The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

by The Care Collective

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current from intimate care--childcare, healthcare, elder care--to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way.The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors want to reimagine the role of care in our everyday lives, making it the organising principle in every dimension and at every scale of life. We are all dependent on each other, and only by nurturing these interdependencies can we cultivate a world in which each and every one of us can not only live but thrive.The Care Manifesto demands that we must put care at the heart of the state and the economy. A caring government must promote collective joy, not the satisfaction of individual desire. This means the transformation of how we organise work through co-operatives, localism and nationalisation. It proposes the expansion of our understanding of kinship for a more 'promiscuous care'. It calls for caring places through the reclamation of public space, to make a more convivial city. It sets out an agenda for the environment, most urgent of all, putting care at the centre of our relationship to the natural world.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Disability, Feminism, Sociology, Social Justice, Theory

129 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2020

Reviews

[Zoë Siobhan Baillie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one disappointed me. It started off great, talking about care, and the ideology of "independence" and how caring is sidelined and undervalued. There was discussion of gender and race, not hugely in depth but this is a short manifesto so that's understandable. The book quickly moves into the authors visions and plans for a caring society, building on real life examples of mutual aid, cooperatives and so on.

Things started to go a bit downhill for me with the "caring states" chapter. I am not the kind of grumpy anarchist who thinks meaningful change can't ever happen under a capitalist state - of course there are ways our lives can be improved, I love a transitional demand. But the authors have so much faith in the ability for the state to just *become* benevolent, there was no discussion of why the state is not benevolent beyond "neoliberalism", no acknowledgement of the states fundamental role in upholding the status quo and acting in the interests of capital. Furthermore there was little discussion of what it might take to force a state into making any of the concessions proposed by the manifesto, beyond presumably just voting in these changes. It was a frustrating direction for a promising book to take.

Edited from ** to *** because they never actually claimed to not be social democrats I suppose.

[Kate Page · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are a lot of good things in this, but ultimately I found it quite unsatisfactory.
I agree with all of the criticisms of neo-liberalism, and with the proposals for change and what needs to be done. There were some interesting ideas, and some food for discussion and thought.
I liked the section on kinship, and alternatives to the family, and found much of the content interesting.
However, the overall framing around 'care' just didn't work for me. 'Care' as a description is problematic. It is really difficult to use 'care' as your framework and not to sound like you are saying at some level - look, if we just all cared more we could put this right. And to create a moral higher ground peopled by middle class liberals who 'care'. So, despite the fact that I agreed with a lot of what they said, the framing put my teeth on edge. To be fair, the text is actually much more nuanced than this. But it's difficult to use 'care' as a central plank of your framework without it ending up as a moral, rather than a political, position.
For me, the writers also put far too much weight on the power of collective alternative structures within capitalism to significantly change things. I agree they are part of the process, but nowhere near enough on their own.
Despite these disagreements, I was really pleased to have read it, and that there are people writing and thinking and generating discussion on these issues.

[Richard Derus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Real Rating: 3.75* of five, rounded up because it makes me wistful

I RECEIVED A DRC OF THIS TITLE FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.

The contributors outline theoretical bases for extending the concept of care, starting with feminist thinker Joan Tronto's formulation of types of care. First there is caring for, the step-one state of all care, the delivering care from one person to another. Next comes caring about, the empathetic connection that leads us to extend our hand to others, often strangers to us. And caring with, the hardest stage of care that Tronto identifies...the urge to act, to make one's ideas and suggestions work in the wider world, for example the people who join Greenpeace or Doctors Without Borders.

The contributors use this ingenious and simple system of ideas about caring to offer some blissfully utopian suggestions for enabling "promiscuous care," which sounds a lot racier than it is. I hoped for something louche; I got the idea that a truly well-run planet would be promiscuously cared for, about, and with because the Collective urges on us a paradigm shift into drawing no distinctions between the needy and caring. Animals, ecosystems, all are in need of care; souls and minds and bodies, no matter whose or what's bodies and souls we're talking about, should be able to expect care. Simply for existing.

