Notion Of Care Research Articles

Reinventing Housing Care: Environmental Negotiations Made in Congregate Settings During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted an urgent reconsideration of space and place within congregate housing. Research has only underscored the need for health-promoting physical alterations to residential environments (Peters & Halleran, 2020), but also generated lasting questions about the relationships between congregate environments and their residents, visitors, and workforce —among them, what ways can environments be negotiated to reduce risk (Dosa et al., 2020)? How can environments enact care for formal caregivers (Chen & Chavalier, 2021)? Who might be challenged by this care which may question the dangers associated with proximity (Lynn, 2020)? This symposium focuses on the ways stakeholders within congregate housing observed, related to, and negotiated changes to space and place during the pandemic. Paper 1 presents an organizational case study investigating provider perspectives of how housing and healthcare responses to COVID have shaped palliative care with unhoused patients during the pandemic. Paper 2 highlights the collaborative work of a multi-sector coalition working to address timely needs of residents in low-income senior buildings. Paper 3 reflects on the formation of a cross-national senior housing network and the interdisciplinary exchange of best practices and policy recommendations that emerged. The collective findings of these papers challenge previous notions of care in congregate environments, illuminate how provider networks respond to crises and share emergent knowledge, and consider how institutional decisions about the pandemic have re-placed and re-spaced provider and patient experiences. This symposium offers observations and strategies that may assist in envisioning successful congregate care during COVID-19 and beyond.

Stakeholder perspectives on ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps

Mountain lakes are affected by anthropogenic use and global change, which necessitates management strategies to ensure their conservation and provision of ecosystem services (ES). However, research on ES of mountain lakes is scarce and related stakeholder perspectives remain unexplored. This study identifies key ES of mountain lakes and explores how stakeholders perceive the importance of these ES and their contributions to human well-being. A mixed-methods approach based on socio-cultural valuation methods was adopted consulting diverse stakeholders from governmental, economic, research, and public sectors in South Tyrol (Italy) in the Central European Alps. The results indicate that the highest importance was attributed to the ES maintaining habitats as well as aesthetic value, followed by surface water, outdoor recreation, and representation & entertainment. Stakeholders’ perspectives on these ES were multi-faceted covering diverse benefits, senses of place as well as notions of care and stewardship, but also negative perceptions and trade-offs related to cultural ES emerged. We discuss these findings outlining implications for research and practice. Overall, this study demonstrates the potential of participatory and socio-cultural assessment approaches to foster context-specific ES understanding and presents a first step towards the integrative assessment of mountain lakes.

Framing Precarity Through Images of the Grievable Life of Children

In this article, I move forward the tradition of visuality, or visual studies, in art education in the following ways: I examine, criticize, and expand concepts that are fundamental to the largely ignored subgroup—early childhood art education. I extend the study of images and visuality to unpack current political apparatuses and affects experienced by the public nationwide. Finally, I grapple with competing notions of care and agency to rethink relationality as a pedagogical possibility.

Theorizing feminist ethics of care in early childhood practice: Possibilities and danger. By RachelLangford (Ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. ISBN 978‐1‐3500‐6747‐9; 232 pages; price £85.50 (hardback), £26.09 (paperback)

