Care

How do cultural institutions deal with internal cases of violence, abuse of power and  discrimination? In his contribution to the new publication "Theatre and Power", Nishant Shah analyzes how art and cultural institutions refuse to dismantle their power structures and merely perform care work instead of practicing it.

The crisis associated with the Covid19 pandemic has a gender, and clearly shows social inequalities of all kinds. It particularly affects women, as well as disadvantaged and variously marginalised groups. There are also attempts to exploit the pandemic for short-term political goals directly targeting women's rights.

COVID-19 uniquely affects women. Here are many of the ways it does.

The coronavirus epidemic exposes the care crisis and underlying class and regional inequalities — which the new strategy does not equip us to handle.