If that does not make your heart swell and your eyes leak a bit, you're dead inside. The whole review is on Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud.

[el · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5/3. Meh. I’m really disappointed. Gonna get into it (sorry)

So many critiques idk where to start, but the main one is they spend waaaaay too much time coming up with at best temporary ‘solutions’ under capitalism, and attempting to work with the systems we already have that are screwing us over @ every turn. No thank u.

Advocating for “more porous borders” over no borders, and justifying this by playing into the myth of overpopulation & overcrowding was also a big no for me.

Enjoyed the caring kinships chapter a lot - minus the description of vulnerable people as ‘frail’ which was ICK - and all the parts on mutual aid. Also loved the exploration into different types of care.

Tbh there was a fair bit of questionable language which surprised me. Also a lot of fluff, repetition and long words just for the sake of it.

Overall some good concepts, but nothing new or particularly groundbreaking for me. So close, but yet so far !!! Not radical enough !
Love the idea of a politic & manifesto framed around care and focusing on our interdependence, just don’t think this is the best execution of that. We can’t reform the systems that are designed to work against us.

[natàlia · Rating 1 out of 5]

some people will actually jump off a bridge while juggling with knives instead of even using the word “communism”. and then some ~radical~ publishing house will just publish said effort to desperately look like a clown.

[•.~*Izzy*~.• · Rating 5 out of 5]

such a great book and perfectly explains how we can collectively come together to put more intention behind our society, ensuring we are all taken care of, because an individualistic society only creates more divides. in order to have a better functioning world and society, we have to put more care into our politics, our relationships, our communities, the world, and even the economy. using morals and consideration in all aspects of our society will boost connection, and help our many crises get solved.

[Philippe · Rating 5 out of 5]

What if we would redesign our communities and institutions to enhance reciprocity and care instead of instilling fear and competition, as is the case in our contemporary, capitalist and corona-infested world? In this compact manifesto a collective of five British social scientists offers an answer to this question. Their vision is anchored in an acknowledgment of the fundamental interdependence of human and non-human entities (see also my review of Hanne De Jaegher's Denken over liefde ). It reflects feminist, queer, anti-racist and eco-socialist values. The conception of care that is foregrounded goes beyond the kind of 'hands-on care' that is offered in response to developmental or medical needs (the 'caring for'). Here, care is understood as 'a social capacity and activity involving the nurturing of all that is necessary for the welfare and flourishing of life". Hence it also encompasses the emotional investment reflected in 'caring about', and the political capacity to mobilise and 'care with' others.

The authors of this manifesto show an awareness of the potentially problematic character of being involved in caring relationships that unfold in a intersubjective field characterised by tensions. Caring is searching for a delicate balance between self-preservation and investment in the other. It is fundamentally co-creative (see also Annemarie Mol's The Logic of Care). Psychologically, it may expose the participants in the caring relationship to challenging emotions (Hans van Ewijk, in his Complexity and Social Work, discusses the practice of normative professionalisation as a support in handling these conflicts).

In any case, in our societies today these capacities are being systematically and intentionally eroded, in order to increase dependency, anxiety, conformism and xenophobia. We are not educated and trained to nurture, but to compete and to obsess about our sense of insecurity. This is profoundly debilitating and destructive, of everything.

We need another kind of society to rekindle our capacity for caring again. What does this mean? Conceptually the manifesto is structured along two dimensions: scale and mode. As regards the latter, I've already hinted at distinct modes of caring - 'for', 'about', and 'with'.  Qua scale the blueprint for a caring society unfolds across five levels, from intimate kinship relationships to care for the wider world, with communities, nation states and economies as intermediate scales. At the intersection of scales and modes we are invited to think about cultures, practices and social resources and infrastructures that engender an expansive and experimental ethos of care.