This is an important and timely book that contributes to debates on the importance of care in Early Childhood. It is the third book in the series curated by Professor Jayne Osgood and Professor Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw entitled Feminist Thought in Childhood Research. The chapters include international perspectives with scholars drawn from interdisciplinary fields including, education studies, sociology, critical disability studies, social care, philosophy, social pedagogy and arts-based backgrounds. There have been long-standing debates about the dichotomies of education and care. This has included the type of workforce that might meet the needs of children, and policy focussing on a ‘school ready child’ (Fairchild & Mikuska, 2021). The contested nature of care in Early Childhood is the core focus of this book where educators need to balance the demands of professionalism, pedagogy and practice, along with deficit perceptions of the work from policy-makers and the wider population (Langford, 2019). The pressing need for this book mirrors the call for a more egalitarian vision of caring practices (The Care Collective, 2020). This also chimes with Matters of Care where Puig de la Bellacasa (2017: 7) notes that care and ethics are intertwined as ‘a political commitment’, needing a critical eye and focussing on feminist traditions which avoid any normative essentialized and gendered framings of care. In the book's introduction there is a problematization of care and the links to gendered, maternal, exploitative perceptions of care and professionalism. Throughout the book, the turn to feminist theory builds on the germinal work by feminist scholars that challenges masculinist modes of knowledge production. Langford (2019) argues that employing feminist theory, scholarship and practices provides an alternative to the neoliberal perspectives of contemporary care to highlight political, contextual, and emotional nuances in caring experiences. The book is divided into three sections: major developments in ethics of care scholarship which brings careful conversations to the foreground; the ways educators in training can be prepared to develop feminist ethical caring practices; and the materialization of care practices in Early Childhood post training. The first section highlights the history of care scholarship as a site of contestation and transformation. This includes how posthuman and poststructural theory articulates an ethics of encounter encompassing human and non-human bodies. The notion of care as an ethical encounter and orientation is a thread in this section. This is used to unpick and understand how caring subjectivities have been produced and constructed, sometimes reifying a particular version of care. The authors offer alternative perspectives on how understanding historical and contemporary care scholarship can shape different ways to think about caring practices. Preparing educators is the focus of the second section, as the authors consider international reflections of caring practices taught in Higher Education. The acceleration in Higher Education's measurement of knowledge accumulation has bought a call for a more slow scholarship. Here slow scholarship ‘is about deceleration as a means to create focused and nurturing ways of working against damaging conditions’ (Taylor, 2020: 266). These types of slow practices challenge mind: body dualisms are often associated with care and caring practices when working with young children (Fairchild & Mikuska, 2021). The chapters call for an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach with clear links to practice that can provide ways for care to be reconceptualized as an act of social justice. The final section illuminates what occurs in Early Childhood settings. These chapters draw on a range of theoretical positions to consider how care is materialized and operationalized in practice. The authors articulated how the ethical and political nature of care is an intrinsic part of Early Childhood educators work, alongside supporting children to develop their own caring and autonomous selves. Overall this book is an essential addition to the discussions and debates surrounding education and care in Early Childhood. This is important as considering care in contemporary society is an imperative where neoliberalism, nationalism and the challenges faced by the Covid-19 pandemic envelope societies. Foregrounding the importance of care and careful practices ‘is a social capacity and activity necessary for the welfare and flourishing of life’ (The Care Collective, 2020: 5) and this volume joins wider conversations and debates on care and caring.

COVID-19 in Rural India, Algeria, and Morocco: A Feminist Analysis of Small-Scale Farmers' and Agricultural Laborers' Experiences and Inventive Practices

In this paper we present a situated analysis of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life of small-scale farmers and agricultural laborers in India, Algeria, and Morocco. We draw on data collected through phone interviews since April 2020. Inspired by feminist scholars, we analyze our findings thinking with—and entangling—the concepts of intersectionality, resilience and care. We firstly document the material impacts of the lockdown measures, focusing particularly on the experiences of single women farmers and laborers, whose livelihood and well-being have been notably compromised. Secondly, we unfold how different agricultural actors have come up with inventive ways to respond to the unexpected situation which they are facing. In doing so, we highlight the importance of considering the multiple and entangled socionatural challenges, uncertainties, and marginalizations that different agricultural actors experience, as well as the transformative potential of their inventive practices, which are often motivated and informed by notions of care.

A good life? A good death? Reconciling care and harm in animal research

ABSTRACT Laboratory animal science represents a challenging and controversial form of human-animal relations because its practice involves the deliberate and inadvertent harming and killing of animals. Consequently, animal research has formed the focus of intense ethical concern and regulation within the UK, in order to minimize the suffering and pain experienced by those animals whose living bodies model human diseases amongst other things. This paper draws on longitudinal ethnographic research and in-depth interviews undertaken with junior laboratory animal technicians (ATs) in UK universities between 2013 and 2015, plus insights from interviews with key stakeholders in laboratory animal welfare. In our analysis, we examine four key dimensions of care work in laboratory animal research: (i) the specific skills and sensitivities required; (ii) the role of previous experiences of animal care; (iii) the influence of institutional and affective environments and (iv) experiences of killing. We propose that different notions of care are enacted alongside, not only permitted levels of harm inflicted on research animals following research protocols, but also harms to ATs in the processes of caring and killing animals. Concluding, we argue for greater articulation of the coexistence of care and harms across debates in geography about care and human-animal relations.

