Des formes de vie communautaire pour conjurer la (re)production capitaliste
Résumé
How can we envision a society where care, social How can we envision a society where care, social reproduction, and community-building are safe, reproduction, and community-building are safe, joyful, and accessible to everyone? joyful, and accessible to everyone?
Family, care and community-making are at the centre of our society. Perhaps it is their place at the core of our lives that makes it so difficult to unpack and question them as concepts and practices. Our closeness precludes us from having the perspective to view familial and caring relations as a source of contradiction: while they can offer support and security, they can also be a source of violence and oppression.
With this event, we aim to take a step back and gain new perspectives to acknowledge this duality. Historically, family, care, and community have taken various forms and shapes, influencing societies differently. Our goal with this day of discussions, workshops, artistic installations and performances is to reassess these concepts, enshrined in our society as "natural" and "universal" practices, through various intersectional perspectives in order to uncover their inherent power structures.
This event is a journey through the possibilities and alternative practices in care, family and community-making, as well as their underpinning power relations. The panel members, moderators, workshop facilitators, artists and researchers will each examine the ongoing debates, norms, practices, frameworks, controversies and contradictions related to family, care and community-making within feminist, decolonial, and queer theory and practice, each in their own way and through their own medium. Together with the audience, we hope to foster spaces of co-creation, co-imagination, and collectivity, in this laboratory of ideas and practices.