Care

From a society of carelessness towards a caring world

Care is a social process connected to all everyday human relationships. Strictly speaking, care can be seen as a practice owned by certain individuals who take care of others who are unable to do it for themselves. Broadly speaking, it can be understood as a social skill intersecting with interdependence and mutual aid, consisting of an emotion and an activity that cannot be limited to narrowly defined labor. From childcare, care for the elderly, and the disabled up to care for the environment, and from medical care up to the welfare state, this notion is hence dynamically emerging today and is proposed as an organizing principle for a world beyond the individualistic logic of contemporary capitalist societies.

Articles

A series of short articles by Andreas Chatzidakis, Hara Kouki, and Haris Malamidis explain and clarify different aspects of the notion and practice of care.

Publication

The social organisation of care in Greece

PUBLICATION

This book (language: Greek) is an introduction to the concept of care, a topic that is increasingly at the center of narratives, analyses, claims, and policy proposals. Furthermore, it explores aspects of how care is socially organised in Greece, focusing on the different roles of the state, the market, the community and the family, while aspiring to become part of a collective reflection and dialogue on the ways in which care is socially organized in Greece, but also on how we imagine an equal, just, and caring world.

By Hara Kouki, Haris Malamidis and Andreas Chatzidakis

Videos

A series of seven animated videos in collaboration with the Obscura Lab team, based on one of the most talked about books of recent years worldwide, “The Care Manifesto” (video language: Greek).