Articulating mobile gendered landscapes: Thinking with care cultures

Health geographies III – Landscapes of care

“…For example, Chen et al (2022) explore how care for people with intellectual disabilities in institutionalized spaces is framed and enacted through various culture-specific paradigms that while attentive and respectful, are also paradoxically disabling (such as the charity paradigm or fictive kinships of Confucian care). In a good example of how care can be simultaneously immediately proximate and distal (Milligan and Wiles, 2010), Ivanova (2022) employs ethnographic work with Bulgarian temporary migrant carers working in Italy who ‘care in less-than-caring landscapes’ to understand the complex ways they make sense of their roles and their caring practices, both as mothers who are physically distanced from their children so as to provide resources for them, and as paid carers to individual older people in a globally situated market for care. Yu and Rosenberg (2022) likewise interrogate assumptions about individual choice and independence in ageing in place, arguing these are often unhelpful in other cultural contexts.…”