Gestor This November several meetings will be held at the University of the Balearic Islands that emphasize gender relations and human rights, among which we highlight two. On the one hand, between November 4 and 17, six women human rights defenders from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Argentina and Spain are expected to stay in Mallorca, as … Read more
This year’s edition of Time Use Week will be held from October 21-25 in Barcelona and throughout Catalonia, under the title “Advancing the right to time for everyone”. Time Use Week 2024 is co-organized by the Government of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Barcelona Provincial Council and the Time Use Initiative. Time Use … Read more
On October 8 and 10, Fem Infància has held in Es Mercadal (Menorca) a workshop that has become a reflective space to think about care and social bonds from a critical and feminist perspective, from the idea of “precarious life” by Judith Butler. The workshop opened on October 8 with a talk around the ideas … Read more
The arrival of summer in the Balearic Islands is accompanied by a massive arrival of tourists who need services; an arrival that, in 2024, rubs the 4 million people, if we count only until the month of May. Many people work in these services, among them the floor maids, known as Kellys, dedicated to the … Read more
From June 26 to 29, 2024 the XV Spanish Congress of Sociology took place in Seville under the slogan: #SociologíaParaLaSociedadDigital (#SociologyForTheDigitalSociety). The XV Spanish Congress of Sociology has reached the attendance figure of almost 1,600 people analyzing the necessary tools so that the digital society is not thrown into a world that is not real. … Read more
Care has been one of the main topics of discussion and advocacy throughout the year in the Basque Country. On November 30 last year, a feminist general strike was held for the first time in the South of the Basque Country to demand the collective right to care, but this concept has yet to be … Read more
In 2022, the popular initiative Hernani Burujabe launched the “Auzozaintza” program. The initiative was launched with the aim of helping elderly people who find themselves in a situation of “fragile, unchosen loneliness” and has already been extended to several neighborhoods in Hernani. The mayor, Xabier Lertxundi, has pointed out that the main objective of “auzozaintza” … Read more
Last Wednesday, June 12, Màrius Domínguez i Amorós, Director of the Copolis Research Group “Well-being, Community and Social Control”, presented on the panel “Challenges and policies towards the care society” at the LASA 2024 Congress “Reaction and Resistance: Imagining possible futures in the Americas” (June 12 – 15, 2024, Bogota – Colombia). You can consult … Read more
The III Workshop RESCUPAN – The social reorganization of care in Pandemic: Welfare, Community and Gender, was held on May 30-31, 2024 at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Donostia, Euskal Herria. Project members from the teams of the Universitat de Barcelona, the Universitat de les Illes Balears, the Universitat de València and … Read more
The third RESCUPAN Workshop will take place on May 30 and 31. This time it will be held at the Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology of the UPV/EHU. We will have a round table on “Experiences and proposals for transformation and subversion of care”, with the participation of a worker of the care cooperative … Read more