The Politics of Care - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1839763094 ISBN 13 : 9781839763090

Editeur : Verso Books, 2020

Synopsis

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review.

From the COVID-19 pandemic to uprisings over police brutality, we are living in the greatest social crisis of a generation. But the roots of these latest emergencies stretch back decades. At their core is a politics of death: a brutal neoliberal ideology that combines deep structural racism with a relentless assault on social welfare. Its results are the failing economic and public health systems we confront today--those that benefit the few and put the most vulnerable in harm's way.

Contributors to this volume not only protest these neoliberal roots of our present catastrophe, but they insist there is only one way forward: a new kind of politics--a politics of care--that centers people's basic needs and connections to fellow citizens, the global community, and the natural world. Imagining a world that promotes the health and well-being of all, they draw on different backgrounds--from public health to philosophy, history to economics, literature to activism--as well as the example of other countries and the past, from the AIDS activist group ACT-UP to the Black radical tradition. Together they point to a future, as Simon Waxman writes, where 'no one is disposable.'

CONTRIBUTORS
Robin D. G. Kelley, Gregg Gonsalves and Amy Kapczynski, Walter Johnson, Anne L. Alstott, Melvin Rogers, Amy Hoffman, Sunaura Taylor, Vafa Ghazavi, Adele Lebano, Paul Hockenos, Paul Katz and Leandro Ferreira, Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Colin Gordon, Jason Q. Purnell, Jamala Rogers, Dan Berger, Julie Kohler, Manoj Dias-Abey, Simon Waxman, Farah Griffin.

A co-publication between Boston Review and Verso Books.

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À propos de l'auteur

Boston Review is an independent and nonprofit public space for robust discussion of ideas and culture. Animated by hope and committed to equality, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1839763094
• ISBN 13: 9781839763090
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Review Boston
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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