Reconfigurations of Care under Austerity

“紧缩下的护理重构”是一个原创和及时的项目，源于我在2015年7月至2017年1月期间在希腊雅典一个自发组织的社会团结诊所进行的长期民族志实地考察。在经济危机的关键时期，公共医疗部门经历了严重的紧缩计划，在此期间，从2010年开始，越来越多的希腊公民发现他们的医疗需求得不到满足。社会团结诊所代表了当地对经济危机的自发反应：它们试图弥补国家在经济紧缩的最初几年无法提供的东西。在这种基层提供护理的过程中，社会团结诊所动员了当地和文化上关于护理和生物医学的想法。虽然社会科学研究主要侧重于志愿服务和团结的积极方面，但迄今为止，免费提供药品的不利社会和医疗影响一直被忽视。该项目揭示了隐藏在不同类别药物的流通和消费背后的微观护理政治，并探讨了免费药物的获得如何日益塑造人们对药物的依赖，依从性和依赖性。基于我以前在学术出版物上的经验，并受益于我作为插图画家和平面艺术家的技能，我将联合收割机结合标准的学术成果（例如专题论文，文章）与创新的民族志媒体（图形民族志），以普及关键发现，并最大限度地提高我的研究的影响，为希腊当地观众（专业人士和志愿者在社会诊所和个人参与基层团结运动）的利益。我将进一步寻求机会，分享使用艺术品在学术界产生影响的好处。我将利用SENSS DTP在东南部建立的网络，将对多模态民族志感兴趣的早期职业研究人员聚集在一起。我致力于提供关于替代媒体的实用和方法培训，以进行有影响力的传播，并与更广泛的研究人员和学者分享我的知识和经验。

'Reconfigurations of Care under Austerity' is an original and timely project that stems from long-term ethnographic fieldwork I conducted between July 2015 and January 2017 in a self-organised social clinic of solidarity in Athens, Greece. In the critical period of the economic crisis, the public healthcare sector underwent a severe retrenchment programme during which time, starting in 2010, more and more Greek citizens found their medical needs unmet. The social clinics of solidarity represent a local, spontaneous response to the economic crisis: they try to compensate for what the state has been unable to provide during the first years of economic austerity. In such grassroots provision of care, the social clinics of solidarity mobilise local and culturally inflected ideas about care and biomedicine. While social scientific research has mainly focused on the positive dimension of volunteering and solidarity, the adverse social and medical effects of free provision of pharmaceuticals have been so far overlooked. The project sheds light onto the micropolitics of care hidden behind the circulation and consumption of different classes of medication and explores how access to free medicine has increasingly shaped people's reliance on, compliance with, and dependence on pharmaceuticals.Building on my previous experience with academic publications and benefitting from my skills as an illustrator and graphic artist, I will combine standard academic outputs (e.g. monograph, articles) with innovative ethnographic media (graphic ethnography) to popularise key findings and maximise the impact of my research for the benefit of local audiences in Greece (professionals and volunteers in the social clinics and individuals involved in grassroots solidarity movements). I will further pursue opportunities to share the benefits of using artwork to generate impact within the academic community. I am to use the network established by the SeNSS DTP in the Southeast to bring together early-career researchers interested in multimodal ethnography. I am committed both to providing practical and methodological training on alternative media for impactful dissemination and sharing my knowledge and experience with a wider community of researchers and scholars.