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Abstract
This paper responds to the call for more Linguistic Landscape research that engages with prefigurative politics. Using Maginhawa Community Pantry (MCP) as a case study, the paper explores how this social movement emerges as a semiotic landscape of radical care in a time of crisis. The analysis is twofold. First, I examine the pantry’s material objects, linguistic signs, and spatial arrangements to make visible the semiotic enactments of care. Second, I argue that these acts of care are neither moral sentiments nor romantic dispositions but radical responses to the pandemic. This radical care, I propose, defines and characterizes the prefigurative politics of MCP. Overall, the study de-romanticizes the affect of care, revealing its political dimension and its capacity to carve out an alternative social arrangement amid precarious times.
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