Caring for life —Kelly Dombroski seminar with InfUr-

Abstract: Kelly will speak to her recent book, Caring for life. It tells the story of shifting hygiene assemblages in Minority and Majority World urban contexts, laying out the transformative possibilities of informal care practices for collective, widespread change.

Kelly Dombroski is an Associate Professor in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. She studies social, environmental and economic change in the Asia-Pacific region using feminist, postdevelopment and diverse economies approaches. She holds a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship titled Transitioning to caring economies through transformative community investment, is a fellow of the New Zealand Geographical Society, and a member of the Community Economies Institute. She is author of Caring for Life: A postdevelopment politics of infant hygiene (UMP, 2024), and co-editor of The Handbook of Diverse Economies (Edward Elgar, 2020), and Introducing Human Geographies 4th Edition (Routledge, 2024). She has four children and lives in Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand.