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October 2020

THE CARE MANIFESTO: THE POLITICS OF INTERDEPENDENCE

Another title that feels urgent for now, a book published in the wake of the first spike of Covid 19  that demands a new perspective on care and interdependence.  Lynne Segal, Author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy and others put care at the centre of things in this pandemic. As the second wave comes and poverty and degradation become potentially the primary area of concern, we must now move to politics that raises such urgent questions and move away from the neoliberalist ideals of self and competition and rather foreground the human and social potential of the subject rather than the economic. 

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?

The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care--childcare, healthcare, elder care--to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way.

The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors want to reimagine the role of care in our everyday lives, making it the organising principle in every dimension and at every scale of life. We are all dependent on each other, and only by nurturing these interdependencies can we cultivate a world in which each and every one of us can not only live but thrive.

The Care Manifesto demands that we must put care at the heart of the state and the economy. A caring government must promote collective joy, not the satisfaction of individual desire. This means the transformation of how we organise work through co-operatives, localism and nationalisation. It proposes the expansion of our understanding of kinship for a more 'promiscuous care'. It calls for caring places through the reclamation of public space, to make a more convivial city. It sets out an agenda for the environment, most urgent of all, putting care at the centre of our relationship to the natural world.