Capitalism and Care

Harvard FAS

What is care? Who cares? And who cares? This course considers ethnographic approaches to the question of care as it is structured, valued, and contested within capitalism. Beginning with social science that has positioned care as a human experience that relies on moral processes, the course contemplates the idea of the human and care as a moral project through labor theory. Integrating foundational texts on care with feminist approaches to caring labor, we will examine the question of care…