CareVisions Project & ISS21

Professor Kathleen Lynch, Professor Emerita of Equality Studies at University College Dublin & a Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

Monday 24th January 2022 15:00-16:30 online via Microsoft Teams

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/230281988627

The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics. They exacerbate inequality while morally endorsing and institutionalising forms of competitive self-interest that jettison social justice values, and are deeply antithetical to love, care and solidarity. But capitalism is neither invincible nor inevitable. While people are self-interested, they are not purely self-interested: they are bound affectively and morally to others, even to unknown others. The cares, loves and solidarity relationships within which people are engaged give them direction and purpose in their daily lives. They constitute cultural residuals of hope that stand ready to move humanity beyond a narrow capitalism-centric set of values. Affective relations are potential sites for a counter-movement to neoliberalism