Beverley Mullings: "Informality, Precarity and the Coloniality of Gendered Labour in the Caribbean"
Mar 22, 2023 12:00 pm
Room 306 Coble Hall
- Sponsor
- Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Speaker
- Beverley Mullings, Professor of Black Economic Geographies, University of Toronto
- Registration
- https://go.illinois.edu/MullingsTalk
- Contact
- Anita Kaiser
- arkaiser@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-333-6221
- Views
- 141
- Originating Calendar
- Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Lunch provided for in-person attendees with registration by March 21.
Convergences in the kinds of low waged, unpredictable and dangerous jobs that working people worldwide increasingly face, are rendering historical geo-economic distinctions between informality and precarity obsolete. Yet, divisions that associate informality with disorganization, chaos and criminality, still structure how economies in the Global South, and women's work within them are routinely represented.