In my review I'm zooming on the community level, as it seems to be the core of the whole argument. The caring capacity of communities hinges on four key infrastructures and capabilities: the capacity for mutual caring, the availability of infrastructures for sharing material and immaterial resources, of public space (where people are free to congregate without spending money) and of community wealth building mechanisms (that keep essential public services out of private hands, and make sure that financial resources are not siphoned off but continue to circulate in the community). The manifesto points out that there are plenty of working examples of these infrastructures already today. Incidentally there is no mentioning, likely deliberately so, of the Universal Basic Income as a redistribution mechanism. Not foregrounded either by the authors of the manifesto is the obvious potential of these capacities and infrastructures to link up to form a virtuous dynamic that progressively increases the communities' capacity to care.

A word about the capacity for mutual caring, which is a crucial enabler at a deep cultural level. We have to break out of the constricting cocoon of the nuclear family as the dominant, almost exclusive realm of caring relationships, and imagine new modes of care (for/about/with) across difference (and that includes the non-human). These much more expansive and differentiated caring relationships are the humus for the politics of care endorsed by this manifesto.

The key challenge at the level of the state and the planet is to restrict the power and reach of capitalist markets, and to rewrite the cultural and legal rules that govern their dismissal and destruction of what really makes communities tick. "Care and capitalist market logics cannot be reconciled." Care-engendering institutions have to be designed by re-regulating, re-socialising and de-marketising key areas of the economy and the public sphere. And that includes turning the tide of the rapidly advancing commoditisation of our lives via surveillance capitalism.

At the transnational level the reasoning reconnects with the cultural shift toward 'everyday cosmopolitanism' with which the manifesto started.

Altogether this compact publication, barely 100 pages long, provides a cogent and graspable vision of a regenerative, caring society.

[Katelyn Entzeroth · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick read I would recommend to anyone feeling emotionally crushed by the systemic carelessness pervasive in our neoliberal society. Unlike most political writing I’ve read recently, this manifesto provides a vision for the future instead of solely critiquing the current systems in place. Overall I found it inspiring, but I think the authors could have made minor edits to make it more accessible to people who don’t already have an understanding of neoliberalism, capitalism, co-ops, the green new deal, and other political and economic concepts discussed in the book, hence 4/5 stars. Footnotes to simplify these concepts and recommend additional reading would have been helpful and made this accessible for a wider audience.

[Gabriella · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a great continuation of a topic that is everywhere on my mind and in my life!! If I could summarize the most helpful concept I’m taking away from the Care Manifesto, it would be the notion of promiscuous care. The authors of this manifesto, who refer to themselves as The Care Collective, are encouraging readers to get creative not just about who is in our family, but also about who we can arrange care networks with!! The more expansive we can make our care ethics, the more quickly we can come to see (and hopefully address) the care needs of our loved ones, our neighbors, our fellow humans, and our world! The chapters of the Care Manifesto align pretty neatly with this notion of expansion, and have a nesting doll format. The chapters are as follows: 1. Caring Politics, 2. Caring Kinships, 3. Caring Communities, 4. Caring States, 5. Caring Economies, and 6. Caring for the World.

As you would guess, the Care Collective does not shy away from first naming the systems and realities that keep us in a careless world. We live in careless governments and care-stripped communities, which are increasingly relying on surveillance and punishment to control individuals who don’t see their care needs as personal burdens to be solved alone. As individuals, we also are prohibited from caring more, because in order to do so, we’d need to first work less! The exhaustions of capitalism are a key barrier to more promiscuous care, and to more fluid care. This fluidity was another point I appreciated in this book—the authors kindly note that there is rarely a one-sided dichotomy between need-less carers and those who are cared for! A world with more space for all of us could help care becoming something that increasingly flows both ways—what a beautiful vision!

My favorite chapter: 3. Caring Communities
Chapter 3, Caring Communities, was my favorite section of this book, and where it really all came together for me. This was the most tangible section, as the methods of neighborliness are ones I can do a better job of taking up today!!! The Collective lists four main items that are needed for caring communities: mutual support, public space, shared resources, and local democracy. As you might imagine, I am in dire need of all four!!!

