Offering models of care beyond capitalist constraints
For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justifications. This has led to the deprivation of care to individuals and communities based on capitalist assumptions about what and who can be cared for. Proposals for a Caring Economy takes these assumptions to task. Moving between examples focused on immigration and agriculture, patients and art audiences, green energy transitions and unhoused people, prison abolitionists and clients of domestic violence services, the contributors here argue that we need new ways to conceptualize care and its applications.
Proposals for a Caring Economy articulates an economy that situates care at the forefront; sees the preservation of individual, community, and environmental wellbeing as the primary good; and focuses attention on building a sustainable economy of caring that will radically transform social connections and possibilities.
Contributors: Chelsey R. Carter, Yale U; David McDermott Hughes, Rutgers U; Stephanie Delise Jones, U of California, Riverside; Sameena Mulla, Emory U; Katy Overstreet, Saxo Institute, U of Copenhagen; Michelle Parsons, Northern Arizona U; Adair Rounthwaite, U of Washington; Damien M. Sojoyner, U of California, Irvine; Emily Yates-Doerr, Oregon State U.
Table of Contents
Life Support: An Introduction to Economies of Care
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Eliminate Race-Based Epidemiologies
Chelsey R. Carter
Promote Carbon-Reducing Labor
David McDermott Hughes
Repair Care as a Casualty of Domestic Warfare
Stephanie Delise Jones and Damien M. Sojoyner
Decenter Whiteness in Gender-Based Violence Intervention
Sameena Mulla
Center Care in More-than-Human Agricultural Communities
Katy Overstreet
Extend Care Beyond Institutions and Projects
Michelle Parsons
Build Viewing Publics Through Digital Arts Access
Adair Rounthwaite
Open Borders to Create New Connections to Home and Kin
Emily Yates-Doerr
Contributors
About the Editor
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is author of several books, including American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within, and he is coeditor, with Denielle Elliott, of Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing, both from Minnesota. He is professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.