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Dear all,
(apologies for cross-posting)
Please consider submitting a paper to our panel at the London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) on 'Thinking critically with care'. Deadline for submissions: 25th March.
Thinking critically with care
Stream organisers: Fay Dennis, Jade Henry and Emily Jay Nicholls
A (re)turn to care is occurring across the social sciences and humanities. Responding to Maria Puig de la Bellacasa’s (2017) call to attend to ‘matters of care’ in Science and Technology Studies (STS), this panel asks what it means to think critically with care.
While attending to neglected affective labours has been an enduring feminist concern, care is employed here as an embodied, sociomaterial ‘ecology of practice’ (Stengers, 2005). So, to ‘think with care’ is to be actively involved in responding to and creating worlds (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2012). It is an ontological as well as an ethical and epistemological concern, by which to care is to attend to, and affirm relations with, others, to live ‘as well as possible’ (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017). However, to associate care solely with positive affirmation and progress is to run the risk of dislocating seemingly caring relations from their unequal pasts. Following Murphy’s (2015) call for ‘a vexation of care’, and in relation to the non-innocence of care, we employ and encourage a critical and reflexive engagement with care in order to also consider the sociomaterial generativity of a lack of care – of discomfort and critique.
We invite contributors to the stream to ask of their research assemblages, networks and attachments – technologies, policies, design innovations and environments, healthcare settings – not only what or whom is being cared for, but by who? And who or what decides? How does thinking with care contest or contribute to relations of power by which sometimes a lack of care is an act of care?
Staging an interdisciplinary feminist and queer attempt to think critically with care, we would be particularly interested in receiving proposals that demonstrate commitments to:
* Situated and indigenous design
* Queer studies
* Decolonialising health and medicine
* Inventive and speculative research methods
* New materialisms and ‘ethico-onto-epistemologies’
* Disrupting environmental hazards and ‘chemical infrastructures’
* Technological innovations in care and its critique
* Rethinking healthcare treatment and policy
Please see the LCCT website for more details: http://londoncritical.org/
Dr Fay Dennis
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Social Sciences & Bioethics
Department of Sociology
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