FS 019 PZ -Radical Care

Institution: Pitzer

Description: We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. The growing inequalities produced by late capitalism have disrupted our social capacities for everything from birthing and raising children to caring for friends and family to maintaining households and communities. And yet such reproductive labor is essential for the creation and maintenance of social bonds and the functioning of institutions and infrastructures. How are artists and activists pushing back against this crisis, forging collective movements that view care for ones self and ones community as moral imperatives to act? How might the expression of radical care - in literature, activism, and art - call into being more socially just relations among friends, family, neighborhoods, and communities?

Prerequisite(s): None

First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.