Activist Care

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This book explores the disruptive dimension of care: its activist capacity to foster new forms of affective citizenship and to generate civic responsibilities that challenge established political orders. Drawing on a comparative ethnography of migrant solidarity networks in Turin and Florence, Italy, this book follows the lived experiences of volunteers, host families, activists, professionals and local communities involved in welcoming migrants. It brings to light the intimate conflicts, ethical dilemmas and emotional transformations through which care becomes a site for disruptive forms of citizenship. Far from being a simple act of assistance or social maintenance, care emerges in these contexts as a transformative practice that unsettles moral hierarchies, dismantles political boundaries and crosses affective barriers, opening up unprecedented spaces of participation, creativity and political imagination. In the context of restrictive migration policies and the growing precarity of rights, this volume rethinks care as a form of collective action, and offers an integrated reading of care, emotions and citizenship, revealing how, in the ordinary and disruptive gestures of caring solidarity with migrants, a crucial part of the democratic future is at stake.

Giacomo Lampredi is a Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy ‘Piero Martinetti’, University of Milan, Italy. His research interests revolve around the sociology of emotions and the ethics of care, with a particular focus on the politicisation of civic life.

This book explores the disruptive dimension of care: its activist capacity to foster new forms of affective citizenship and to generate civic responsibilities that challenge established political orders. Drawing on a comparative ethnography of migrant solidarity networks in Turin and Florence, Italy, this book follows the lived experiences of volunteers, host families, activists, professionals and local communities involved in welcoming migrants. It brings to light the intimate conflicts, ethical dilemmas and emotional transformations through which care becomes a site for disruptive forms of citizenship. Far from being a simple act of assistance or social maintenance, care emerges in these contexts as a transformative practice that unsettles moral hierarchies, dismantles political boundaries and crosses affective barriers, opening up unprecedented spaces of participation, creativity and political imagination. In the context of restrictive migration policies and the growing precarity of rights, this volume rethinks care as a form of collective action, and offers an integrated reading of care, emotions and citizenship, revealing how, in the ordinary and disruptive gestures of caring solidarity with migrants, a crucial part of the democratic future is at stake.

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Giacomo Lampredi

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Activist Care Affective Citizenship Migrant Solidarity Ethnographic Research Hospitality Sociology of Emotions Affective Rupture Ethics of Care

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“This wonderfully human book advances scholarship on affective citizenship through nuanced accounts of Italian activists’ everyday emotional practices of caring for migrants. Activist Care demonstrates how involvement with different others can be powerfully disruptive of politics of exclusion and formative of feelings of belonging that can transform people and polities.” (Mary Holmes, Professor of Emotions and Society, University of Edinburgh)

“Amidst an unprecedented mobilisation of people to resist neoliberal and authoritarian regimes, Activist Care provides a sophisticated theoretical recalibration of the relationship between affect and political agency. By mapping the 'situated ethics' of migrant solidarity in Italy, this work offers a vital framework for understanding how caring emotions fuel emerging reconceptualisations of citizenship, activism and responses to the disruptive precarity of the modern age.” (Maurice Hamington, author of “Revolutionary Care: Commitment and Ethos”)

“Activist Care offers a powerful and theoretically innovative rethinking of citizenship as an affective and lived process shaped through everyday social interaction. Combining rich ethnographic insight with conceptual depth, the book shows how emotions become politicised within concrete social situations, providing an original framework for understanding belonging, power and political engagement in contexts of migration and social transformation.” (Basem Mahmud, University of Granada, Spain)

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