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  • Book Launch, Thursday, October 15: Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State, by editors Petr Urban and Lizzie Ward

    A public book launch/webinar with four presentations by the book contributors including Joan Tronto. About this Event The virtual book launch/webinar takes place on Zoom on Thursday, October 15 from 3pm to 4.30pm CEST (Prague/Bratislava time). The program includes an opening presentation of the book followed by four short talks by authors who contributed to the volume:…

  • COVID-19 pandemic: A Crisis of Care

    By Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Jo Littler, Catherine Rottenberg, Lynne Segal (Care Collective) The novel coronavirus outbreak is a new global crisis. Yet the current crisis is not only the result of a new pathogen circulating around the world. It is also a crisis of care. Here the Care Collective (Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Jo…

  • How South Korea copes and its impact on care

    Hello all, I am Hee-Kang Kim from Korea University. Here is a short piece of information on how the government of South Korea is coping with the Corona virus and its impact on care. So far, Korea has rather successfully dealt with the Corona virus. Childcare facilities and schools are now suspended, but in the…

  • Spreading the Care: The Call for Global Solidarity

    by Merel Visse and Bob Stake In the course of a few weeks, our response to COVID-19 changed the world as we knew it. Suddenly, we became potential ‘vectors’ and ‘victims’ of the virus. We are forced to make small and large-scale decisions that affect our private and public lives. Hard decisions. Most of them…