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SUMMARY:Intimacy and Inequality\; Conceptualising Care Labour in Kenya  - 
 Professor Ambreena Manji\, Cardiff University
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:This Talk is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term S
 eminar Series: Gender in Africa \n\nOver a decade ago\, in her influential
  paper Global Care Chains and Emotional Surplus Value\, Hochschild introdu
 ced the idea of ‘global care chains’ to feminist studies of care work 
 and emotional labour. Taking global statistics on migration and the femini
 sation of labour as her starting point\, Hochschild examined the role of m
 igrant women as an essential component of today’s global care chains and
  explored what she described as a series of personal links between people 
 across the globe based on the paid or unpaid work of caring. The expansion
 \, increasing significance and global characteristics of care work are now
  widely recognised. Whilst the global care chain debate has been instructi
 ve – it has spawned both valuable theoretical insights and important emp
 irical studies\, ranging from the experience of illegality of migrant Baso
 tho women workers in South Africa to men’s contribution to global care w
 ork – I will argue in this paper that its analytical focus on the global
  may have limited our investigations into and understanding of more common
 \, localised forms of care.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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