Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue, Important Public Statement

The Politics of Care, The Politics of the Politics of Care, and The real Care in the Politics of Care

July 30, 2024
“Academic careers often take people away from the support networks that help to raise a child, care for an aging parent, or weather a medical emergency.”     For seven years (very late 2009 or very early 2010 to very late 2016) I cared for my terminal-ill wife while working on my scholarship. I was […]

“Academic careers often take people away from the support networks that help to raise a child, care for an aging parent, or weather a medical emergency.”

 

 

For seven years (very late 2009 or very early 2010 to very late 2016) I cared for my terminal-ill wife while working on my scholarship. I was a caregiver and in the widest sense, an academic.

 

 

Emily C. Bloom is a public-humanities fellow at Sarah Lawrence College and the author of I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art.

 

 

In The Higher Education Supplement (THE; July  26, 2024) Bloom wrote “Why the Caregiving Crisis Is Driving Scholars Out of Higher Ed: The high cost of child and elder care are driving scholars out of academe.”

 

 

Emily C. Bloom does not know it, but the problem is not merely the failing health system in the United States. It is about how society does politics to get decision-makers to actually care. The solutions are there, if only decision-makers cared enough about the abuse of our economy.

 

 

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-caregiving-crisis-is-not-going-away?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_10586484_nl_Academe-Today_date_20240729&sra=true

 

 

 

 

 

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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