Browsing by Subject "care"

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    Collective Care: Rethinking Societal Values and Envisioning Care as a Public Good
    (2023) Holman, Tess Korbesmeyer
    This paper advocates for a shift in societal values and policies towards prioritizing care as a public good, rather than relying on individual responsibility and acts of altruism to fill gaps in social services. It discusses how care, as a fundamental aspect of human nature, can be recognized and supported as a public good through policy, governance, and community initiatives. It explores the concept of communities that work together cooperatively to provide care as a means of addressing societal issues and promoting well-being. Using case studies from around the world, this paper challenges the U.S. to shift the paradigm toward valuing care as a collective responsibility.
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    Lifemaking alongside Death: Violence, Care and the Everyday in Trans communities in India
    (2022-06) Bhattacharya, Sayan
    How do transgender communities disrupt and exceed the overdeterminations of their lives by structural oppression and death? My research investigates this question through a granular attention to the everyday of transgender life worlds in India. Despite the decriminalization of homosexuality and state recognition of the right to gender expression, transphobia, medical negligence, murders and suicides are still the daily realities that trans communities are forced to confront. My dissertation project, Lifemaking alongside Death: Violence, Care and the Everyday in Trans Communities in India, argues that trans communities devise various improvisatory and innovative strategies to make life in an environment signified by violence. I stage conversations between anthropologies of the everyday, trans and queer literatures on care and anti-caste scholarship to study the efforts needed to reproduce an everyday that can be inhabited. These effortful strategies range from gestures that seek pleasure, negotiations with the nation state on demands of welfare to the performance of care labor for each other and devising dark humour on death that help trans people not only endure violence but also to refuse its overdeterminations of trans life.
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    Negotiating Responsibility: Ethics of Choice and Care in Postsocialist Oncology Wards in Serbia
    (2023-04) Milic Kolarevic, Milica
    This dissertation problematizes the, often taken for granted, assumptions about individual agency in the realms of the body, disease and medicine. I show that ethics of care, as framed in contemporary Serbian postsocialist context, serves as a unique example of simultaneously coexisting ideas about the assumed neoliberal agency and imagined socialist obedience as both equally necessary for navigating the complex landscape of rapidly privatizing health care in Serbia. To this end, I elaborate concrete interactions occurring in Serbian oncology clinics in order to illuminate the intersections among state and global politics; politicaland legal transformations; and the formal and informal strategies patients and doctors employ on behalf of personal and collective interests. Here, there is a commitment to a complex understanding of ethics of care as people work to navigate the transition from socialism that embodies longstanding ideas about state and citizenship, marked by tropes of, respectively, patronship and obedience to an imagined neoliberal capitalist future articulated in terms of individual responsibility and agency. Finally, I show that the storytelling practice of using nostalgia and resignation as a backdrop for describing hope and hopelessness, marks one of the fundamental tools used to embody “Serbianness” - the skill of melancholic letting go and grieving the lost, both past and future, opportunities.