The Value of Care: A Public Scholarly Exchange

FAIN: RZ-292800-23

Duke University (Durham, NC 27705-4677)
Jocelyn H. Olcott (Project Director: November 2022 to present)

Development of an open-access digital resource on the value of care, including a peer-reviewed blog and an open-access working-paper series. (36 months)

The Value of Care explores both how we center care as an ethical value and how we value care as a practice. This grant would support the development of an open-access digital resource emerging from an international, interdisciplinary research network and highlighting innovative but underrepresented perspectives. The project starts from three core principles: 1) a recognition of the inextricability of ecological, social, and cultural care and the importance of examining them within a shared framework 2) valuing these various forms of care entails a recognition of time, effort, and expertise at a variety of scales from the intimate, household and community to the national, regional, and global 3) knowledge production from the global south and underrepresented communities–particularly where people are seen not as autonomous individuals but rather as beings enmeshed in broader webs of care and dependency–often offer more creative and sustainable solutions to the crisis of care.