| Helen Joseph Memorial Lecture, 14 september 2010 |
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The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, Prof Ihron Rensburg and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof Rory Ryan, hereby invite you to attend the annual Helen Joseph memorial lecture. Date: Tuesday, 14 september 2010 Time: 17:30 for 18:00 Venue: University of Johannesburg Council chambers auckland Park Kingsway Campus Speaker: Dr Shahra Razavi, Research Co-ordinator at the United Nations Research institute for social development, Geneva Topic: Worlds Apart: Rethinking Care in a Development Context RSVP: Ms Nokuthula Siqebengu E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it The strike by public sector workers has raised many issues and challenges about care work. Shahra Razavi’s lecture titled “Worlds Apart: rethinking Care in a Development Context” will focus on the inequalities in care provision and why care matters for social development. While women perform the bulk of unpaid care work across all economies and cultures, this work remains undervalued and is not accounted for in labour force surveys and GDP. She will also consider the implications of the findings of this research for public policy and for developing countries. The lecture draws on research based in six countries in the Global South namely, South Africa, Tanzania, Argentina, Nicaragua, India and the Republic of Korea. About the Speaker Shahra Razavi is Senior Research Co-ordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), where she oversees the Institute’s Programme on Gender and Development. Shahra specializes in the gender dimensions of social development, with a particular focus on livelihoods and social policy. She is a member of the editorial board of Development in Practice, Global Social Policy, and Journal of Peasants Studies, as well as advisor to WIEGO (Women in the Informal Economy Globalizing and Organizing) and CROP (Comparative Research Programme on Poverty). Her recent books include The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards “Embedded Liberalism”? (Routledge, 2009), and Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’, edited with Shireen Hassim (Palgrave, 2006). Shahra was born in Iran and now lives in Geneva. Bookmark this article:          |
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