Sylvia Chant Annual Lecture | Geographies of home and care: a conversation across feminist scholarship
This year’s Sylvia Chant Lecture brings together Linda McDowell, Sarah Marie Hall and Shirin Rai to reflect on the themes of Home and Care.
Drawing on their influential bodies of work, this conversation will discuss how these concepts have been theorised and researched over time, where debates currently stand, and where new directions might take us.
Meet our speakers and chair
Sarah Marie Hall is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. Her research in geographical feminist political economy has examined family life and economic change; ethics, care and consumption, and feminist praxis. She is the author of Everyday life in austerity: family, friends and intimate relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Linda McDowell is Professor Emerita in Human Geography at St John’s College, University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy and a CBE (for services to Geography and Higher Education, 2016). A pioneer in the field of the feminist geography, Linda has examined the relationships between economic restructuring, labour market change, and age, class, ethnicity and gender in the UK. The author of multiple works, her most recent book is Migrant women’s voices talking about life and work in the UK since 1945 (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Shirin Rai is Distinguished Research Professor of Politics and International Relations and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working on gender, governance and development, and gender and political institutions. Her most recent book is Performing representation: women members in the Indian parliament (OUP, 2019).
Laura Antona is Assistant Professor of Human Geography. She is a feminist geographer whose work examines migration, domesticity, labour, home, and care. She is currently writing a book that examines the legacy of forced migrant removal in Southeast Asia.
More about this event
The Department of Geography and Environment is a centre of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.
The Sylvia Chant Lecture Series honours the life, work, and legacy of Professor Sylvia Chant (1960–2019), a pioneering scholar of Development Geography and a global authority in Gender and Development.
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