Free Download CareNotes, "For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond Austerity―Reflections from Greece "
English | ISBN: 1942173148 | 2020 | 144 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
"Here, the treatment of pathologies-such as cancers or viruses-is considered as important as dismantling the causes of pathologies, including the social problems of debt, homelessness, police violence, and isolation. We must grasp how the de-individualization of care, what we might refer to as the communization of care, is central to fighting state and capital’s racialized and gendered forms of abandonment."
For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond Austerity-Reflections from Greece explores the landscape of care spaces coordinated by autonomous collectives in Greece, including clinics, social spaces for health, social kitchens, and safe spaces liberated from the state and capital. The significance of autonomous spaces is intensified in the very moment the state, capital, and their complicit institutions attempt to penetrate their power via austerity and state violence. In tandem with the broader anticapitalist movement, these spaces have ruptured the legitimacy of the state and capital, and reclaimed care beyond the limits of the biomedical, nonprofit, and capitalist frameworks.
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