Theorizing at Rowan: Eva Boodman, "Unsettling the Care Commons"
The Department of Philosophy and World Religions is pleased to announce the next event in our Theorizing at Rowan lecture series for Fall 2023.
On Wednesday, October 25, at 5 pm. Prof. Eva Boodman (Philosophy, Rowan University), will present a talk entitled “Unsettling the Care Commons” The event will be held in a hybrid format, in person in Business Hall 301 and online via Zoom.
Prof. Boodman has provided the following abstract for her presentation: "The enclosure or privatization of “the commons” – collectively held land, communal labor practices, and collective ways of reproducing life through childcare, eldercare, food production and preparation, education, and healthcare – is widely associated with the advent of capitalism. In the current neoliberal age, that enclosure and extraction of our practices of care has made it difficult for most on the planet to meet their basic needs. For this reason, theorists like Sylvia Federici have argued for a process of “re-commoning”, that gives regular people collective autonomy over meeting their basic needs. This paper is a first step in looking at what it means to “re-common” our practices of care, in the face of their enclosure by corporations, NGOs, governments, and the market. Rather than pinning down or reifying what should be a transitional and locally determined process, this paper looks at four zones of contradiction or “threshold spaces” that will arise in our attempts to establish a care commons.”
This event is co-sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Series Info:
Theorizing at Rowan is a series of public, work in progress lectures covering topics of interest to scholars in philosophy, religion studies, and other related disciplines. The goal of the series is to promote scholarly exchange involving the Department of Philosophy and World Religions, the University, and beyond. Speakers will include members of the department as well as faculty from other departments at Rowan and from other institutions.
All Theorizing at Rowan events are free and open to the public.
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