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The Subversive Politics of Care

Civil Society
Gender
Social Justice
Social Movements
Welfare State
Women
Race
Austerity
P096
Akwugo Emejulu
University of Warwick

Building: Anthropole, Floor: 3, Room: 3148

Saturday 12:45 - 14:30 CEST (10/06/2017)

Abstract

The on-going economic crisis and austerity measures are proving disastrous for women in Europe. Welfare states across the continent are being radically transformed through unprecedented reductions to social welfare service provision, privatisations and/or the elimination of these services altogether. The roll back of the welfare state has profound class and racialized impacts on different kinds of women as workers and carers. As the feminised caring jobs of the welfare state (teachers, social workers, nurses, home-helps ) are cut, the social safety net is also being fatally weakened. Austerity represents the re-privatisation of caring and care work that threatens women’s already precarious positionings and claims to European public spaces. In this panel, we explore how different kinds of feminist activists are using the material and affective labour of caring and care work as a political practice and a form of political agency to organise and mobilise for racial and gender justice. We will examine how the nature of caring is changing under austerity and how caring can be harnessed by feminist actors as a subversive public politics for securing and advancing social citizenship rights.

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