Pirate Care
Pirate Care is a transnational research project and a network of activists, scholars and practitioners who stand against the criminalization of solidarity and for a common care infrastructure.
Pirate Care researches, gathers & nourishes those care initiatives which are taking risks by operating in the narrow grey zones left open between different knowledges, institutions and laws, inviting all to participate in a exploration of the mutual implications of care and technology that dare questioning the ideology of private property, work and metrics.
Neoliberal policies have for the last two decades re-organised the basic care provisions that were previously considered cornerstones of democratic life - healthcare, housing, access to knowledge, right to asylum, freedom of mobility, social benefits, etc. - turning them into tools for surveilling, excluding and punishing the most vulnerable. The name Pirate Care refers to those initiatives that have emerged in opposition to such political climate by self-organising technologically-enabled care & solidarity networks. (2020)
A core strategy of their work is the creation of a “syllabus” gathering practical and tactical tools to respond to the current “care crisis.”
Initiated by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak.
- Links
- http://pirate.care/
- http://syllabus.pirate.care/
- Flatten the curve, grow the care: What are we learning from Covid-19, 18 Mar 2020 ff.
- Conference, 2019
- Panel, 2020
