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Carescapes: Supporting life and engaging diverse contexts to generate care 
Convenors:
David Colon Cabrera (Monash Health)
Lewis Johnstone (Monash)
Narelle Warren (Monash University)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Vitality
Location:
NIKERI KC1.211
Sessions:
Thursday 24 November, -
Time zone: Australia/Melbourne

Short Abstract:

This panel extends theorising on carescapes and caringscapes to emphasise the place of agency, imagined in diverse ways, and how physical geographies and social spaces of and for care are transformed, resisted, or accepted by those who operate within these scapes.

Long Abstract:

Concepts of carescapes and caringscapes (Bowlby 2012; Bowlby & McKie 2019) offer an avenue to elucidate the complex contexts of care and how these shape - and are shaped by - the lives of those who are actively engaged in it. Attention to carescapes requires a consideration of the broader structural and cultural influences that shape how care is understood, realised, and experienced. Although care has long been thought of as relational - as a form of affective and embodied labour provided from one person to another - these concepts draw attention to its spatial and temporal dimensions, as well as to questions of power and privilege. Caringscapes invite a consideration of how care is organised socially (Bowlby and McKie 2019): who provides care, for/to whom, and when (in a lifecourse, but also across a day/week/month/year) often reflects sociocultural faultlines, as does the nature of that care.

Yet, while these two constructs appear complementary, they intersect in ways that prompt a consideration of the processes and prospects involved in de/re/territorializing care. Carescapes do not always act in support of caringscapes but instead may undermine or compromise the lived experience of care (Lau et al., 2021). This panel extends theorising on carescapes and caringscapes to emphasise the place of agency, imagined in diverse ways, and how physical geographies and social spaces of and for care are transformed, resisted, or accepted by those who operate within these scapes.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 23 November, 2022, -