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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2013 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk (brigit.obrist@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Care is not only of critical importance in everyday life, it has also become a central moral, social, political and economic concern. The present and future of care is to a considerable extent determined by images of care. In many realms of life, images influence the ways in which societies understand, define, institutionalize, regulate, legitimize and practice care-giving and care-receiving. Reflecting about images of care in diverse societal contexts is therefore of high relevance, especially in pluralistic and rapidly changing societies. Only a critical reflection can contribute to an increasingly differentiated thinking about care and the creation of differentiated images of care. What are personal, social and societal imaginations of care? Images of care are individual, social and societal notions of care. In pluralistic and differentiated societies a multitude of care images co-exist. Care images are therefore a transdisciplinary topic in a double sense: they cannot be adequately studied by one scientific discipline and require an engagement with the world outside academia. Across and within disciplines, a multitude of concepts of care images and approaches to the study of images of care have been developed. Often quite separate from academia, organizations, practitioners, politicians, family members and persons in need of care construct and reproduce images of care which take on their own social and societal life. Broadly speaking, care encompasses the social reproductive activities which sustain society. From this perspective, care images are studied at the nexus of gender, age, body, work and increasingly also migration. Especially child care and elderly care are examined in terms of an increasing differentiation within and between home care as well as professionalized care services in a rapidly growing global care economy. Additional aspects of care come into focus if we zoom in on health. Care can be seen as a response to the basic human experience of vulnerability, and especially to basic physical, mental and emotional needs, ill-health, disability and frailty. In this sense, care is an individual or collective action directed towards individuals or groups in need. Care is thus a relational concept and closely linked with and deeply rooted in notions of risk, vulnerability and health, and how best to deal with them. Concerns with shifting boundaries of health care between family and professional health care providers are embedded in broader societal debates about risk and debates about social reproduction and the global care economy. For these reasons it is necessary to study images of care and health care on different and interlinked analytical levels: the macro-level (e.g. regimes and policies), the meso-level (e.g. institutionalized and organized care) and the micro-level (e.g. the social practice of care and self-care). |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Participation in the Module "Images of Care" in the frame of the Swiss Graduate Programme in Anthropology, 6./7. September 2013, is highy recommended. http://anthropology.cuso.ch/activities/detail-activity/item/courses/module-images-of-care/ |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Lehrveranstaltungen Doktorat an der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät (Doktorat an der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |