Poetics of Care: Remedies for Racial Capitalism Gone Viral

Girvan, Anita; Pardesi, Baljit; Bhandar, Davina; Nath, Nisha

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“…To trace the relevant relations undergirding COVID-19 transmission patterns means emphasising both distal and current mechanisms of persistent inequities central to urban ecologies. As Girvan et al (2020: 718) note, COVID-19 ‘extends beyond the present moment, enmeshed in histories of viral racism and colonialism’, or in other words, socio-scientific ideologies of racism that cemented slavery and indigenous corporeal and cultural genocide as necessary to US economic expansion. These ideologies, however, did not simply dissipate as time went on.…”

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“…The impacts of these abuses are intergenerational and extensive, including suppressed immune systems (Farquharson and Thornton, 2020; Melillo, 2020) which increase the risk of COVID-19 infection and of worse outcomes. As Girvan et al (2020: 718) put it, ‘Read through these relational webs of racial capitalism, the Covid-19 pandemic signals how some forms of human and nonhuman life are systemically devalued as “unproductive” and deserving/undeserving of care’.…”

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Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures

Atuk

Craddock

2022

Urban Studies

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In this article, we suggest rethinking how to move forward in a way that better elucidates socio-economic and political factors driving inequities, and in turn points to more broad sweeping, deep-rooted changes necessary if pandemics in the future are finally going to be mitigated pre-emptively rather than reactively. To this end, we argue that a more comprehensive, flexible and incisive approach is necessary – a hermeneutic framework that focuses analytical attention and action on interventions upstream, on the multifaceted interrelations necessary before lives currently deemed disposable are lost. Unlike dominant public health and epidemiological approaches, that is, Social Determinants of Health and Syndemics, proven unlikely to fuel structural change or to enable pre-emptive response, we propose the framework of pathogenicity and apply it to urban contexts to answer questions concerning the relationship between microbes on the one hand, and on the other, the urban, social, political, ideological, global, scientific, economic and many other relations that galvanise these into pathogens. By employing pathogenicity in the context of two case studies in the US and Turkey, we shift emphasis away from tackling microbes to better understanding what makes those microbes, and even the interventions implemented to stop them, so destructive.

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Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures

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Craddock

2022

Urban Studies

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“…These processes are hardest hitting for marginalized groups, those whose lives are only valuable insofar as they provide care for "worthy" subjects. In other words, some people are deserving of care while others deserve only to provide care-a capitalist logic that favors productivity over human life (Girvan et al 2020). Self-love/self-care, which insists on every person's value, disrupts these neoliberal assumptions, calling "for a revaluation of valuation" (Green and Bey 2012, 116).…”

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Self‐Care

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Talmor

2022

Feminist Anthropology

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Self-care is everywhere these days. Unlike "care," it is not yet a central term in anthropology, but recent ethnographic studies point up its potential. In this keyword entry, we trace out distinct yet co-present understandings of the term that stem from radically different worldviews and construct it in oppositional, mutually exclusive ways. The first is the Black feminist lineage, which defines self-care as a political warfare within and against an American system of intersectional oppression. The second is a multidisciplinary body of work which builds on Foucault and defines self-care as a neoliberal form of domination and subjectification. Finally, we examine a burgeoning literature on refusal that emerges from multiple disciplines, including queer and affect theory, Native studies, Black feminism, and disability studies. Centering the margins, this perspective directly speaks to processes of domination, elucidating the recursive relationship among self, care, and personhoodhow practices of care produce persons, and in turn, how only those accorded full personhood are deemed worthy of care. Containing these multiple and conflicting definitions, self-care thus exposes the current experience of crisis as bifurcated: either hopelessly ongoing or hopefully at a breaking point that will lead to change.

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Poetic Fabulations

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Seshia,

Nath

et al. 2024

Atlantis

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This collective work (four authors) demonstrates how persistent structures in higher education are mobilized in the signing of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education: Principles, Actions, and Accountabilities. We read this event against the grain, as an act requiring relation-building and accountability. Recognizing the promises and risks of this work, and inspired by Black Feminist/coalitional practices which disorient from pre-mapped routes and knowledges in universities and reorient to otherwise ways of being, we name this process “poetic fabulation.” We begin with poetry and proceed with seven stanzas that orient thematic reflections in each prose section that follows. The multi-vocality of the piece gives evidence to the experiences of the authors in this work. The interregnum which follows stanza 4, functions at the simultaneous and unruly registers of poetry, analysis, affect, and the somatic, to interrupt the flow, signalling how we experience labouring within the academy. Our work is collaborative, but also entails being hailed and responding in different ways. Using a full spectrum of creative and analytic skills, we navigate towards shared goals to process what we witness in and across post-secondary institution(s), to hold and care for the impacts of discretionary power.

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Poetics of Care: Remedies for Racial Capitalism Gone Viral

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