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<p>Dear Caro,</p>
<p>many thanks for sharing this timely intervention!! It makes it
very clear that discussions around slow scholarship, gender
inequality and care work need to be taken even more seriously
since the corona measures started. I stumbled over this passage,
though:</p>
<p>"Having a child should no longer be penalized neither in academia
(see motherhood penalty) nor society (see increased risk of
mothers for poverty) because our children will be your future
students and our nations’ future citizens. Our children are not a
private issue but 'system relevant' to ensure the future of
education and society."</p>
<p>While I agree with your call for societal recognition - in the
sense of structural change - of care and reproductive
responsibilities, the formulations "our nations' future citizens"
and "to ensure the future of education and society" seem in danger
of catering to femonationalist argumenations. They suggest that
this is chiefly about 'our nations' (rather than, say global
society) and that these nations necessarily reproduce themselves
endogenously (rather than by e.g. through migration). Drawing on
Haraway ("<i>Make kin not kids</i>") or Queer Studies (Edelman: <i>No
Future</i>), we could more fundamentally interrogate this
association of reproduction and future. (Haraway goes as far as
calling attention to how tying futurity to (biological)
reproduction eclipses the problem of humans overcrowing this
planet - certainly a highly controversial move - and I'm aware
that you're not necessarily talking about biological reproduction
here..) But at any rate, there is a variety of feminist and queer
imaginations of a desired future, and associating reproduction,
the nation and the future through making and raising kids seems in
need of some further interrogation - also in terms of the kinds of
families, homes, living arrangements etc we create, as these also
lead to a reproduction of gendered inequalities.. <br>
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<p>This is not at all to dismiss the claims you are making - and I'm
aware that your understanding of reproduction (and the nation) is
more nuanced than it might appear in this text. I also agree that
right now, it is import to affirm care work as 'system relevant' -
and as someone without current care responsibilities, I am aware
of the privileges this involves. In this sense, I mean this as
'solidarische Kritik' that calls attention to a potential
argumentative trap in your text - which might need some
clarification, or to be discussed more in-depth another time and
place..<br>
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<p>Warm best wishes,</p>
<p>jan</p>
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<div class="">I apologise for the self-promotion but as these are
exceptional times and the cause is close to my heart, I would
like to draw your attention to a blogpost, <font class=""
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(all University of Bern) have written on </font><a
href="https://www.gendercampus.ch/de/blog/post/the-new-normal-the-care-giving-academic/"
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face="Calibri, sans-serif"> about the results of a survey in
the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern, which
revealed the crisis’ uneven care responsibilities. While
acknowledging these unequal effects, our blog calls for
considering the current crisis as an opportunity to
constituting a new academic norm/ality: The care-giving
academic. We hope that collectively we succeed in fighting
against the time pressures of the neoliberal academy and for
better working conditions at Swiss universities. We need time
to care - for our society, our loved ones, our children and
ourselves - also as researchers and professors! Let’s not
return to the old normal but collectively create new norms! </font></div>
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<div class=""><font class="" face="Calibri, sans-serif">Please
feel free to share, discuss and start organising resistance! </font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" face="Calibri, sans-serif">Best
wishes, </font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" face="Calibri, sans-serif">Carolin </font></div>
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