The Care Manifesto

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The Politics of Interdependence

By The Care Collective

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The Care Manifesto centres care in the critical discussions of today's crises, covering areas from intimate care like childcare and elder care to the care of our natural environment. It envisions a world where care is the foundational principle across all aspects of life, emphasising our interdependence and the need to nurture it. The book advocates for a state and economy organised around care—promoting collective wellbeing over individual desires, transforming work structures, expanding notions of kinship, reclaiming public spaces, and prioritising environmental stewardship.
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This book is suited for educators, policymakers, activists, and readers interested in social justice, environmental care, and progressive political and economic reform.

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

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

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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.

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Praised as a vital and compelling call for radical change, the manifesto critiques the failures of uncaring governments and corporations while offering a practical alternative rooted in "systemic care." Esteemed voices highlight its inspiring and revolutionary vision for a society and economy founded on care for people and the planet, describing it as both urgent and morally clear. Morning Star recognises it for raising fundamental questions about the nature of care in today's world.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781839760969

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 September 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 104g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

The Care Collective was formed in 2017, originally as a London-based reading group aiming to understand and address the multiple and extreme crises of care. Each coming from a different discipline, we have been active both collectively and individually in diverse personal, academic and political contexts. Members include: Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Jo Littler, Catherine Rottenberg, and Lynne Segal.