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

global gender care hub

The programme for the workshop is as follows: 

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

9.00-9.20

Coffee and Registration

9.20-9.30

Welcome and House Keeping Comments, Ruchira Sen and Rachel Murphy

 

 

9.30-11.00

Panel 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

 

 

11.00-11.30

Morning Coffee Break

 

 

11.30-13.00

Panel 2: State Policies, Care, and Care Ethics, Chair: Nicolette Makovicky

 

 

 

Reimagining Birth Policy Through a Feminist Ethics of Care: Gender, Reproduction, and Population Governance in China

Susanne YP Choi, Cai Xiaomin, Chen Lingxi, Alicia Barry, 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.

 

 

13.00-14.30

Lunch

 

 

14.30-15.30

Panel 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 – 16.00

Afternoon Tea Break

 

 

16.00-17.00

Panel 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

 

 

17.00-17.30

In-Progress Video Screening and Round Table Discussion