The Politics of Care

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<b>A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine <i>Boston Review</i>.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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 a