Projektdetaljer

Beskrivelse

Emily Kenway (Oct. 25, 2021) wrote in The Guardian “As the world gets hotter and consequently more dangerous – we are going to need to care for each other more than ever before… We need a care-centred approach to meet the demands of a future that looks very different to our past”.

This sentiment poignantly reflects the tenuous relationship between our planet’s rapid climate change and the need to (re)consider both the people who work and live upon it everyday, and the ways we understand, classify, support, and ultimately recognize such work(ers) as valuable across specific contexts and geographic regions.

Our project aims to engage in a mixed method study of (1) historical trajectories of environmental care work(ers) in various international contexts – e.g., aid organizations, businesses, advocacy groups, diverse media, and/or municipal/community-centered initiatives, and (2) the ways that people who identify as engaging in such environmental care work understand their work in similar and different ways across such contexts.

The project is designed to examine specific environmental care work(er) frameworks to reveal shared language(s) of value used by both workers themselves and those who support them, such that our findings can be used to inform larger and more expansive examinations of environmental care work(ers) across the globe.

The knowledge produced in this pilot study can provide insight into efforts to collectively organize existing environmental care work(ers) such that they can more easily collaborate across contexts, educational programming focused on producing future environmental care workers, and support efforts aimed at preventing burnout, stress and other obstacles those in care-related fields might face across their careers. Our aim is for the evolving field of environmental care work(ers) to be more clearly recognized as essential for proteching our collective future on this planet.
StatusAfsluttet
Effektiv start/slut dato23/06/202331/08/2024

Finansiering

  • Green Societies: 140.000,00 kr.

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