Interdependencies and Care in Pandemic Times, Symposium EscReturn, Panke Gallery, Berlin, June 2nd, 2024
The lecture Interdependencies and Care in Pandemic Times was given at the Symposium EscReturn: Scripts for Degrowth, Buenvivir and Living Otherwise, part of the Panel Nets of Interdependence: practices of healing, recovery and repair
Together with Teresa Dillon, Kathleen Bomani, Cristina Flores Pescoran and Gilly Karjevski we will reflect on individual and collective practices relating to conditions that require healing, recovery, and repair. My contribution to the panel focuses on the pandemic, on pandemic lessons and on feminist recovery plans that were written in response to the crisis of care impacting the conditions of life and survivance. Care is needed by living and sentient beings and the environments they find themselves in. At the same time, care is provided by living and sentient beings and the environments they find themselves in. Withholding care is care violence. Care extractivism is care violence. Being forced to care is care violence. Care injustice is care violence Healing from care violence is recovery from colonial patriarchal capitalism resulting in pandemics and wars on humans. non-humans, natures, and the planet. Thank you Daphne Dragona for putting together an amazing group of speakers and for addressing in this symposium the urgent concerns of the global present.
