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Call for papers "Care in Asia: beyond and across a clinic" Workshop
Date:
Monday, July 10, 2017
Workshop Call for papers "*Care in Asia: beyond and across a clinic*"

*Description:*
While care is widely discussed across feminist studies and anthropology, it
remains still undertheorized and subject to western-centric
conceptualizations, as some recent studies point out (Aulino 2016).
Frequently, explorations of care practices are limited to specific sites of
inquiry – medical institutions or domestic space. For instance, scholars
explore how care occurs at the clinics, and how it intertwines with
knowledge production, governance of bodies and subject formation. However,
in Asia (but to a large extent elsewhere as well), care is dispersed across
a complex terrain of healthcare ecologies. Firstly, anthropologists have
since long also been interested in care generated by relations, such as
kin. Secondly, numerous studies show that healing (and thus care) takes
place in and across diverse biomedical and ‘traditional’ medical
institutions. Still, in attempts to conceptualize it, care is often
designated as ‘self-care’; and familial or ‘traditional’ forms of care
often remain to be viewed as hindrances for hegemonic biomedical care.

This call for papers addresses scholars working on care in the Asian
region. The workshop invites participants to think about how care amidst
illnesses or disorders is diversified and extended beyond and across a
multiplicity of health institutions in Asia. For instance, how family care
intersects with institutional care, and how care becomes enmeshed in larger
relational projects among persons. Or, how care is shaped by a number of
institutions, that may be underlined by different forms of
medical/interventionist knowledge and health epistemologies, such as
‘unlicensed’ or ‘traditional’ practitioners. Rather than thinking of these
sites of care as incommensurable and generating conflicting and burdensome
situations, the workshop invites participants to address how diversified
care underlines overall patient/carer experience, and what forms of
knowledge it produces. At the same time, the workshop will open up
possibilities for reconceptualising care through an inquiry into coexistent
diversity of its sites and actors.

*Funding:* Limited travel funding is available for PhD and postdoc
scholars. The workshop is funded by the ADI - Asian Dynamics Initiative of
the University of Copenhagen.

*Submission guidelines:* abstract should be no longer than 150 words and
sent to [log in to unmask] In the application, please include
your name, email, formal affiliation and whether you would need partial
 travel funding or no.

*Deadline for abstract submission: July 10, 2017 *

*Date and Time*: September 28-29, 2017.
*Venue:* NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen.


Best wishes,

Emilija Zabiliute



*Emilija Zabiliute, PhD*
NIAS - Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen

"Living with others: subjectivity, relatedness and health among urban poor
in Delhi", PhD thesis, University of Copenhagen: Centre for Cross-Cultural
and Regional Studies, 2016.

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