Mutual support is about caring for neighbors you already know, and caring for those you don’t through mutual aid. Public space isn’t just outdoor spaces like parks and gardens, but also indoor spaces like concert halls and hospitals and assisted living facilities or even our homes. The public space concepts of sharing infrastructure are closely connected (though more political) than planners’ current obsession over third spaces. Shared resources is about realizing we buy a lot of stuff we don’t need regularly, and instead should be sharing or borrowing!! I loved the concept of libraries of things, and in general I think this practice aligns with the Low Buy or No Buy goals people have for 2025. Like with third spaces, this is a topic I frequently hear about on TikTok, and shows how many people share a yearning for more promiscuous care.

I was hoping the local democracy section would discuss the Black cooperative movement in more detail, but perhaps unsurprisingly, they mostly just stick to namedropping the Mondragon work and the Rochdale pioneers. As Jessica Gordon Nembhard notes in Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, the Black cooperative tradition directly grew out of the Black mutual aid tradition. On page 82 of Collective Courage, Dr. Gordon Nembhard notes that “These efforts were based on values as much as on need…Values such as solidarity, concern for community, helping thy neighbor, and lifting as you climb were commonly espoused and practiced by all of the cooperatives studied [in her research on nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century Black cooperatives.]” This perhaps is too much to ask, but I think it was an example that fit perfectly with the broader note about how the goal of cooperatives can often be to “scale up scare” without abandoning one’s mission and/or autonomy.

The other elements of the local democracy section that I enjoyed discussed opportunities for “municipal care”, such as how local governments could support employee buyouts of companies and prioritize local co-ops in city procurement processes. The collective’s recommendations for the “in-sourcing” of government operations with the goal of better worker’s rights and citizen control were probably the biggest ask, but this is a manifesto after all!

My next favorite chapter: 4. Caring States
I also really enjoyed some ideas in Chapter 4 (Caring States), starting with the premise that “the state is a critical arena if we are to create any sort of universal care.” (55) This reminds me of one of my favorite parts of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. In Care Work, Piepzna-Samarasinha quotes a friend who notes that “I don’t ever want to depend on being liked or loved by the community for the right to shit in my toilet when I want to.” This quote cuts to the heart of how what we call communal care is often really a cult of personality—and this is why I love the idea of a “caring state” that could help provide a safety net to make sure people will not get left behind if they aren’t popular enough to be a part of an autonomous care network.

This chapter also left me really excited about what education and job training could look like in a caring state—it could be an opportunity to make sure that everyone has more tools and skills to take care of each other!! Finally, I appreciated this chapter’s reflection on how the care crisis is also an immigration and border abolition issue. Many of the (under)paid care workers in the Global North currently face cruelty at the hands of our immigration systems, and this is something that more caring states would have to do away with!

Per usual, the end is a bit rocky
The final chapters (5. Caring Economies and 6. Caring for the World) sometimes felt a bit too large to sink my teeth into. Chapter 5 did reference austerity-era Greece as a case study for the need of caring economies, which was an interesting surprise. The Greek fiscal crisis was also heavily discussed in one of my favorite books of 2024, Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition. In this book, they spoke less about how the deprivation demands of Greece’s creditors led to the austerity regime, and moreso focused on how this regime made room for informal, grassroots economies that were more about caring for one another. The Collective’s core argument is that the “free market” economy is actually INCAPABLE of curating the intimacy necessary for care work, and because the market distorts everything, building true alternatives will be the only path to promiscuous care.

I did appreciate Chapter 6’s continued expansion to how we need to care for our increasingly at-risk planet. However, these sections felt quite dated (lots of AOC/Green New Deal praise), and the least tangible. My friend and buddy reader, Adriana, noted that the end chapters were also too optimistic about temporary changes and concessions during COVID, and I tend to agree! It’s impossible to be a fortune teller, but it still makes for a very difficult read in 2024.

Final Thoughts
I’d definitely recommend this book, with the strongest recommendations for Chapters 1-4!! However, it’s a small text, so I don’t see the harm in finishing out the full thing. The Care Manifesto helped broaden my notion of care, and left me with a renewed sense of this topic’s importance. Like all the best books, I now have even more things I want to learn about: what happened in Greece’s economy, where the “Fearless Cities” municipal movement took place, and how the concept of promiscuous care was practiced during the AIDS epidemic.

