What are the causes and symptoms of a current global care crisis? Why is something so important as care so undervalued? Will robots solve the care crisis!?
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Emma Dowling is a sociologist and political scientist currently teaching at the University of Vienna, prior to which she held academic positions in the UK and Germany. Her research focuses on the transnational dynamics of crisis and change in welfare, health and social care systems, and she has a long-standing interest in how emotions are put to work in contemporary capitalism. She is the award-winning author of «The Care Crisis - What Caused It and How Can We End It?» (Verso, 2021) and a founding member of the Vienna-based Competence Centre for Infrastructure Economics, Public Services and Social Provisioning.
Everyone needs care at some point in life, whether it is social care, healthcare, childcare or eldercare. In the shadow of coronavirus, care became one of the most urgent topics of our times. Yet, everywhere care systems continue to be in crisis. Despite the growing demand for care, public services are cut, while care systems are pushed even further towards the market. Invariably, those most in need of care are left to fend for themselves with those who provide care – whether paid or unpaid – are doing so under immensely difficult conditions.
In this lecture, Dowling charted the multifaceted nature of the current care crisis, its structural causes, dynamics and consequences, raising the unavoidable question: how do we end the care crisis?
In the framework of Refleks program, the lecture took place at the Filodrammatica Gallery (Korzo 28/1, Rijeka) on March 27th, 2024.
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Organized by: Drugo more
Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Rijeka – Administrative department of education and schooling, culture, sports and youth
Drugo more is a beneficiary of the financial support of the Kultura nova Foundation
Drugo more is a beneficiary of the institutional support of the National Foundation for Civil Society Development for the stabilization and/or development of the association
Cover photo: Sanja Prodan / ArtKvart.hr
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