Prattes, Riikka. Beyond privilege: Narrating diverse stories of caring masculinities’ Blog post in Nancy Folbre’s Care Talk

Prattes, Riikka, Roberts, Steven and Elliott, Karla. ‘In the face of disparity, do we need a “NDIS for aged care”?’ Monash lens

Peer-reviewed articles

Prattes, Riikka and Myong, Lene (2025). Colonial care in the Nordics: Child removal and the politics of disappearance, NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, special issue: Race, racialization, and reproduction in the Nordic context (open access)

Prattes, Riikka, Roberts, Steven and Elliott, Karla (2025). 'like in every other facet of life, I am privileged to be a man': Political subjectivities of young men working in the Australian care sector, YOUNG: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, special issue: Young masculinities and political subjectivities (open access)

Prattes, Riikka (2024). Knowing to care/caring to know: Attentiveness and responsiveness in privileged men’s practices of social reproduction, Azimuth: Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age, special issue: Critical care

Roberts, Steven and Prattes, Riikka (2023). Caring masculinities in theory and practice: Reiterating the relevance and clarifying the capaciousness of the concept, Sociological Research Online (open access)

Prattes, Riikka (2023). Colonial care: Care in the service of whiteness, Essays in Philosophy 24(1-2): 41-57, special issue: Care ethics otherwise 

Prattes, Riikka (2022). Caring masculinities and race: On racialized workers and 'new fathers', Men and Masculinities 25(5): 721–742 

Prattes, Riikka (2020). 'I don’t clean up after myself': Epistemic ignorance, responsibility, and the politics of the outsourcing of domestic cleaning, Feminist Theory 21(1): 25-45 

Book chapters

Prattes, Riikka (2024). Learning through care: Decentering an epistemology of domination to theorize caring men at the 'center'. In Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald and Fiona Robinson (eds). Decentering epistemologies and challenging privilege: Critical care ethics perspectives. Rutgers University Press 

Prattes, Riikka (2018). Der migrantische Hausarbeiter als 'Individuum': Männliche Migranten in haushaltsnahen Dienstleistungsberufen. (Engl: Male domestic workers and the 'individual': Migrant men and paid domestic work). In Susanne Hochreiter and Silvia Stoller (eds.) Mann, Männer, Männlichkeiten. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Vienna: Praesens Verlag 

Books

Prattes, Riikka. Bodies of knowledge: Masculinities, epistemologies, and domestic work (in preparation)

Prattes, Riikka (2011). Junge Männer und Feminismus. Ein sozialanthropologischer Blick auf Männlichkeitskonstruktionen im Kontext Österreichs. (Engl: Young men and feminism. A social anthropological view on the construction of masculinities in the Austrian context). Wiesbaden: VS Publishing