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Feminist political economy of war and care in Ukraine
With co-authors, I study the wartime care economy: how care work is organised, valued and redistributed when a country is at war. Paid and unpaid care, carried disproportionately by women, appears here not as a private matter but as a structural pillar of survival and reconstruction - which ties it directly to gender inequality, labour and the capacity of the state.
A companion study extends the same framework to everyday violence and survival: how displacement, loss of livelihood and new dependencies reshape households and communities. The work is part of the project “Caring to Survive, Surviving to Care: Gendered survival practices, social reproduction and circuits of violence in Ukraine” (2024–2027) at the Gender Centre of the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Key themes
Care and care work
Gender inequality and labour
Survival and reconstruction