The Transforming Care Conferences Symposia are parallel sessions focussing on a particular and topical theme.
Each Symposium is organized by a Symposium Chair and includes up to four identified paper authors who will present their papers during the session. One or more Discussants will comment on the papers.
2023 Symposia:
- The political economy of care for children and older adults in times of crisis
- Breaking boundaries: international accounts from innovative ‘centres of excellence’ in social care
- Possibilities for care convoys: imaginative and diverse conversations
- Negotiating care in the context of multiple commitments: Combining paid work and informal care across the life span
- Socio-economic inequality in long term care and wellbeing: an overview of the findings of the IN-CARE project
- Young people’s gendered caring: crossing boundaries, shaping futures
- Blurring the boundaries of care: community-based public policies, social economy and commoning care practices. Insights from the Spanish case
- Gender Equality and Unpaid Care in the Pandemic: Opportunities for Transformation
- Crisis of the Later Life Care: Cases from Nordic Welfare States
- Institutional Boundaries and Wages in Care Employment
- Transnational families in Europe: caring during the time of ‘crisis’ of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
Meet the Author Session
Family Care of Older Persons in Southern Africa: ‘Care Crisis’ or ‘Care in contexts of crises’?
Associate Professor Elena Moore, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, South Africa