Dear crit-geog list,
The following event may be of interest.
All the best,
Maria
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Dear all,
Professor Martha Fineman will be speaking at the Bristol Festival of Ideas
in partnership with the Centre for Legal Research at UWE.
22 June 2011, 19.30-20.30
Watershed, Bristol
The link to the relevant page is here:
http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/?p=1352#more-1352
"Balancing Budgets on the Backs of the Poor and Vulnerable: America's Return
to Social Darwinism"
In times of economic crisis often the first programmes
to be sacrificed are those related to social services, education, health,
and general welfare. In current political rhetoric in the United States,
these are programmes presented as consuming resources needed in order to
address the health and wellbeing of the economy. These services are not
viewed as providing economic or material benefits to the collective society
such as those perceived to come from support for business and other
institutions directly related to economic development. Bankers receive
bailouts, while teachers are laid off without pay and assistance to
families is reduced and restricted.
What are the assumptions and assertions that facilitate American society's
devaluation of the very labour by which it is reproduced? While it is
caretaking that produces the next generation of citizens through provision
of education, nurturance, guidance, support, and discipline, such service
to the general good is routinely dismissed as merely the private choice of
the individual and/or the result of natural altruistic feelings associated
with family status, such as motherhood. How can we assert a politics of
care that claims for social and 'people-oriented' services the same types
of accommodation, subsidy and support as are afforded to other society
preserving contributions?
The event can be booked for £5.00 via the Watershed on 0117 927 5100.
Anna Grear
Senior Lecturer in Law
Head of the International Law and Human Rights Research Unit
Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment
Director, Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment
(GNHRE) Series Editor, Law Justice and Ecology (Glasshouse/Routledge
Cavendish)
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Maria Fannin
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
University Road
Bristol BS8 1SS
United Kingdom
tel: +44 117 928 8928
fax: +44 117 928 7878
http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/staff/staff_fannin.html
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