The Sprouting Farms: You Are What You Grow

In 2017, the Singaporean government unveiled the Farm Transformation Map, a highly technology-driven initiative that intends to change its current, near-total dependence on imported food. The plan focuses on the prospect of high-productivity farming—in particular, integrated vertical, indoor, and intensive urban farming—as a possible solution to geopolitical uncertainty, intense urbanisation, and environmental degradation. What to farm (or not) and how to farm has long mediated social, cultural, political, and environmental relations. Following the stories of a few small- to medium-scale urban farms, including rooftop gardens, community farms, and organic farms, in this future-oriented city polis, this article explores the rise of urban farming through the politics of localism and the notion of care. How has localism, in some contexts, been reduced to a narrow sense of geographic location? What is being cared for in and through farming in urban locales? How might this type of farming transform and shape bio-cultural, social-technological relations within humans, and between humans and non-humans? More importantly, this article explores how urban agriculture might forge a kind of thick localism rooted in situated care as it carries out social missions, experimenting with and subverting the dominant imaginary of industrial farming.

Antecipação, complexidade narrativa e o melodrama paternal em This is Us

Este artigo pretende apontar reconfigurações na matriz do melodrama através de um estudo de caso da série This is us (2016 - ). Partindo da análise da obra, observamos como as tradições do melodrama maternal são atualizadas no que propomos definir como melodrama paternal, construindo uma imagem de masculinidade que recupera noções de cuidado e sensibilidade, restituindo valores familiares. Apontamos também como esta série de sucesso se apresenta como inovadora através do uso intenso do controle temporal em uma narrativa não linear que, também neste ponto, acaba por atualizar outro elemento estético fundamental do melodrama: a antecipação.

Signs Special Issue: Complexities of Care and Caring

Previous articleNext article FreeCall for PapersSigns Special Issue: Complexities of Care and CaringPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreOver the past four decades of feminist scholarship and practice, notions of care and caring, as noun and verb, have had great traction across disciplinary divides, spurring debate while challenging binaries of equality and difference, public and private, the cold hand of the market and the warmth of home, the rational and irrational, and paid and unpaid labor. We write this call at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid the groundswell of support for #BlackLivesMatter, when indeed the need for renewing such challenges is dramatically clear. Our needs for care, the reality of our embodied vulnerabilities and interdependence, stand in stark relief against the cruel indifference of neoliberal nation-states and global superpowers, with great gulfs in whose needs for care, whose caring labor, and whose fragility we value. Yet at the same time, notions of care and relationality have traveled far from their critical or radical roots in differing strands of feminism, and it is timely to reassess. This special issue invites such reassessment across disciplines, broadly questioning and complicating feminist histories, debates, and politics of care and caring. We also welcome submissions exploring and complicating cultural work on representations of care and caring, whether from the arts, media and popular culture, or literature or literary studies.The editors invite essays that consider, but are by no means limited to, the following questions:• What work have concepts of care and caring done in feminist scholarship? And in praxis, for groups, solidarities, and activist orientations? What histories and debates should be revisited or rethought?• Can care and caring still function as critical or radical concepts? Is care still gendered? Or racialized in differing national contexts?• Can self-care still be radical? Black feminist Audre Lorde wrote, in her 1988 book A Burst of Light, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.” But in a neoliberal age, is it hopelessly individualized, domesticated, and commodified? Subject to cultural appropriation?• Are frameworks of care and caring useful for environmental or interspecies politics?• How have feminists across disciplines and in conversation with critical race and disability scholars understood the relation (or the entanglement) of care and caring to affect, labor, power, harm, and violence? What are the outer limits of the concept?• What are the histories and futures of global care chains, of marginalized care workers and their struggles in the context of increased structural inequalities?• How have care and caring been represented, debated, theorized, or problematized in literature, theater, dance, art, film, and/or popular culture? Are there emergent feminist representations or performances of care?• What is the relation of feminist scholarship on care and caring to law, economics, and philosophy? To notions of autonomy and rights? To theories of the state?• Can we have caring technologies? Do technologies facilitate caring or further commodification, individualization, and surveillance?Signs particularly encourages transdisciplinary and transnational essays that address substantive feminist questions, debates, and controversies without employing disciplinary or academic jargon. We seek essays that are passionate, strongly argued, and willing to take risks.The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2021. The issue will be guest edited by Linda Blum, professor of sociology, Northeastern University; Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University; and Amber Jamilla Musser, professor of American studies, George Washington University.Please submit full manuscripts electronically through Signs’ Editorial Manager system at http://signs.edmgr.com. Manuscripts must conform to the guidelines for submission available at http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/author-guidelines/. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 46, Number 2Winter 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/710819 © 2020 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

