About the workshop:
The current covid-pandemic shows that care ( as in medical care, caring for children, housework, elderly care etc.) is in the center of all life and that we all do depend on it through our life. But at the same time, we (in a western dominanted globalized world) experience that governments don't put care first, but economic profit. As some might think applause might be enough to show valuation to the care sector, we want to go further.
In our future workshop we want to create real, utopian ideas of how unremunareted and remunerated would be organized in a care-centered world and how our actions (in activism) today can contribute to this change.
About the trainers: Lisa Höfer, Ann-Christin Kleinert, Malou Windeler
I am convinced that knowledge and continious reflection of ones position in society and its dominant structures are crucial for socio-ecological change and that transforming your ideas into action (activism) are necessary for this change. So we decided that based on our critique on what is wrong in this capitalist society, we want to take our expectations for a care-centered furture and turn them into action. The Network Care Revolution consists of more than 80 groups and individuals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They are active in various fields of social reproduction, i.e. domestic work, health, personal assistance, child and elder care, education, housing and sex work. They are joint in the struggle against supply gaps in public services that lead to exhaustion and time pressure.
We try to connect our goals for a care-centered society with the real utopian idea of a world that is fair and just for all. Prospectively, we strive towards new models of care-relations. Our aim is a care economy where instead of maximizing profit, human needs are the priority, and where care resources are not allocated through racialized, gendered or class-based structures.
