Working Paper Launch: Care-Climate Nexus Conceptual Framework
| When: | Thursday, 12 June 2025 - Thursday, 12 June 2025 |
| Where: | Online Event Parktown Management Campus |
| Start time: | 16:00 |
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| RSVP: | Click here to register |
| Cost: | Free, but registration is required |
SCIS invites you to the online launch of the Care-Climate Nexus Conceptual Framework Working Paper
The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) invites you to the launch of the Care-Climate Nexus Conceptual Framework Working Paper, with speakers from the Human Sciences Research Council, the Presidential Climate Commission, and the International Development Research Centre. This online event will take place on 12 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (SAST).
Abstract:
This paper outlines the conceptual linkages between climate change and care work. As is widely evidenced, climate change threatens food security and sovereignty; water availability, accessibility, and quality; health and livelihoods. Where women bear the primary responsibility of unpaid care work, such as food provision, water collection, and care for the young, sick, and elderly, climate change disproportionately disadvantages them. This applies to the work of care and, more broadly, to social reproduction. Climate change, therefore, contributes to an ongoing crisis of care, exacerbating the injustices associated with women carrying a disproportionate share of unpaid care work. As such, fostering a value for care could be a means through which social and environmental inequalities are equally addressed in an ecological transition.
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