Abstract
Recent events such as the COVID 19 pandemic and racist police violence have contributed to a heightened awareness about the nature and origin of health care disparities. Nurses are portrayed as heroes while expected to work with no equipment, and nursing organizations release antiracist statements, while little is done to address the underlying conditions that cause disparities. In this paper, we engage with ideas from The Invisible Committee and other theorists to suggest that nursing needs to develop new ways of thinking about both its past and its present politics if any chance of a radical new future is possible.
Highlights
We began this paper in mid 2019 in preparation for the International Philosophy of Nursing Society/Philosophy in the Nurses World conference in Victoria, Canada
On in the pandemic, Judith Butler observed the unequal consequences of the “lockdown” for those whose loss of lives did not count because they had been abandoned by society long before the onset of the COVID
The idea of abolishing systems as they currently exist is central to the work of The Invisible Committee, who have spelled out their approach to insurrection in numerous works since the uprisings across Europe, the so called Arab Spring and the many anti-racist insurrections all over the world beginning in the early 2000s.[37,38]
Summary
We began this paper in mid 2019 in preparation for the International Philosophy of Nursing Society/Philosophy in the Nurses World conference in Victoria, Canada. The day or the days in which this decision is taken are called crisimoi, the decisive days”.[7] The idea of crisis possesses an organic or processual character in medical catastrophic situations, suggesting “a natural process, a surge, a wave”- like process “as if by a violent natural force”.[8] In theology, “crisis is the Last Judgment pronounced by Christ at the end of times”.[7] In the late 19th century, economists developed a crisis theory and in the early 20th century, theories emerged around what were perceived as crises of cultures It is because of the ability of the term to be combined with other words and “the implicit slippage between them that the term “crisis” has been able to become such a powerful trope, gaining traction in the most diverse domains and discourses”.[9] with, or perhaps despite, its inflationary use, the term “crisis” has taken on an important function in the governing of our societies. We explore some of the concepts used by The Invisible Committee and the philosophical and theoretical threads they pull on to consider what it might mean to imagine a new “politics” of nursing for social justice
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