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Kathleen Lynch

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Care and Capitalism is dedicated to all those who work and struggle to promote a more loving, caring and socially just world, and to the memory of my mother, Molly Neylon-Lynch, who loved and cared for so many throughout her long life of 104 years.

Financial support from the Irish Research Council (IRC) Advanced Research Project Grant (Advanced RPG) (RPG2013-2) to research Equality of Opportunity in Practice: Studies in Working, Learning and Caring provided me with the opportunity to write this book. I am deeply grateful to the IRC for what Bourdieu termed ‘the freedom from necessity to write’.

I also want to express my appreciation to the many universities that invited me to speak on affective equality and social justice in recent years, as these visits both enriched and challenged my thinking: the Autonomous University of Barcelona, City University of New York, Glasgow Caledonian University, the WISE Centre for Economic Justice, the Havens-Wright Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Universities of Linköping and Örebro, Sweden, University of Melbourne, University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece, University of Oulu, Finland, University of Oxford, UK, Peking University, Beijing, and University of Siegen, Germany.

The deep concern and frustration that I have seen, felt and documented through research on classed/raced/ableist and other inequalities in education over several decades (in The Hidden Curriculum , 1989, Equality in Education , 1999, and with Anne Lodge in Equality and Power in Schools , 2002), and on the gendering of injustices under neoliberalism (with Bernie Grummell and Dympna Devine in New Managerialism in Education: Commercialization, Carelessness and Gender , 2012), demanded that I write about the injustices and carelessness of neoliberalism in greater depth, and in ways that not only examined its harms but identified ways of challenging them.

The book builds on earlier work with John Baker, Sara Cantillon and Judy Walsh in Equality: From Theory to Action (2004) and particularly in Affective Equality (2009). When Affective Equality: Love, Care and Injustice was published first in English in 2009, it generated an unexpected level of interest. It was translated into Spanish in 2014, and into Korean by Prof. Dr Soon-Won Kang of Hanshin University in 2017. It seemed to speak to people’s need to talk and read about things that mattered to them in their everyday lives, and how institutions and structures often impeded them in their love, care and solidarity work. I wanted to re-engage with the many issues that Affective Equality raised, in terms of understanding inequality and social injustice, and the politics of social change.

The encouragement and support I received from several colleagues in University College Dublin were also very important to me. I would like to thank the staff in the UCD School of Education, and especially Dympna Devine, for their ongoing support. I am really appreciative of the support of recent doctoral colleagues, Luciana Lolich, Majella Mulkeen, Meabh Savage and Dorothy Conaghan, who were pursuing studies in related fields, and of inspiring postdoctoral fellows with whom I worked when writing, John Bissett, Maria Ivancheva, Manolis Kalaitzake and Monica O’Connor. Thank you all for engaging conversations and comments at seminars, and chats over coffee and tea.