Bhattacharya’s Workshop for Graduate Students

27 Sep 2024 - 12:00 / 27 Sep 2024 - 14:15

“What is SRT? Questions and Answers for Our Troubled Times”
a workshop by Professor Tithi Bhattacharya
Friday September 27, 2024 at 12 noon
Isabel Bader Theatre
91 Charles Street West, 3rd floor, seminar room

 

Questions for Discussion:
Is there really a crisis of care?
Is social reproduction simply care, or is it something more complex?
How should we understand the shifting relationships among social reproduction, racial capitalism, and the state?
What does care signify in the context of our organizing efforts?
How can we radically reimagine an anti-capitalist politics of care?

Suggested Readings:
– Tithi Bhattacharya Introduction Mapping Social Reproduction Theory

– Diana Paton Gender, History, Global History and Atlantic Slavery

– Nancy Fraser Crisis of Care_ On the Social Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism