Ringvorlesung ZEITFRAGEN: Care is more than a tally sheet: an ecological care ethics approach to clock time and relational time

Over the past half-century, time-use studies have become a leading method for researching unpaid care work, especially in the multidisciplinary field of gender divisions of household work and care and in feminist international studies on counting and accounting for women’s unpaid work. Although conceptual and methodological refinements in time-use methods are increasing, persistent challenges remain with conceptualizing and measuring care work and responsibilities. Andrea Doucet’s lecture on clock time and relational time is rooted in an ecological care ethics approach that centers 3Rs (relationalities, responsiveness, and responsibilities). She aims to facilitate a discussion about the need for pragmatic ‘both/and’ thinking in how we re-imagine, conceptualize, measure, and make knowledges about care-time intra-actions.

Andrea Doucet is a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care and Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University, an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Victoria and Carleton University, and Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL). Her most recent book is an edited collection entitled Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly: The Legacies of Lorraine Code (SUNY, 2021). She is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Reimagining Care/Work Policies partnership program and Co-Coordinator of the International Network of Leave Policies and Research. Email: adoucet@brocku.ca

Twitter/X: @andreadoucet

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