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Seminari e Convegni
Fugitive care: beyond capitalist welfare | By Ida Danewid
The meeting on 21 April 2026, at 4:00 pm, is part of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab seminar series, Spring 2026.
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab provides an infrastructure to facilitate a process of collective study on the shifting terrain and politics of inhabitation globally, and is directed by Michele Lancione, professor in the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), and AbdouMaliq Simone.
Abstract
Care is often seen as the antidote to violence and as a powerful framework for abolition: hence the activist slogan “fund care, not cops.” However, while scholars of racial capitalism have done much to uncover the violent history of prisons, borders, and policing, they have said less about the history of state care and welfare.
This talk explores how state-sponsored forms of care have functioned as technologies of pacification, expropriation, abandonment, and control. Looking beyond the neoliberal period of “punitive welfare,” it examines the complex relationship between care and carcerality across three domains of the “benevolent” welfare state: public health, housing, and education. In doing so, it moves toward an anarchist approach to abolition that seeks not only to fund care, but to transform and radically rethink it: what is here called “fugitive care.”
Biography
Ida Danewid is associate professor of Gender and Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). Her work has appeared, among others, in Antipode, South Atlantic Quarterly, International Political Sociology, and International Studies Quarterly. She also co-edits the journal Globalizations.
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The Beyond Inhabitation Lab provides an infrastructure to facilitate a process of collective study on the shifting terrain and politics of inhabitation globally, and is directed by Michele Lancione, professor in the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), and AbdouMaliq Simone.
Abstract
Care is often seen as the antidote to violence and as a powerful framework for abolition: hence the activist slogan “fund care, not cops.” However, while scholars of racial capitalism have done much to uncover the violent history of prisons, borders, and policing, they have said less about the history of state care and welfare.
This talk explores how state-sponsored forms of care have functioned as technologies of pacification, expropriation, abandonment, and control. Looking beyond the neoliberal period of “punitive welfare,” it examines the complex relationship between care and carcerality across three domains of the “benevolent” welfare state: public health, housing, and education. In doing so, it moves toward an anarchist approach to abolition that seeks not only to fund care, but to transform and radically rethink it: what is here called “fugitive care.”
Biography
Ida Danewid is associate professor of Gender and Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). Her work has appeared, among others, in Antipode, South Atlantic Quarterly, International Political Sociology, and International Studies Quarterly. She also co-edits the journal Globalizations.
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