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Steppingstones in larger struggles. How can we combine colliding struggles in the care crisis?
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Title / Series / Name
Deusto Journal of Human Rights
Publication Volume
Publication Issue
11
Pages
Authors
Editors
Keywords
Social movements
Caregiving
Disability rights
Women’s rights
Capitalism
Organizing
Emancipation
Caregiving
Disability rights
Women’s rights
Capitalism
Organizing
Emancipation
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/14111
Abstract
The question of whether to increase the caregiver benefit is a controversial one among policy experts and movement actors. It is criticized as counterproductive to the emancipation of disabled people and women. At the same time, it becomes the goal of organizing campaigns as it provides immediate solutions, particularly to low-income families. This spotlights two questions: 1. How can activists fight for large-scale, transformative outcomes and achieve real, tangible changes in people’s lives? 2. How can a constituency fight for its liberation without leaving other constituencies behind? Drawing on the analysis of the Hungarian caregivers’ struggle, I reveal prospects for an emancipatory resolution of these two questions. I suggest seeing the struggles of affected constituencies as different dimensions of the care crisis and propose an organizing framework that engages with the deep structural underpinnings of capitalism and takes the issues of power and control inherent in care relations seriously.
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Publisher
Place of Publication
Type
Journal article
Date
2023
Language
ISBN
Identifiers
10.18543/djhr.2693