| On this page, you can read about the four international seminars that have been held in relation to Strand 4 of the CAVA Research Project.
The fourth International Seminar was held on 1-2 November 2002. To read a list of participants, please click here. The following papers were presented, and are available to read here on the site. Please note that these are DRAFT papers, and quotations should NOT be taken from them. Thank you. "Collective
Interventions on the Terrain of Care and Intimacy: The CAVA Project" "Shifting
Patterns of Representation: 'Children', 'Families', 'Women'" "Collective
Organising and Claim-making on Mothering / Parenting in 'Norden':
Blurring the Boundaries between the 'Inside' and the 'Outside'" "Domesticating
Masculinity and Masculinizing Domesticity in Contemporary US Fatherhood
Politics"
The ESRC Research Project for Care, Values and the Future of Welfare held its third International Seminar over one weekend in January 2002. The following papers were presented, and are available to read here on the site. Please note that these are DRAFT papers, and quotations should NOT be taken from them. Thank you. "Friendship
and Non-Conventional Partnership: the CAVA Project" "Unpacking
Friendships in Personal Communities" "Intimacy
and a New Postmoral Sentimental Order?" "Living
Apart Together - One Couple, Two Homes" "Fellow
Families? Gay Male Intimacies and Kinship in a Global Metropolis" "Care,
Intimacy and Partnering among Gay Men"
The ESRC Research Project for Care, Values and the Future of Welfare held its second International Seminar over one weekend in September 2001. The following papers were presented, and are available to read here on the site. Please note that these are DRAFT papers, and quotations should NOT be taken from them. Thank you. "Divorcing
Families: The Economic Realities" "Heads
or Tails, There Are No Real Winners. An Australina Perspective of
Outcomes for Contact or Residential Single Fathers" "Political,
Scientific and Everyday Doscourses on the Family in Post-Socialist
Hungary" "What
Helps, What Hurts? Children's Experiences of Parental Divorce in
Norway" "Divorce
and the Increasingly Fluid Boundaries of Childhood in The Netherlands" "Changing
Families, Changing Childhoods: Separation, Divorce and Family Life
in Ireland" "Rethinking
Assumptions About Children's Competence to Participate in Family
Decision-Making After Parental Separation"
Strand 4 of CAVA is a series of international seminars. The first of these was held on January 19th to 21st 2001. The subject was "New Divisions of Labour", in particular the question of what can best replace the traditional male breadwinner / female homemaker-carer family mode. Hilary Land (University of Bristol) started with the confused British situation, where moves towards and adult worker model misunderstand the meanings of both 'care' and 'work'. Ulla Bjornberg's (Gothenberg University) paper on Swedish family policy provided an immediate contrast, although she concluded that long, paid parental leave was more of a far-sighted welfare policy for children that an effective policy for promoting gender equality. Equally startling - if in different direction - was the paper from Ann Orloff (North-western University), who discussed the impact of 'race', gender and class relations on welfare reform in the USA. Janneke Plantenga (Utrecht University) introduced and alternative to both extremes - Dutch 'polder model' where both men and women are seen as equally involved in unpaid care and part-time paid work. In practice, however, this has created lower incomes for women, with continuing dependence on male partner. Continuing on the theme of gendered dependency, Anita Nyberg (Swedish Working Life Institute) showed how family reforms in Sweden had allowed women to become more economically independent of men, and given them the capacity to form and maintain autonomous households, both through paid work and by transfers from the welfare state. Finally, Linda Hancock (Melbourne University) charted how the neo-liberal restructuring of the post-war Australian settlement had changed relationships between paid work, welfare and families. The papers from CAVA's first International Seminar will be published in early 2002 in Critical Social Policy Vol 22 (1).
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