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The Problems with Care: A Feminist Care Scholar Retrospective

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  • Janna Klostermann

    (Department of Sociology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada)

  • Laura Funk

    (Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada)

  • Holly Symonds-Brown

    (Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada)

  • Maria Cherba

    (Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada)

  • Christine Ceci

    (Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada)

  • Pat Armstrong

    (Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada)

  • Jeanette Pols

    (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1012 Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Abstract

Seeking to support qualitative researchers in the artful development of feminist care scholarship, our goal here is to ‘look back’ on how we have conceptualized the problems of care and developed research that illuminates the social organization of care in distinct ways. As part of a ‘feminist care scholar retrospective’, we present five condensed ‘reverse research proposals’, which are retrospective accounts of past research or scholarly activity. From there, we discuss how each project begins with a particular problematic for investigation and a particular conception of care (e.g., as practices, as work, as a concept) to illuminate facets of the social organization of care shaping paid and unpaid care work and its interpretations. These approaches reveal multiple and overlapping ways that care is embodied, understood and organized, as well as ways care can be transformed.

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  • Janna Klostermann & Laura Funk & Holly Symonds-Brown & Maria Cherba & Christine Ceci & Pat Armstrong & Jeanette Pols, 2022. "The Problems with Care: A Feminist Care Scholar Retrospective," Societies, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-15, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:12:y:2022:i:2:p:52-:d:772238
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