On trying to be collective

In this article we ask in what way can the notion of care, collectivizing and the collective become a primary part of contemporary art practice? And further, what types of art practices address these central tenets of democracy? We do this by reflecting on the political potential of care and its importance as a tool for achieving an equal society. Uniting the action of care and collectivity, we conclude that together these two undertakings represent a political force of commoning within the public sphere. Utilizing the writing of Beech, Hutchinson and Timberlake, who argue for collectivism over collaboration as a way towards societal change, we reflect upon the political implications for art when artists work collectively. We consider the practices and function of other art collectives examining their key purpose for acting collectively. We employ our previous practice as the Freee Art Collective, as well as our more recent work as the Partisan Social Club to consider in what ways our practice can be deemed collective.

Landscapes of care and despair for rural youth \u2013 a qualitative study in the northern Swedish \u2018periphery\u2019

BackgroundThis study emerges as a response to the lack of youth perspectives when it comes to discussions about access to and experiences of health and social services in rural areas. It subsequently contributes to the literature by positioning young people at the centre of this debate, and by taking a more holistic approach to the topic than is typically the case. Specifically, based on the idea that a good life in proper health for young people may be contingent on notions of care that are bounded up in multi-layered social and spatial environments, the aim of this study was to explore what characterises ‘landscapes of care’ for rural youth.MethodsIn this qualitative study, the participants included young people and professionals residing in five diverse areas across the northern Swedish ‘peripheral’ inland. Individual interviews (16 in total) and focus group discussions (26 in total) were conducted with 63 youth aged 14–27 years and with 44 professionals operating across sectors such as health centres, school health, integration units, youth clinics and youth clubs. Following an emergent design and using thematic analysis, we developed one main theme, ‘landscapes of care and despair’, comprising the two themes: ‘(dis)connectedness’ and ‘extended support or troubling gaps’.ResultsThe findings illustrate how various health-promoting and potentially harmful aspects acting at structural, organisational and interpersonal levels contributed to dynamic landscapes characterised simultaneously by care and despair. In particular, our study shows how rural youths’ feelings of belongingness to people and places coupled with opportunities to participate in society and access practical and emotional support appear to facilitate their care within rural settings. However, although the results indicate that some in the diverse group of rural youth were cared for and about, a negative picture was painted in parallel. These aspects of despair included youths’ senses of exclusion and marginalisation, degrading attitudes towards them and their problems, as well as recurrent gaps in the provision and practices of care.ConclusionsTo gain a more comprehensive understanding about the health of rural youth, this study highlights the benefits investigating ‘care-ful’ and ‘uncaring’ aspects bounded up in dynamic and multi-layered landscapes.

Accounting for care within human geography

Drawing on in‐depth interviews with first‐time parents in the city of Oxford, we offer a critical examination of how notions of care can transform practices of research and analysis within human geography. We argue care offers a committed practice of knowing and relating within research where data collection, analysis, and scholarly narratives are all implicated in the remaking of everyday worlds that, in turn, reveal a new terrain of political potentiality.

