Social Care: Maintaining each other. A joint event with The Maintainers in our essential work series
Channel: Maintain
Date: 2020-08-13

An online event held on 6 August 2020, in partnership with The Maintainers in the US. 

Social Care: Maintaining Each Other focuses on social care and what maintainers can learn from more formal care relationships. We explore various dimensions of social care - such as paid and unpaid assistance for children, adults, and the elderly. We look at how these relationships are valued and measured (or if they can be measured at all), and if the language and structures we use for this essential activity are useful or obstructive. With so much maintenance activity falling outside of market-based interactions, how can we classify this essential human experience, of caregiving and being cared for?

This webinar episode is part of a virtual event series on society’s maintainers and their critical role in the health and functioning of our world. The webinar is jointly hosted by the Festival of Maintenance and The Maintainers.