10:00 – 12:00 |Panel I: Making care visible
The aim of this panel is to discuss the different aspects of care that become visible depending on the moment in the life cycle or the position in the social structure, as well as the strategies of different actors to valorize care activities.
Priscila Vieira, Cebrap (Brazil) – Family care: a look at the particularities of caring for the elderly within families / Cuidando em família: um olhar para as particularidades do cuidado familiar de pessoas idosas / Cuidando en familia: un vistazo a las particularidades del cuidado familiar a personas mayores
María Eugenia Rausky, IdIHCS- CONICET/Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) – Contributions from socio-anthropological studies of childhood to the analysis of care practices / Contribuições dos estudos socioantropológicos da infância para a análise das práticas de cuidado/ Los aportes de los estudios socio-antropológicos de las infancias al análisis de las prácticas de cuidado
Talja Blokland, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) / Mecila Senior Fellow 2024 – Between Institutional and Domestic Logics: Symbolic Capital in Community Development in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood in Berlin, Germany / Entre lógicas institucionais e domésticas: capital simbólico no desenvolvimento comunitário em um bairro desfavorecido de Berlim / Entre lógicas institucionales y la domésticas: el capital simbólico en el desarrollo comunitario de un barrio desfavorecido de Berlín
Landy Sánchez, El Colegio de México (Mexico) – Heat and care: rethinking the implication of climate change for family and public care / Calor e cuidados: repensando as implicações das mudanças climáticas para os cuidados públicos e da familia / Calor y cuidados: repensando las implicaciones del cambio climático para los cuidados familiares y públicos
Moderation: Bianca Tavolari, Cebrap / Mecila Principal Investigator (Brazil)
Discussants:
Luiza Nassif Pires, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Eugenia Brage, Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET/ PAGU, Unicamp /Mecila Junior Fellow 2023 (Brazil)
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Mecila Final Workshop | Mecila/DWIH T20 side Event
International Symposium “Care that Matters, Matters of Care: Overcoming Inequalities through Care Policies”
Brazil has assumed the presidency of the G20 in 2024 and will host government representatives from its member states and invited countries who will participate in the Leaders’ Summit and ministerial meetings. Within this framework, the T20 – a group that brings together think tanks and research institutes from the G20 – aims to identify emerging societal challenges and discuss evidence-based proposals to address them, opening a channel of communication with the G20 and seeking to influence its agenda. Mecila, the Maria Sibylla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, was invited to participate in the T20 Brazil discussions and decided to link it to its final workshop, so that the 2024 Mecila Fellows would have the opportunity to discuss their work with academics, civil society and political actors from Brazil and other countries.
The symposium «Care that Matters, Matters of Care: Overcoming Inequalities through Care Policies» is framed in this context – as a side event of the T20 – bringing together researchers as well as civil society actors and government representatives working on care policies as key tools to address gender inequalities and their intersections with class and ethnic discrimination.
Care activities are essential for the reproduction of society and the maintenance of life. When the capacity to raise and educate children, cook meals, care for the sick, or maintain clean homes and strong communities is diminished, the entire social order crumbles. Yet, despite their importance, these activities have historically been undervalued and unequally distributed in our societies. Feminist scholars and activists have long advocated for the valorization and recognition of care as a crucial component of the economy, and in recent years, Latin American countries have made progress in designing and implementing public policies that seek to better distribute care in society in order to reduce inequalities.
More information: https://mecila.net/es/evento/care-that-matters-matters-of-care-overcoming-inequalities-through-care-policies