Event

In recognition of the UN International Day of Care and Support on October 29, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago and the University of Cape Town, South Africa are holding a virtual dialogue to center 'care' in the care economy, at 12:00 p.m. on October 29.

The care work, paid and unpaid, that keeps society going is often 'invisible' but it is essential to economic production. Speakers will approach 'care' from various disciplinary, policy, and applied perspectives in the Caribbean and South Africa to share research findings, ideas, and experiences around these labours. This multi-sectoral, cross-disciplinary dialogue will present diversities as well as similar patterns around the centrality of care in social reproduction, and in imagining more equitable lifeways for the future, further strengthening Africa-Caribbean knowledge production.

 Speakers:

-       Prof. Ameeta Jaga, Motherload project, University of Cape Town

-       Prof. Fiona Ross, Motherload project, University of Cape Town

-       Dr. Bephyer Parey, Disabilities Studies Research Cluster, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, UWI St. Augustine

-       Dr. Hyacinth O. Blake, Sociologist, Trinidad and Tobago (PhD in Sociology, University of Sheffield)

Moderator:

-       Dr. Shelene Gomes, Principal Investigator, Intimate Labours project (Sociology Unit, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI St. Augustine)

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Further information on the Care Economy can be found by clicking here