Sarah is an addiction counselor at a nonprofit agency in California. Her agency offers a wide range of services, both inpatient and outpatient, and they primarily serve low-income clients with publicly funded health insurance. In this episode we discuss: the structural barriers her clients face, encouraging developments in addiction treatment, and a vision for a future where everyone gets the care they deserve.

Sources:
Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval – The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society
William Davies – The Happiness Industry

David Graeber on Care:

• http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/managerial-feudalism-revolt-caring-classes/
• https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/david-graeber-posthumous-essay-pandemic
• (it also comes up in his other work! these are just a few examples)

Further Reading:

Melinda Cooper’s Family Values is a historical/sociological account of the alliance between neoliberal policy and social conservatism.

The Museum of Care is a collaborative project around the concept of care, started by Graeber and many of his friends/students/comrades.

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