From the COVID-19 pandemic to uprisings over police brutality, we
are living in the greatest social crisis of a generation. But the
roots of these latest emergencies stretch back decades. At their
core is a politics of death: a brutal neoliberal ideology that
combines deep structural racism with a relentless assault on social
welfare. Its results are the failing economic and public health
systems we confront today-those that benefit the few and put the
most vulnerable in harm's way. Contributors to this volume not only
protest these neoliberal roots of our present catastrophe, but they
insist there is only one way forward: a new kind of politics-a
politics of care-that centers people's basic needs and connections
to fellow citizens, the global community, and the natural world.
Imagining a world that promotes the health and well-being of all,
they draw on different backgrounds-from public health to
philosophy, history to economics, literature to activism-as well as
the example of other countries and the past, from the AIDS activist
group ACT-UP to the Black radical tradition. Together they point to
a future, as Simon Waxman writes, where "no one is disposable."
CONTRIBUTORS Robin D. G. Kelley, Gregg Gonsalves and Amy
Kapczynski, Walter Johnson, Anne L. Alstott, Melvin Rogers, Amy
Hoffman, Sunaura Taylor, Vafa Ghazavi, Adele Lebano, Paul Hockenos,
Paul Katz and Leandro Ferreira, Shaun Ossei-Owusu, , Colin Gordon,
Jason Q. Purnell, Jamala Rogers, Dan Berger, Julie Kohler, Manoj
Dias-Abey, Simon Waxman, Farah Griffin A co-publication between
Boston Review and Verso Books.
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