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At present, Western societies are undergoing multiple processes of profound change. Globalization, economization and neo-liberalism transform formerly nationally organized industrial societies into markets within a highly interdependent global economy. A transformation or dismantling of the Western welfare state can be observed. Simultaneously, a growing individualization of lifestyles and an increasing privatization of responsibilities entail an ongoing erosion of traditional (and often invisible) care networks. New employment patterns, pluralized family forms, changing gender roles, altered conceptions of maternity and paternity, changed family care net- works and the professionalization of hitherto rather privately organized care practices make it necessary to rethink care and its social organization.
Such dynamics challenge the (traditional, but still influential) gendered respectively fe-minized nature and notion of care. Today, care is not a female „labor of love” anymore, invisibly done in the private sphere of the family. Care has become a subject of struggle – not only in everyday life (when families and other care networks desperately try to meet the care receivers’ existential human needs), but also in the political sphere (where solutions for the “care crisis” are urgently sought) and finally in public discourse (where shortcomings in the field of care are increasingly addressed). In sum, care can be regarded as the focal point of many (allegedly) controversial social processes whose color spectrum and gender implications shall be illuminated by the conference.
Information on participating / attending:
Please register by emailing to conference@forgendercare.de no later than January 20th, 2019. Please note that there is no conference fee. The conference dinner, however, will need to be paid for individually.
Date:
03/13/2019 17:00 - 03/15/2019 15:30
Registration deadline:
01/20/2019
Event venue:
Räume 1010 und 1012 in der Juristischen Fakultät (Gebäude H), Universitätsstraße 24
86159 Augsburg
Bayern
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Nutrition / healthcare / nursing, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
01/17/2019
Sender/author:
Michael Hallermayer
Department:
Presse - Öffentlichkeitsarbeit - Information
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event62542
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