A final reflection from buddy read is that I’d like to keep learning about how to lead with an ethic of care in my everyday lives. So many times, it seems like the leading ethic I see promoted is guilt! When you enter a new place, you shouldn’t stay here, shouldn’t buy from there, and should generally be sorry for your ragged existence in the Global North. I don’t mean to suggest at all that boycotting isn’t important, or that it’s not a useful idea to avoid Airbnb or something, but moreso that this still a limiting, reactive, and consumption-driven approach. In 2025, I hope to explore how the ethic of (promiscuous!) care could be a guiding force for how I interact with the world, so I can become more proactive about my beliefs. 😊

[mims ₊ ⊹ · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 … it was difficult to read so much talk and not enough.. other stuff
yet another text for my philosophy class <3
— we’re exploring the relationships of vulnerability, care, and placing that in a feminist perspective 🌟

[Jack · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Care Manifesto critiques the "careless" model of neoliberal capitalist social, political, and economic organization in favor of an approach centered on the essential interdependence of people everywhere. The author argue that caring for, caring about, and caring with one another can serve as the foundation for reimagining healthy sustainable relationships in politics, kinship, communities, states, economies, and the wider natural world. Their perspective relies on the premise that a more promiscuous, convivial spirit of empathetic solidarity can and should be scaffolded by critical material analyses and collective actions. In particular, the authors explore how community features related to mutual support, public spaces, shared resources and local democracy both highlight the failures of neoliberalism and provide potential sectors to focus organized action in a pursuit of a more caring world.

The book is valuable not because it contributes any new ideas to the intersectional, eco-socialist imagination, but because it synthesizes the endemic problems of capitalism within the framework of a care-based vocabulary. What readers gain is a fairly readable, actionable analysis of the systems and ideologies that so effectively control and alienate us. I found it fun and exciting to read, and I feel more prepared than ever to critique capitalist hegemony in ways that extend beyond facile academic arguments.

[Leonie Nicks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not one for persuading anyone who doesn't already have a left-wing bent. Fierce language and hyperbole that at times gets my scientific evidence brain grumbling. However, really liked the communication of the idea of recognising our interdependence and I agree is something that has become viscerally obvious in the context of a pandemic. I liked that the book focused primarily on solutions. It was very macro-economic in its approach and so the solutions often didn't feel very tangible. There was a slightly disheartening moment where when championing all these self-organised examples that sprung up in Greece, the numbers involved were tiny and made me worry about the reality of scaling some of these ideas. I also liked that the book challenged the narrative that all care is either privatised or done by the nuclear family - something that we've not really tried to tackled in our work (for various reasons), but wonder if there is a way to do it.

[Silke · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was constantly hoping the authors would go deeper into some proposals, but this is after all a manifesto. A bittersweet experience, since it provides examples of how things could be different but also highlights the tremendous work we still have to do to redefine how we relate to one another.

I really liked it, and hope to read some of the related works on how we can move towards a more caring existence.

[Sleepless Dreamer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have successfully read my leftist manifesto of the year, now I can return to studying economics and business (in which my textbook cheerfully tries to teach us how to best manipulate workers). Review to come!

[Cemre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gülnur’un yazısı: https://www.catlakzemin.com/bakim-top...

[Gizem Kendik Önduygu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hayatımda ilk defa bir okuma grubuna katıldım. Okuma gruplarına karşı önyargım vardı ama ne şanslıyım ki ilk buluşmada feminist-ırkçılık karşıtı-eko-sosyalist bir toplulukla The Care Collective’in (bu arada onlar da bir okuma grubu olarak yola çıkmış) evrensel bakıma dayalı queer-feminist-ırkçılık karşıtı-eko-sosyalist bir dünya tahayyül ettiği Bakım Manifestosu’nu okuduk.
Müsade varsa şuraya bir özet bırakıyorum.

