Care-Centered Politics by Robert Gottlieb

Care-Centered Politics by Robert Gottlieb

Why a care economy and care-centered politics can influence and reorient such issues as health, the environment, climate, race, inequality, gender, and immigration.

This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitablecare-centered 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-centered politics, we can build an ethics of care and a society of cooperation, sharing, and solidarity.

Arguing that care is a form of labor, 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-centered 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.

Former Alfred A. Knopf Editor-in-Chief Robert Gottlieb The New Yorker and Knopf He is the New York Observer's dance critic and the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Creator. He has previously edited Reading Jazz, Reading Lyrics (with Robert Kimball), the Everyman's Library version of Rudyard Kipling's Collected Tales, and John Cheever's Journals.

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ISBN 13	9780262543750
ISBN 10	0262543753
Title	Care-Centered Politics
Author	Robert Gottlieb
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2022-08-02
Number of pages	240
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