Fugitive Care: Beyond the Violence of Welfare

Date: Wed 28 Jan

Time: 17:00 - 18:00

Room: 138, Alison Richard Building

Speaker: Dr Ida Danewid

Chair: Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro

This project examines how care and welfare systems emerged in a global context of empire, (settler) colonialism, and racial capitalism. By extending the insights of the abolitionist critique of prisons, police, and borders to care and welfare institutions, it charts how state-sponsored forms of care have functioned as technologies of pacification, expropriation, abandonment, and control. Working with a set of movements and organisers, it also explores how hegemonic notions of care are resisted, subverted, and reimagined by local communities struggling for dignity, justice, and sovereignty. In so doing, the project ultimately works towards an anarchistic approach to abolition which seeks, not just to fund care, but to transform and conceive of it anew: what I call fugitive care.

TBC: Prof Ben Clift

Chair: Dr José Tomás Labarca

Date: Wed 25 Feb

Time: 17:00 - 18:00

Room: 138, Alison Richard Building

TBC: Prof Ronen Palan

Date: Wed 11 Mar

Time: 17:00 - 18:30

Room: S1, Alison Richard Building