CALL FOR PAPERS

2025-07-10

Dossier: Critical Perspectives on Care, Gender Equality, and Social Justice

Editors:

Karina Batthyány (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

Amparo Hernández (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the recognition of care as a human right has gained momentum in recent years, driven by feminist movements, international organizations, academia, and growing awareness of its central role in the sustainability of life and gender equity. These actors have shown that the unfair distribution of care work is a core issue in gender inequalities.

Several countries in the region have begun to develop regulatory frameworks and public policies aimed at comprehensive care systems. These systems seek to redistribute care responsibilities—traditionally assigned to women—among the state, the market, families, and the community, thereby promoting greater equality and social justice. However, the institutionalization of care has not followed a linear trajectory across countries, and there are ongoing tensions around the effective incorporation of a feminist perspective in the proposals under discussion or implementation.

This dossier aims to contribute to the theoretical debate on care in the region and its construction as a public policy issue, centering the contributions of feminist academia in dialogue with government actors and civil society.

It addresses both theoretical and political challenges, as well as the centrality of care as labor and its impact on the lives of women who provide care—both paid and unpaid. The dossier also aims to delve into population-specific challenges regarding care policies and revisits the need to strengthen the notion of social co-responsibility from a transformative and redistributive approach.

Key themes:

  • The recognition of care as a human right

  • Theoretical and political debates on care as labor

  • Care policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: current situation

  • Who provides care and who requires it?

  • Care through a feminist lens: tensions, recognition, and transformations

  • Emerging dimensions in care studies

The contributions must respect the magazine's approach and the publication guidelines. The editorial line of the dossier prioritizes a perspective centered on the Latin American and Caribbean region. The dossier will be published in issue No. 9 of the journal, in December 2025.

Submission deadline: October 1, 2025.