The voice of community: self-care from the perspective of vulnerable populations. Brazil, 2019

Abstract Background Social vulnerabilities influence the beliefs and practices of people about care, resulting in worse health rates, including those related to self-care. Multidimensional care and the complexity of social vulnerability converge to lack of health resources and human rights violations. In this context, how do people perceive practices that promote individual and collective well-being? Methods Using qualitative methods, theoretically based on the notion of care as a way of being-in-the-world, according to Leonardo Boff. We conduct 24 interviews with participants belonged to the Parelheiros region and from Non-Governmental Organizations, in a Center of Excellence in Early Childhood in São Paulo. For data collection, focus group technique was used with material transcribed, and analyzed with thematic content analysis. Results Two themes emerged (1) Meanings of self-care: related to sense of agency, self- perception and self-regulation (2) Practices to promote self-care: related to promote friendship, voluntary work, psychotherapies, spirituality, breathing exercise, emotional regulation and dialogue. Conclusions Social vulnerability sometimes normalize lack of self-care in people's daily lives and work, due to perpetual social injustice The perceptions of self-care are broad and plural, based on the concept of care as a particular way of being-in-the-world. These results have implications in the field of public health, with regard to teaching and health promotion practices, reflecting the living conditions of social subjects. Key messages The research contributes to reflection on how the vulnerable populations, especially in the contexts of social and political crisis, organize themselves to care for their own through self-care. Promotion of individual and collective well-being in social vulnerability scenarios is in line with Global Health and involves reflecting on sustainable interdependence to maintain life with equity.

Ethical dilemmas at work placements in teacher education

ABSTRACT Teacher education involves encountering ethical dilemmas connected to teaching. Student teachers’ ethical dilemmas sometimes occur when ideals clash with experiences. The current study focuses on the challenges experienced by student teachers during work placement education. The aim of the study was to investigate ethical dilemmas student teachers experienced during work placement education, using the sensitising concept of the notion of care. The data consist of semi-structured interviews from 22 student teachers and were analysed using a constructivist grounded theory framework. The findings show that the ethical dilemmas reported by the student teachers regarded two influential agents in work placement education: pupils and teachers. Concerning pupils, the dilemmas involved encountering pupils living in poor circumstances as well as experiencing aggression from and among pupils. When it comes to teachers, dilemmatic experiences stemmed from teachers who were disillusioned and derogatory talk in the teacher lounge.

Examining the Expectations of Parents of Young Children with Disabilities from a “Care” Perspective

ABSTRACT The terms parent-teacher relationship and partnership are used frequently throughout the literature in early childhood education and special education. Their prevalence may imply that we know more than we really do about what takes place between families and teachers, and how these parties cultivate and sustain relationships with one another. This qualitative study examined parents’ expectations of their journey into special education and their relationships with special education preschool teachers. Data collection methods for this study included semi-structured interviews and document analysis. Findings from the study inform early childhood special education practitioners about how they might view the notions of care and expectations, and in turn develop positive and caring relationships with the families of their young students with disabilities. Furthermore, this study raises additional questions that researchers might continue to investigate in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of how Noddings’ ethic of care might be used as a framework for applying family-centered practices in early childhood special education.

Who cares for carers? How discursive constructions of care work marginalized early childhood educators in Ontario’s 2018 provincial election

In the Canadian province of Ontario, the early childhood education and care workforce continues to be undervalued, underpaid and burdened with challenging working conditions. Drawing on Fairclough and Lazar, this study employed a feminist critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses of care work present in the 2018 childcare platforms of three major parties: the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party and the Progressive Conservative Party. This critical discourse analysis provided an opportunity to consider the absence and presence of early childhood education and care discourses in the election platforms, and the consequences this has for the advancement of the workforce. The findings indicate that the early childhood education and care workforce remained largely invisible in the 2018 childcare platforms. When present, educators were often constructed as components of the early childhood education and care system’s stability. In addition, a discourse of ‘maternal care burden’ emerged in some platforms, which initially suggested progressive recognition of the gendered reality of care and care work for women in Ontario. However, the critical discourse analysis illuminates that the maternal-care-burden discourse, while suggesting that mothers are freed to enter the paid workforce, actually reinforces notions of care as women’s work. As well, this discourse further marginalizes the early childhood education and care workforce by downloading one group’s caring responsibilities to a new group of invisible carers – early childhood educators. In light of these findings, the need to disrupt discourses that continue to devalue the early childhood education and care workforce is considered as researchers and advocates seek to assert care labour as an essential public responsibility and a critical concern in political dialogue.

