The Care Manifesto (The Care Collective)

Wednesday 25^th November 3-4pm (via zoom)

For joining details, contact Martin O'Shaughnessy (martin.oshaughnessy@ntu.ac.uk ) 

 

ALL WELCOME!

 

In this talk The Care Collective discuss their recently published book The Care Manifesto (Verso 2020): 

"We lay out a radical vision for a truly caring world, demanding that we put care at the very heart of our lives and our politics. In the wake of COVID-19, the need to acknowledge our mutual interdependence and vulnerabilities is more urgent than ever. Care must be valued and shared, no longer tolerated as an exploited form of labour, shouldered mainly by women and the poor. Rejecting the extensive carelessness so evident today, we lay out our model of ‘universal care’, which calls for inventive forms of collective care at every scale of life. We propose expanding kinships through 'promiscuous care' and building communities strengthened by co-operative and public ownership. We show how genuine care involves reinvigorating welfare states, creating alternatives to capitalist markets and caring across borders. The Manifesto, in short, imagines a world in which care is everywhere—from our most intimate connections to our relationship with the planet itself."

 

The Care Collective 

Andreas Chatzidakis is Professor of Marketing and Consumer Ethics at the School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway University of London. His works include the Consuming Modern Slavery report (2018) and Ethics and Morality in Consumption(2016) 

 

Dr Jamie Hakim worked at Attitude magazine from 2003 and is now Lecturer in Media Studies at UEA. He is Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project 'Digital Intimacies’, partnered with the Terrance Higgins Trust, and author of Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture (2019) 

 

Jo Littler is a Professor in the Sociology Department and is Director of the Gender and Sexualities Research Centre at City, University of London, UK.  Her books include Against Meritocracy (2018) Radical Consumption?  (2008) and with Roshi Naidoo The Politics of Heritage: The legacies of ‘race’' (2005).  

 

Dr Catherine Rottenberg is Associate Professor in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her books include The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018), Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side (2014), and Performing Americanness(2008). 

 

Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology & Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her many books include Beyond the Fragments (1980) What is to be done about the family?(1983) Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology, Politics (1999) Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men (2007) Straight Sex(1994) Making Trouble (2007) and Out of Time (2013).