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Beverley Mullings: "Informality, Precarity and the Coloniality of Gendered Labour in the Caribbean"

Mar 22, 2023   12:00 pm  
Room 306 Coble Hall
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Lecture
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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
E-Mail
arkaiser@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-6221
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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. 

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