Caring in Common

Catherine Sameh
Gender and Sexuality Studies
UC Irvine

Participants

The Caring in Common podcast mobilizes two key rubrics—care and (the) common(s)—to: 1) critically examine a set of distinct and interlinked economic, socio-political, and ecological events and conditions that define the 21st century; 2) engage the myriad ways in which care is practiced and administered at multiple scales to ameliorate crisis, suffering, burden, immiseration, precarity, scarcity, and violence; and 3) reveal the shared epistemological underpinnings of caring for and within the commons across multiple locations, sites, (infra)structures, and disciplines. Contemporary crises have generated renewed attention to care in academic, journalistic, and popular discussions. This podcast thinks through care to foreground feminist, queer, decolonial, and BiPOC scholarship, activism, and cultural production in an effort to move care out from the shadows of feminized labor and into far-reaching social, political, economic, cultural and ecological transformation.