I was very fortunate to be invited to join Women’s Economic League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Sarajevo in June 2016 for a workshop to discuss a political economy perspective on WILPF’s proposed reparations program for survivors of the Bosnian war. And I also joined the solidarity [...]
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It’s 2016 and we are moving backwards on work, care and family policies. Governments focused on balanced budgets rather than balanced lives have stymied support for workers with caring responsibilities – mostly women. This is at a time of increased global attention on gender, [...]
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Please, no scented candles or toasters for Elizabeth Hill this Mother’s Day. What she really wants — what all Australian mothers want — is better paid parental leave, affordable childcare and a ramp at her local train station.
Last Sunday was my 15th Mother’s [...]
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From shock absorbers to resilient economic subjects
Widespread feminist research following the 1997 financial crisis in Asia pointed to the gendered origins and impacts of the crisis on women. These studies point to how women and their households played a role as financial risk and [...]
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Being both a Canadian and a feminist, I cannot help feeling just a little bit proud every time Justin Trudeau, Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister, proclaims that he is a feminist. When asked about his reasons for appointing a cabinet that was 50% women, Trudeau infamously responded: [...]
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Yulia Maleta (University of Sydney), 'Advocating an Ecofeminist Sociopolitical Economic Model'
This is the fourth seminar in the [...]
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Europe’s post-2008 landscape has obscured from view both the gendered, authoritarian nature of crisis responses and the genesis of political crises in the greater burdens placed on households.
My chapter with Stefanie Wöhl in the Scandalous Economics volume focuses on the role of the [...]
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As outlined in this series of blogs, Scandalous Economics is a collection of essays that explores “how scandals – and scandalous uses of and/or neglect of gender – have helped narrate the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) into political oblivion”, as Aida Hozić and Jacqui True outline in [...]
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