Project description DEENESFRITPL Knowledge production within an international organisation It has been more than 10 years since the adoption of the historic International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention (C189) on decent work for domestic workers. Globally, 35 countries have ratified C189. The number includes only 8 EU Member States. In this context, the EU-funded KnowingDOM project will investigate the low ratification rate and how it impacts the situation of domestic workers worldwide. ILO estimates there are 67 million domestic workers across the world. The project will examine how various actors engage with an international institution in making knowledge claims about domestic work. The findings will also shed light on how the ILO’s norm-setting activities diffuse to and from a regional organisation – the European Union. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective This project will investigate how knowledge production takes place within the context of an international organization (IO) – the International Labour Organization (ILO). It will look into how what we know about domestic work has developed in the context of the establishment of the ILO’s Convention on Domestic Work (C189). The latter is a landmark global treaty that seeks to set employment standards and norms, for domestic workers. To date, C189 has only been ratified by 33 countries. The low ratification rate belies the demand for this kind of worker worldwide. This is an indicator of a ‘global care deficit’ and ‘crisis of social reproduction.’ This demand will not only increase in volume but also scope as the global population continues to age. The increasing complexity of these mobilities demand collective action and provision of global public goods. This project will examine how various actors engage with an international institution in making knowledge claims about domestic work. It will illustrate the contingency of these claims, to show that the process by which knowledge about domestic work is created is highly contentious - as actors compete over definition of terms, scope, jurisdiction, etc. By investigating how ‘science’, or the authoritative production of knowledge claims, informs politics and vice versa, this project aims to illustrate what Sheila Jasanoff calls civic epistemology: “the institutionalized practices by which members of a given society test and deploy knowledge claims used as a basis for making collective choices.” This project draws from the sociality of knowledge production in feminist interventions in science and technology studies that attend to different sources of epistemic authority, including voices ‘from below.’ The project will proceed in two stages: an analysis of the run-up to C189’s adoption and an investigation of how the ILO’s norm-setting activities diffuse to and from a regional organisation – the European Union. Fields of science social sciencessociologygovernancesocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentsocial scienceslawhuman rightsinternational protection of human rightssocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicspolitical economy Programme(s) HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 Call for proposal HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit Grant Coordinator UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA Net EU contribution € 188 590,08 Address Dorsoduro 3246 30123 Venezia Italy See on map Region Nord-Est Veneto Venezia Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window EU contribution No data