Boundless care: Lacoste’s liturgical being refigured through Heidegger’s Sorge

ABSTRACT Taking Jean-Yves Lacoste’s account of liturgy as a point of departure, this essay examines Lacoste’s view of care. Lacoste thinks that care is bracketed or suspended in liturgy. To make this point, Lacoste discusses Martin Heidegger’s notions of world and care. However, Lacoste fails to make adequate distinctions between Heidegger’s notions of care (Sorge) and concern (Besorgen). The crux of this essay is my explanation of the significance that the difference between care and concern makes for our understanding of the meaning of liturgical practices and their pertinence to our worldly lives. I point out the kinds of philosophical ideas that Lacoste inherits from Heidegger and then I explain where Lacoste and Heidegger part ways and why Lacoste lacks sufficient conceptual grounds for his rejection of care as an element of liturgy.

Therapy, Care, and the Hermeneutics of the Self: A Foucauldian Approach

ABSTRACT The notion of care is a fundamental and constitutive element of any conception of therapy. It is present throughout history in diverse therapeutic practices, from the philosophical schools of antiquity, to Christian ascetic rituals and exercises, to modern psychotherapeutic, psychoanalytic and psychiatric discourses. These practices are in turn based on certain technologies of the self, which shape and determine the notion of care at stake in each case. Among these technologies, confession – the evolution and history of which Foucault calls ‘hermeneutics of the self’ – seems to have gone through a particularly complex evolution, making it especially relevant to the various permutations of therapy and care. This article tracks Foucault’s genealogy of the practice of confession through the three main therapeutic configurations in the history of Western culture (ancient philosophy, the Christian religion, the early psy-sciences), in order to 1) bring to light the interconnections and reciprocal influences between the hermeneutics of the self and the notions of care and therapy; 2) identify both the differences and the similarities between these three versions of therapy and care; and 3) evaluate the development in question and discuss the current relevance of Foucault’s criticism for contemporary psychotherapeutic practices of the self.

The Muslim orphan paradox: Muslim Americans negotiating the Islamic law of adoption

While the care of orphans is a much lauded form of giving, precisely what care should look like is highly contested. This is due, in large part, to a consensus among the Islamic legal schools that adoption (tabanni) is prohibited. This article explores contemporary Muslim Americans’ negotiations of Islamic law to find ethical ways to care for non-biological children within their household. Through Muslim American collaborations and contentions over the regulation of orphan care, including the interventions of Islamic scholars and scholar-activists, as well as the intimate reflections of adoptive and foster parents, I demonstrate how Islamic law is not the exclusive domain of jurists, but of Muslim American communities forging new notions of care, kinship, and family as they draw together distinct legal bodies, traditions, and values.

Percepção e práticas de cuidadores de lares de infância e juventude sobre saúde bucal no município de Belém, Brasil

Children who are not part of a socially structured family deserve special attention regarding oral health care.Investigating notions of care and hygiene practices of caregivers becomes essential for understanding the quality ofcharitable assistance provided in shelters. Thus, this study evaluated oral health knowledge and practices of sheltercaregivers based on education and oral health activities. The sample consisted of caregivers associated with thefour unique public institutions for social support of children and adolescents in the city of Belem, PA, Brazil. Datawere collected through a questionnaire covering basic notions of oral health and dental care and were subjectedto statistical analysis using the Chi-squared test and Fisher’s exact test, adopting α = 0.05. The results indicated anassociation between the variables “prior instruction in brushing techniques” and “oral health promotion” (p= 0.011),showing a higher frequency of brushing guidance among caregivers who had previously received instructions on suchtechniques and between the variables “education level” and “development of oral health activities” (p= 0.0461). Thisrevealed that access to higher education implied a greater promotion of oral health activities. Therefore, it was possibleto verify that the caregivers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation to oral health are correlated, and havingeducational knowledge and attitudes are favorable indicators for health promotion practices.