Dear colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting. This is a reminder that the deadline to submit an abstract for our edited volume on chronicity and care is coming soon. Please send us ([log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]) your 500 word abstract by the 12th of October.
Please find below a description of the book and specific themes we would like you to address. We look forward to receiving your proposals.
Best wishes,
Melania and Laura
Chronicity and Care. Anthropological Insights into the Politics of Deservingness (Co-edited by Laura Montesi and Melania Calestani).
Description of the volume
The epidemiological transition towards chronic noncommunicable conditions and diseases was until recently considered a Global North phenomenon. However, the number of people living longer and burdened by disease and/or disability is increasing worldwide, challenging easy distinctions of the type. Moreover, the synergistic interactions between chronic and infectious ailments fuelled by social inequalities are questioning other epistemological divides such as the chronic/acute one. These biosocial challenges are being confronted by ever more fragile infrastructures of healthcare, declining welfare states and a rampant commodification of medical practices. In this context, assessing how people in need manage their chronic conditions is fundamental. This book explores the concept of “care” and how this is constructed by a range of different social actors. By engaging with theories in critical medical anthropology, the political economy of chronicity, and care ethics, it is interested in shedding light on practices of care as they unfold at the individual, family, neighbourhood, community and (trans)national level. Although care is a foundational character of life itself, the ways in which it is effected are highly problematic and indeed mirror politics of deservingness. Care can materialise as love and affection, but also as obligation, blackmail, and tyranny, or as a service or practice emplaced at someone else's detriment. We invite contributions from scholars and/or healthcare practitioners who see care as an assemblage of practices that intersect people, informal care networks, institutions and power knowledges. We are interested in ethnographically-based pieces that enquiry into the emic conceptualisations of care among carers and cared-for people living with long lasting health issues, revealing multiple natures of "care". Of utter importance is the contextualisation of emic experiences within larger settings of (un)care, with a constant look at the macropolitics of deservingness taking shape in unequal local/global orders, patterned by racialised, sexualised, and class-based hierarchies. By considering different kinds of practices and collectivities, the book explores what people value and prioritise in terms of their care and well-being. Potential contradictions between different orientations and models of care can shed light on broader issues surrounding perceptions of the self, the other and what it means to lead a ‘good life’. Finally, we are also open to contributions that dissect care policies insofar as the analysis is grounded in ethnography and is able to reveal the effects they have on people's life experiences and social arrangements. This can provide an important insight on the role and moral duty of the State in providing care as well as on how this may affect the nature of citizenship claims.
At the moment we are looking for contributions that engage with the following:
1. Practices of care as they unfold at the family, neighbourhood, community and (trans)national level especially within fragile infrastructures of healthcare. Tentative contributions may deal with:
-Family reorganisation
-Trans/intranational care and the racialisation of caregiving
-State, NGOs, charities interactions
2. Public health responses and how these may be at tension with the emic experiences of cared-for individuals. The latter must be contextualized within larger settings of (un)care, with a constant look at the macropolitics of deservingness taking shape in unequal local/global orders, characterised by racialised, sexualised, and class-based hierarchies. Tentative contributions may look at:
-Public health responses to long lasting health issues
-Policy regulation of life and death
-‘Vulnerable’ subjects, deservingness and compassion
Dr Melania Calestani, PhD, FHEA,
Lecturer in Research Methods,
School of Allied Health, Midwifery and Social Care,
Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education
Kingston and St.George’s
A joint enterprise of Kingston University and St.George’s,
University of London
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London, SW17 0RE
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