Care-Centered Politics From the Home to the Planet

This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centred world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and deep inequalities have all underscored the centrality of care in our lives. Yet care work is, for the most part, undervalued and exploited. In this book, Robert Gottlieb examines how a care economy and care politics can influence and remake health, climate, and environmental policy, as well as the institutions and practices of daily life. He shows how, through this care-centred politics, we can build an ethics of care and a society of cooperation, sharing, and solidarity. Arguing that care is a form of labour, Gottlieb expands the ways we think about home care, child care, elder care, and other care relationships. He links them to the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, immigration, and the militarization of daily life. He also provides perspective on the events of 2020 and 2021 (including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and movements calling attention to racism and inequality) as they relate to a care politics. Care, says Gottlieb, must be universal-whether healthcare for all, care for the earth, care at work, or care for the household, shared equally by men and women. Care-centred politics is about strategic and structural reforms that imply radical and revolutionary change. Gottlieb offers a practical, mindful, yet also utopian, politics of daily life.

ISBN:	9780262543750
Publisher:	The MIT Press
Imprint:	The MIT Press
Published date:	22 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	303.4
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	240
Weight:	302g
Height:	152mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	24mm

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