From b36b4850df250070f46a0c975ee4a78d597c03c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: valerix Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 23:47:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md' --- content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md b/content/topic/piratecareintroduction.md index 2eb84af..bea58e9 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.