february, 2022

10feb - 28feb 109:00 amfeb 28Postpandemic Care Strikes: Centring Migration & Critical Race perspectives (Premilla Nadasen)

Event Details

What are the possibilities for international and cross-sectoral care strikes in a post-pandemic world?

LINK TO EVENT PROGRAMME HERE

Thursday, 10 March 2022

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST

The pandemic has both resulted in exacerbating states and corporations’ care washing and heightened public sensibilities to the gendered, classed and racialised divisions of reproductive work. Bringing together activists and academics who have organised, participated and researched care strikes and other forms of mobilisation across three continents, the seminar will shift conversations on the theories and praxis of care strikes and re-imagine what a global postpandemic wave of care strikes could look like.

This virtual symposium seeks to initiate a transnational and cross sectoral conversation about care strikes that centres ‘race’ and migration. We bring social reproduction, critical race theories and migration studies to ask new questions about future care strikes in a (post)pandemic world:

  • How can care strikes tackle the racial divisions of reproductive work?
  • How do migrant and racialised workers’ organising praxis bring to the question of postpandemic care strikes?
  • To what extent does privileging strikes in the informal sector mean other forms of organising-such as mutual aid, community organising, testimonials or labour rights’ reform – are sidelined?
  • What are the possibilities for international and cross sectoral care strikes in a postpandemic world?

 

Keynote:

Premilla Nadasen

Barnard College

New York, USA

Premilla Nadasen is a Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University.  She is most interested in the activism and visions of liberation of poor and working-class women of color. She has been involved in social justice organising for many decades and published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements, and grass-roots community organising. She is the author of two award-winning books Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States and Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement and is currently writing a biography of South African singer and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba.

This event is part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series and has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation.

Time

10 (Thursday) 9:00 am - 28 (Monday) 12:30 pm

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