Why 'cultures of care'?
Why 'cultures of care'?
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为什么要“关怀文化”?
DOI:
10.1080/14649365.2022.2105938
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Greenhough B
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作者:
Greenhough B
Academic discussions of care have stressed the complexity of the concept of care (Fisher & Tronto, 1990), and the difficulty of defining care ‘needs’ and ‘good care’(Engster, 2007; Held, 2006; J. Tronto, 1987). Following the early work of feminists such as Noddings (2013) and Gilligan (1982), who argued for a revaluation of care work and skills, many have noted that care skills are widely seen as feminised. Studies have shown empirically that the social obligation to carry out caring tasks is strongly gendered and racialised (Fisher & Tronto, 1990; Yeandle et al., 2017), and noted that care work and care workers are socially undervalued in mutually reinforcing ways (Kearns & Reid-Henry, 2009). The work of J. Tronto (1987, 2005) has been a key influence, through its emphasis on care as dependent on particular affective skills and capacities, and through stressing that the objects of care include beings and entities beyond the human. Thus, in a much-cited definition Fisher and Tronto (1990, p. 40) suggest that care is ‘a species activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, continue and repair our world so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, ourselves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web’. This emphasis on the need to understand care as embedded within a richer context is one which resonates particularly well with geographical scholarship.Care has long been a topic of interest for geographers, as a particular object of analysis in the form of the provision of health services and care labour (see for example, Milligan 2000, Dyck et al., 2005; Hall, 2011; Power & Bartlett, 2019); as an exploration of particular forms of care such as friendship (Bowlby, 2011) and of the experiences of those who receive care (Wiles, 2011); as requiring attention to the different sites, scales and times at which care takes place, ranging from the transnational (cf Raghuram, 2012); to the urban (ER Power & Williams, 2020) and rural (Parr et al., 2004); to the interplay between the demands and norms of the ‘private’and ‘public’(cf., Bowlby, 2012; Bowlby et al., 2010; Dyck et al., 2005); and as the basis for developing a more ethical geography (Kearns & Reid-Henry, 2009; Lawson, 2007; Popke, 2006; Raghuram et al., 2009; Smith, 2000). Recently work has expanded beyond the focus on humans as objects of care to consider, for example, entities such as soils (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017) and nonhuman animals (Davies, 2012; Greenhough, 2011; Schuurmana & Franklin, 2018; Srinivasan, 2013), while Power (2019) and Power and Mee (2020) have suggested the ‘capacity to care’is generated and shaped through the intertwining of architectures and systems of governance and discourse in sociomaterial ‘infrastructures of care’.