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Care of the body: spaces of practice

Atkinson, S.; Lawson, V.; Wiles, J.

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Authors

V. Lawson

J. Wiles



Abstract

Care—concept, emotion, practice, politics, moral exhortation—is a starting point for a range of critical geographies. Care affords geographers a richness of possibilities through which to engage critically with a range of politically charged discourses. This special issue offers a suite of ‘think’ pieces on geographies of care which provoke further examination of three challenges. First, we need conceptual strategies to explore the connections of care across different spatialities and temporalities. Secondly, biases within current research on care help make invisible the multiple sites through which our practices are shaped. Thirdly, certain concepts within the care lexicon have gone unchallenged such as dependency and vulnerability. We contemplate the potential of imagining care both as relation and as flow. The nodal characteristic of a relational care shapes how care flows through those nodes to focus on the spatial and temporal unevenness and inequalities in care, the processes eroding situated traditions of care, and the spaces and practices facilitating care of the body.

Citation

Atkinson, S., Lawson, V., & Wiles, J. (2011). Care of the body: spaces of practice. Social and Cultural Geography, 12(6), 563-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2011.601238

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2011
Deposit Date Jun 30, 2011
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Social and Cultural Geography
Print ISSN 1464-9365
Electronic ISSN 1470-1197
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 12
Issue 6
Pages 563-572
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2011.601238
Keywords Care, Body, Practices, Care relations, Care flows.

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