Bugüne kadar bakımı kadınlara yüklediniz, kadınların bakım emeğini görünmezleştirdiniz, değersizleştirdiniz. Sadece kadınların değil, herkesin bakım için kapasitesi olduğunu ve bu kapasitenin geliştirilebileceğini hatırlamamız gerekiyor. Bakım öyle sadece bir grubun diğer gruba verdiği bir iş değil. Bütün insanların bakım alan ve bakım veren haline geldiği karşılıklı bağlılığa dayalı bir ilişki biçimi haline gelmeli.

Eğer “bakım” dediğimizde aklınıza huzurevlerinde yaşlı bakımı veya hastanelerdeki hasta bakımı geliyorsa sizin için yeni bir “evrensel bakım” tanımları var. Aile, hasta veya yaşlı bakımı gibi gündelik uygulamaları içine alacak şekilde evrensel bakımı: gezegenin, insanların ve gezegendeki tüm canlıların gelişimini gözeten, karşılıklı bağlılığa dayalı bireysel ve müşterek bir sosyal kapasite olarak tanımlıyorlar. Böylece içine mülteciler gibi kırılgan gruplara hizmet sağlayanlar, çevre aktivistleri, ulaşım, eğitim hizmeti sunanlar veya barınma hakkı için düşük konut fiyatı sağlayanlar da dahil oluyor. Yani karşılıklı bir bağlılık anlayışı içinde birbirimize, gezene, tüm canlılara baktığımız bir dünya tahayyülleri var.

Normalde birbirimize karşı sorumlu hissettiğimiz ve önemsediğimiz insanları düşününce aklımıza en yakınımızdakiler; akrabalar, arkadaşlar belki aynı ülkede yaşayanlar geliyor. Care Manifesto’nun burada da adım adım en yakınlarımızdan başlayarak en uzağımızdakilere uzanan karşılıklı bir bakım önerisi var. Herkesin herkese baktığı çoklu bakım ilişkileri, biyolojik olan ve olmayan annelik biçimleri ve “seçilmiş aileler” gibi örneklerle giderek kendimize benzemeyen insanları da gözettiğimiz geniş bir “dünyadaşlık” zinciri oluşturuyorlar. Siyasi alanda kar ve büyümeyi değil, bakımı merkeze alan bir siyaset anlayışını talep ediyorlar.

[Elena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me gustó mucho haber comenzado el año leyendo este libro. Leer sobre la forma en que las vidas de todos en el planeta están conectadas y son interdependientes me dio mucha esperanza, pero también mucha tristeza porque estamos muy lejos de actuar bajo esa premisa. En el libro se analizan los diferentes tipos de cuidados (care as in take care of, care about y take care with) en todas las áreas de la vida y lo hace en el contexto actual, lo cual es muy interesante aunque a veces también siento que se quedaba corto en ejemplos. Pero bueno, es un manifesto. A pesar de que creo que es bastante accesible (excepto el último capítulo donde habla más sobre economía), creo que sí es necesario tener noción básica de los conceptos que ahí se tocan.

Mi parte favorita fue cuando habla de lo importante que es crear comunidad y dar valor a la vida de los demás como si fueran de tu familia. Al final de todo sí me dieron ganas de llorar. Ese es el mundo donde quiero vivir.

[Yoshita Sood · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this except the last chapter which was somehow below average and I was zoned out almost the entire time reading it, but the rest is definitely worth it

[Florian · Rating 3 out of 5]

essentieel boekje dat gaat over hoe de notie van zorg maatschappelijk kan ingevuld worden (en hoe het nu niet gedaan wordt). het reikt in het hoofdstuk over caring communities helder een paar hoekstenen van zorg aan, dat vond ik een sterk hoofdstuk! ook het deel over caring states was duidelijk in z’n pleidooi dat staten moeten zorgen dat elk individu moet kunnen floreren.

de schrijfstijl is nogal droog wel en leest beetje traag. natuurlijk is het een manifest en niet per ce een uitgediepte studie, maar van mij had het ook wat radicaler nog mogen zijn in zijn stellingnames en in z’n anti-neoliberalistische opvattingen. het was nu echt de basis. Ik vind het een belangrijk boek, maar naar mijn mening is het vooral een springplank voor verdieping in zorgethiek en een nadenken over alternatieve vormen van samenleven waarin zorg centralere rol speelt!

