Steppingstones in larger struggles. How can we combine colliding struggles in the care crisis?
The question of whether to increase the caregiver benefit is a controversial one among policy experts and movement actors. It is criticized as counterproductive to the emancipation of disabled people and women. At the same time, it becomes the goal of organizing campaigns as it provides immediate s...
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The question of whether to increase the caregiver benefit is a controversial one among policy experts and movement actors. It is criticized as counterproductive to the emancipation of disabled people and women. At the same time, it becomes the goal of organizing campaigns as it provides immediate solutions, particularly to low-income families. This spotlights two questions: 1. How can activists fight for large-scale, transformative outcomes and achieve real, tangible changes in people’s lives? 2. How can a constituency fight for its liberation without leaving other constituencies behind? Drawing on the analysis of the Hungarian caregivers’ struggle, I reveal prospects for an emancipatory resolution of these two questions. I suggest seeing the struggles of affected constituencies as different dimensions of the care crisis and propose an organizing framework that engages with the deep structural underpinnings of capitalism and takes the issues of power and control inherent in care relations seriously.
Received: 05 July 2022
Approval: 05 December 2022
Published online: Articles in Press, February 2023
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| spelling | doaj.art-64ee1676ccc74294b0de4291cb40ec832023-06-30T09:57:53ZengUniversity of DeustoDeusto Journal of Human Rights2530-42752603-60022023-06-011110.18543/djhr.2693Steppingstones in larger struggles. How can we combine colliding struggles in the care crisis?Bernadett Sebaly0CEU Democracy Institute. Central European University, Hungary The question of whether to increase the caregiver benefit is a controversial one among policy experts and movement actors. It is criticized as counterproductive to the emancipation of disabled people and women. At the same time, it becomes the goal of organizing campaigns as it provides immediate solutions, particularly to low-income families. This spotlights two questions: 1. How can activists fight for large-scale, transformative outcomes and achieve real, tangible changes in people’s lives? 2. How can a constituency fight for its liberation without leaving other constituencies behind? Drawing on the analysis of the Hungarian caregivers’ struggle, I reveal prospects for an emancipatory resolution of these two questions. I suggest seeing the struggles of affected constituencies as different dimensions of the care crisis and propose an organizing framework that engages with the deep structural underpinnings of capitalism and takes the issues of power and control inherent in care relations seriously. Received: 05 July 2022 Approval: 05 December 2022 Published online: Articles in Press, February 2023 https://djhr.revistas.deusto.es/article/view/2693social movementscaregivingdisability rightswomen’s rightscapitalismorganizing |
| spellingShingle | Bernadett Sebaly Steppingstones in larger struggles. How can we combine colliding struggles in the care crisis? Deusto Journal of Human Rights social movements caregiving disability rights women’s rights capitalism organizing |
| title | Steppingstones in larger struggles. How can we combine colliding struggles in the care crisis? |
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| title_short | Steppingstones in larger struggles. How can we combine colliding struggles in the care crisis? |
| title_sort | steppingstones in larger struggles how can we combine colliding struggles in the care crisis |
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