial crisis of the 1980s in Latin America and in many African and Asian countries was a starting point for a new international feminist debate on neoliberalism and macroeconomic policies and for a feminist critique of WTO-politics. DAWN played a crucial role in promoting the discussion about feminist critique of economic policies, which spread also to Western Europe and Northern America. Later on the discussion divided into separate topics - trade policies, gender budgets, social and gender regimes and neoliberalism - but the economy of care persisted as a basic issue in all of those threads. Now the circle is closing since the global financial crisis has returned.