The role of the non-human in relations of care: baby things

Abstract

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Care goes underground: thinking through relations of care in the maintenance and repair of urban water infrastructures

“…49 Building on this work and responding specifically to provocations to attend to the role of the more than human within relations of care, 50 we seek to extend understanding of who (and what) can participate in care relations. 51 Through attunement to nonhuman actants within networks of water infrastructure, we build on existing work by exploring how and under what conditions nonhumans become implicated in care relations and the ways in which human participants work with these in order to effect care.…”

Mother, consumer, trader: Gendering the commodification of second-hand economies since the recession

“…The growth in research on second-hand cultures stems from a call to engage critically with everyday consumption -to see the extraordinary in the mundane -and subsequent adoption of both practice theory and ethnographic methods. Where consumption research traditionally focused on the value of material goods, economically and symbolically, it now pays closer attention to what consumption can tell us about social and cultural relations (Hurdley, 2013;Waight and Boyer, 2018) on the premise that consumption is not a practice enacted in a vacuum, but rather a moment of almost every other practice (Warde, 2005).…”

Breastmilk as Agentic Matter and the Distributed Agencies of Infant Feeding

“…It also builds on the growing body of scholarship on the spatial, affective and material practices involved in the formation of parental and maternal identities (Aitken 2000;Boyer Dowling 2000;Holloway 1998;Luzia 2010;Madge and O'Connor 2005;Pain et al 2001;Rose 2004), and the concept of breastfeeding as an assemblage composed of human and non-human components (Newell 2013). It also extends work on how parenting practice is shaped in and through engagements with the non-human, such as second-hand baby things (Waight 2014;Waight and Boyer 2018), 'family' cars (Waitt and Harada 2016); and prams and built form (Boyer and Spinney 2016).…”