From Crisis to a New Politics of Care
Channel: Common Notions
Date: 2021-04-13

Covid-19 has shone all too bright a light onto the problems that beset health and social care. Yet, even before the pandemic, it was clear our health and well-being was far from guaranteed. Years of neoliberal restructuring, austerity measures, the pursuit of profit as well as structural racism have created devastating vulnerabilities and entrenched profound inequalities in the access to care that go hand in hand with a systemic devaluation of the work of caring. 

Join Emma Dowling, author of The Care Crisis, Gregg Gonsalves and Amy Kapczynski, contributors to the Boston Review’s The Politics of Care: From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter, to discuss the causes and consequences of the deepening care crisis in the US and the UK and the possibilities for establishing a new politics of care and for building new infrastructures of care that are rooted in social solidarity and well-being for all.