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.
What People Are Saying
“Why do we live in a world that rewards the uncaring, the care-free and the care-less? How long can we tolerate such a state? Not long according to this vital, urgent and compelling book about why radical change is needed. The manifesto not only critiques uncaring governments and corporations, but also offers an alternative. There is one and we desperately need it.” Bev Skeggs, Distinguished Professor, Lancaster Univeristy
“This manifesto is a call to action for global progressives. The Care Collective shows the ‘systemic carelessness’ of existing political, economic, and kinship orders are broken both for humans and the planet. They demonstrate that capacious care offers a practical and already existing starting point for change on all levels.” Joan Tronto, author of Caring Democracy
“An inspiring and revolutionary call for an economy and society based on caring for the earth and each other … rings with both freshness and familiarity, moral clarity and political necessity. It’s wonderful.” Avi Lewis, The Leap
“Rais[es] fundamental questions about care and caring in the contemporary context.” Morning Star
“Robustly analytical … the current crisis has forced the always urgent issue of care into the spotlight.” Observer