[Michela nonostante · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un eccellente manifesto che mette in luce l’urgenza e la necessità di ripensare la società partendo dalla priorità della cura reciproca. Leggo con dispiacere molte critiche al non offrire soluzioni concrete, forse perché non a tutti è chiaro il significato del termine politico Manifesto.
Io ho trovato la lettura, invece, molto precisa e concreta, intrisa anche di uno straordinario ottimismo dato dal momento storico (quello della pandemia) nel quale era facile pensare che avremmo imparato certe lezioni.
Leggerlo oggi, dopo l’ondata delle elezioni degli ultimi mesi, fa venire il magone in gola. Ma credere in quel futuro lì è ancora non solo auspicabile, ma più che mai necessario.

[Jamie Young · Rating 4 out of 5]

if you're interested in a queer-feminist-anti-racist-eco-socialist political vision and manifesto (their words not mine), then this is well worth the read. The Care Collective cleverly breaks down various levels of care within a society, looking at our interpersonal relationships, and expanding til we hit the duty we have towards each other as nations and one global population.

found it unengaging at certain points, probably due to the thorough explanation of ideas, but this is a very well reasoned and justifiable read of leftist politics.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Koronapandemian aikaan kirjoitettu Hoivamanifesti muistuttaa globaalin kriisin keskellä niistä yhteiskunnallisista muutoksista, joita meidän on absoluuttisen välttämätöntä tehdä, mikäli mielimme pysyä yhteiskunnallisesti, tasaveroisesti ja maapallon rajoitteisia resursseja kunnioittaen elossa ihmislajina. Aikaansa vain osin sidottu, siitä ehkä tietyn päättäväisyyden ammentava manifesti esittelee hoivaavaa valtiota ja markkinaehtoisen talouden ohittamista keinona palauttaa ihmisyys ja hoiva yhteisen päätöksen teon ja politiikan keskiöön. Manifesti liikkuu tyylilajilleen tyypillisesti varsin korkealla ylätasolla, mutta tarjoaa inspiroivaa luettavaa kaikille toisistaan välittäville. Eli toivottavasti ihan kaikille.

[Yaiza · Rating 3 out of 5]

naaa increíble, me hizo tener una perspectiva distinta del mundo. Además, tiene que ver mucho con el feminismo interseccional y el trabajo no remunerado. Este libro me permitió apreciar más la interdependencia y el bien colectivo y rechazar la idea de que tengo que ser una mujer fuerte, independiente y que pueda con todo yo sola

[Hayley]

ughhhhh the kind of book i’d recommend a colleague who is starting to think neoliberalism is bad actually. some relevant references to recent organising efforts and there’s a paragraph about a public internet in chapter 5 that i wanna learn more about but fundamentally a text that feels optimistic about the green new deal, market regulation, and legislature…in ways i do not

[karina]

Kindle 🤓

[Lucía · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5

Creo que plantea ideas muy interesantes y para todo aquel que no sepa mucho del tema, este manifiesto puede servir de guía o base. Sí que es cierto que hubo capítulos que me costaron más, pero en general ha sido una lectura fácil.

[Sess · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh

[Paula Martínez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sabeu el meme que diu de subratllar només lo important i està tot groc? Doncs això, tota l’estona dilo.

[Hande · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Ve hiç kuşku yok ki, bir yabancı için ve bir yabancı tarafından sunulan bakım yeterli kaynağa sahip olduğunda, çoklu bakım bağlarını güçlendirerek o yabancıyı daha aşina hale getirir."

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[Dani · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my third time reading this book and each time something new has stuck with me. From the concept of the friend as the archetypal caring relationship, to the new municipalism, to the importance of public space, to promiscuous caring, this book offers beautiful possibilities and opportunities for how the post-pandemic world can transform into one that embraces a caring politics on both micro and macro scales. I appreciate the practicality of the vision put forth by the authors, as well as the accessibility with which they articulate their ideas. I recommend this book to anyone meditating on how we can move forward from our present moment into a better, more caring world.