Podcast, 39 mins
New Thinking: Human Costs of Caring w/ Shirin Rai
26 Feb 2025 10:30
What are the human costs of caring labour? Where does this labour take place, who takes it on and how can we best study it?
Shirin M. Rai is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies SOAS, University of London. Dr Jayanthi Lingham is a Research Associate at the Centre for Care. They join Dr Remi Edwards to discuss Rai's recent book Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring.
Works referenced:
Lingham & Johnston 2024
Budlender, 2010
Butler & Hoskyns, 2017
Cooper, 2014
Dowling, 2021
Elson, 1979
Federici, 1975
Fraser, 2016
Hirway & Jose, 2011
Katz, 2001
Mezzadri, 2022
Rai, Hoskyns & Thomas, 2014
Rai & True, 2020
Stevano et al, 2019
Bhattacharya, 2017
Waring, 1988
Credits
- Chris Saltmarsh, Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Sheffield
- Remi Edwards, Research and Impact Associate at SPERI
- Frank Maracchione, PhD Research Student at the University of Sheffield
- Emma Mahoney, PhD Candidate at the University of Sheffield
- Dillon Wamsley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SPERI
- Andrew Hindmoor, Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and Co-Director at SPERI
- Shirin M. Rai , Research Professor at the University of London
