From 69260ce9b20e1dd44aa57aaaf4c3e48890bf52ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: valerix Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 01:56:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md' --- content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md b/content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md index 2e56a28..74a3f59 100644 --- a/content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md +++ b/content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ This Introduction gives an overview of the main questions and concerns voiced by Pirate Care primarily considers the assumption that we live in a time in which care, understood as a political and collective capacity of society, is becoming increasingly defunded, discouraged and criminalised. Neoliberal policies have for the last two decades re-organised the basic care provisions that were previously considered cornerstones of democratic life - healthcare, housing, access to knowledge, right to asylum, freedom of mobility, social benefits, etc. - turning them into tools for surveilling, excluding and punishing the most vulnerable. The name Pirate Care refers to those initiatives that have emerged in opposition to such political climate by self-organising technologically-enabled care & solidarity networks. -# On the concept of pirate care +# On the Concept of Pirate Care Punitive neoliberalism (Davies, 2016)[^5] has been repurposing, rather than dismantling, welfare state provisions such as healthcare, income support, housing and education (Cooper, 2017: 314)[^3]. This mutation is reintroducing 'poor laws' of a colonial flavour, deepening the lines of discrimination between citizens and non-citizens (Mitropoulos, 2012: 27)[^13], and reframing the family unit as the sole bearer of responsibility for dependants. @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Work on syllabus is the extension of the [Memory of the World](https://library.m In summer 2020, the Pirate Care Syllabus will be activated through an exhibition (June) and a summer camp (September) as part of [Rijeka European Capital of Culture 2020](https://rijeka2020.eu) programme [Dopolavoro](https://rijeka2020.eu/en/program/dopolavoro/)(HR). ----- -# Collective statements +# Collective Statements These below are some shared statements that emerged from the collective process building the first version of the syllabus: @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ On the technological and technopolitical side, developing tools and workflows fo To address these concerns, we have made certain technological choices. A syllabus in our framework is built from plaintext documents that are written in a very simple and human-readable [Markdown markup language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown), rendered into [a static HTML](https://www.getlektor.com/docs/what/) website that doesn’t require a resource-intensive and easily breakable database system, and which keeps its files on a [git version control system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control) that allows collaborative writing and easy forking to create new versions out of the existing syllabi. This makes it easy for a housing struggles initiative in Berlin to fork a syllabus which we have initially developed with a housing struggles initiative in London and adapt it to their own context and needs. Such a syllabus can be then equally hosted on an internet server and used/shared offline from a USB stick, while still preserving the internal links between the documents and the links to the texts in the accompanying searchable resource collection. The Pirate Care Syllabus is the first syllabus that we’ll bring to a completion. It has provided us both with an opportunity to work with the practitioners to document a range of pirate care practices and with a process to develop the technological framework. -# Online Syllabi linked with social justice movements +# Online Syllabi & Social Justice Movements In putting together a collective pirate care syllabus, open to new contributions and remixes, we were inspired, alongside many other popular education initiatives, by the recent phenomenon of hashtag syllabi (or, simply, #syllabi) connected with social justice movements, many of which are U.S. based and emerging from anti-racist struggles led by Black American and feminist activists.