In this lecture Fiona Williams will explain how care as practice, as policy, as ethic, and as transnational dynamic lends itself to a critical intersectional perspective. She will look at care as an area of crisis at different scales – local, national, transnational and global – which is marked by two key dynamics: the longstanding devaluation of care as practice, work and ethic, and (following Rai) the depletion of support, resources and time to enable people’s capacity to care and be cared for. However, these dynamics are also caught up in two other global crises: of climate change and of racial (in)justice. Drawing on intersectionality as praxis, she will argue that understanding these intersections is an important basis for creating the necessary conceptual and political alliances for progressive transformation.

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