Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It’s hard to remember a time when the concept of care was bandied about so freely on the one hand and thrown so carelessly to the wolves on the other. It’s this haunting paradox which sits at the heart of Tim’s new book on The Care Economy and gives an increasing urgency to our many recent engagements around care.
If you want to catch up on some of them, you’ll find links to a variety of events, lectures, podcasts and interviews in this edition of our newsletter. If you’d like to join the conversation yourself, then why not come and meet us at the Trafalgar Square branch of Waterstones at 7pm on 17th June, where Tim will be in conversation with Jen Morgan from The Health Foundation.
The same topic informs several of our recent academic publications. Christine Corlet Walker was involved in a pioneering nationwide study by Oxford University on the quality of adult social care. Its conclusions on ‘for profit’ versus ‘not for profit’ models of care are startling and have profound implications both for the efficient allocation of public funds and for basic principles of fairness. Amy Isham and colleagues have written a thought-provoking article on the concept of ecotherapy as a transformative model of health and care. Megan Cumming, Birgitta Gatersleben and Amy Isham have led a comprehensive scoping review on the role of environmental factors in experiences of psychological flow.
Meanwhile, CUSP Fellow Dario Krpan—together with Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis and other international colleagues—has co-authored a timely call for psychological and behavioural science to be integrated in degrowth studies. Amy Isham, Patrick Elf and Oksana Mont have contributed a book chapter to the new Routledge Companion to Marketing and Sustainability, which explores how marketing could be re-oriented towards fairer and more sustainable lifestyles. And Amy Burnett is a co-editor of the recently published edited collection: Rural planning Futures—Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland.
Coming up soon, Christine Corlet Walker, Ben Gallant, Dario Leoni and Andrew Jackson (our EU MAPS team-members) will be travelling to Oslo to present some of their macroeconomic work at the combined Degrowth/International Society for Ecological Economics conference in Oslo.
Finally, CUSP is proud to be supporting the Corporate Bodies podcast series which launched recently. With an informal, irreverent tone, the 11-episode show uses the human body as a guiding metaphor to structure the series, weaving in vivid metaphors to demystify corporate language.
As usual we welcome your feedback and comments—and hope to see some of you at Waterstones on the 17th!
Kate Burningham and Tim Jackson
—CUSP Co-Directors
