A Reconsideration of Care: Pursuing Gender-Equal Care for Global Health and Wellbeing

global gender care hub

Registration is essential please email  gendercarehub@area.ox.ac.uk

This workshop is supported by the Academy of Medical Science (AMS) Networking Grant Scheme (Ref: NGR2\1471).  

The programme for the workshop is as follows, for abstracts please see: 

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9.00-9.20Coffee and Registration
9.20-9.30Welcome and House Keeping Comments, Ruchira Sen and Rachel Murphy
  
9.30-11.00Panel 1: Care Ethics and Practices of Mothering and Grand-mothering, Chair: Chigusa Yamaura
  
 Gendered Neoliberal Subjectivities in Tokyo’s Municipal Motherhood Support Programs, Aya Kitamura, Tsuda University
  
 

The Time to Comb My Hair: Self-care for Single Mothers in India

Ruchira Sen, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India

  
 

Women Social Workers and Support for Custodial Grandmothers in China’s Depopulating Villages: Ethics of Care Under Constraint

Rachel Murphy, University of Oxford

  
11.00-11.30Morning Coffee Break
  
11.30-13.00Panel 2: State Policies, Care, and Care Ethics, Chair: Nicolette Makovicky
  
 

China’s Shift to Pronatalist Policies and Its Implications for Gender Equality

Susanne YP Choi, Xiaomin Cai, Lingxi Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

 

  
 “Gender Ideology” and Care: Defining the Family in the Sex Education Debates in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska, University of Warsaw
  
 Reconfiguring Care: Childcare Policy and the Shifting Gender Division of Labour in Japan, Chigusa Yamaura, University of Oxford.
  
13.00-14.30Lunch
  
14.30-15.30Panel 3: Elder Care and Ethics of Care Chair, Ruchira Sen
  
 Reimagining Elder Care in Ghana: The Effect of Experiments on the Gendering, Aging, and Social Classing of Care, Cati Coe, Carleton University
  
 

Ageing without Children in Depopulating Communities in Ukraine 

Yuliya Hilevych, University of Groningen

  
15.30 – 16.00Afternoon Tea Break
  
16.00-17.00Panel 4: Migration and Care Economies Chair, Rachel Murphy 
  
 

‘24-hour care’ and the new care economy in Europe

Helma Lutz

  
 Guestworker Migration and the Right to Care: Evidence from Australia’s PALM Scheme, Matt Withers and Rasika Jayasuriya, Australian National University
  
17.00-17.30In-Progress Video Screening and Round Table Discussion