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2. Therapeutic Politics of Care: New Ethnographies of Asia
- Author:
- Felicity Aulino, Nicholas Bartlett, Lyle Fearnley, Ting Hui Lau, Emily Ng, and Saiba Varma
- Publication Date:
- 11-2020
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Abstract:
- Care has become a crucial concern of anthropological inquiry, and current global conditions have renewed its poignancy. To paraphrase Lisa Stevenson, care involves an ethics of attending, corresponding to particular ways that someone (or something) comes to matter. The drive to care, as she and others have noted, is far from innocent, and may be filled with ambivalence whether in intimate or institutional forms. Connecting fieldwork from three provinces in China, Thailand, and contested Kashmir territory, this series brings together the authors of five new books and a dissertation to explore the therapeutic politics of care across multiple logics and scales.
- Topic:
- Ethics, Anthropology, Ethnography, and Care
- Political Geography:
- China, Asia, Kashmir, and Thailand
3. Rapid Care Analysis as a Qualitative Research Tool to Explore Unpaid Care Work: Experience from Char Area in Bangladesh
- Author:
- Sahida Islam Khondaker
- Publication Date:
- 06-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), Brac University
- Abstract:
- Everyday unpaid care work is carried out all over the world and it is necessary for a society’s wellbeing. However, unpaid care work is largely ignored by economic and social public policy initiatives. Neither it is adequately valued in economic terms. In developing countries like Bangladesh, most research on unpaid care work is dominated by quantitative research methodologies that generally cannot capture how people actually experience unpaid work on a daily basis. Moreover, they neglect the arena of perceptions of unpaid work. Qualitative participatory approaches allow people to identify the extent to which unpaid work-related problems affect their communities, encourage people to assess the causes and consequences of inequitable distribution of care work and facilitate the identification of interventions from the perspectives of women and men, rather than policymakers or scholars. This paper attempts to describe and analyze the Rapid Care Analysis (RCA) as a qualitative method to study unpaid care work and establish that compared to quantitative methods, RCA as a qualitative method can capture the unequal distribution of care work in the community, measure time uses, create awareness and also find out available services, infrastructure and options to reduce and redistribute care work more comprehensively. From different RCA exercises, it is observed that both male and female participants have understood the notion of heavy and unequal care work. Through the exercise, participants recognized care work as work. Participants also came up with some solution to reduce care work. Quantitative methods cannot provide these insights. Therefore, RCA could be one of the best tools for conducting research on care work.
- Topic:
- Economy, Research, Public Policy, and Care
- Political Geography:
- Bangladesh and South Asia
4. Measuring Unpaid Care Work in Household Surveys
- Author:
- Martin Walsh
- Publication Date:
- 06-2018
- Content Type:
- Research Paper
- Institution:
- Oxfam Publishing
- Abstract:
- Caring for people and domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water, is essential for personal wellbeing and survival. But across the world, care work is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities for education, employment, political engagement and leisure.
- Topic:
- Labor Issues, Homeownership, Labor Market, and Care
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
5. Understanding Norms around the Gendered Division of Labour: Results from Focus Group Discussions in Zimbabwe
- Author:
- Emma Samman
- Publication Date:
- 06-2018
- Content Type:
- Research Paper
- Institution:
- Oxfam Publishing
- Abstract:
- Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in many communities and inform strategies aimed at promoting change. This report summarizes the main findings from the qualitative research conducted in August 2017 to support on the identification of the main social norms related to unpaid care and domestic work in rural communities in four districts in Zimbabwe. The research served to identify who the leaders are that communities look up to in order to validate social norms change. It helped to identify nascent opportunities for changes in the gendered division of labour, and what the implications are of the findings for planning and practice in addressing inequalities on unpaid care and domestic work.
- Topic:
- Gender Issues, Labor Issues, Norms, Empowerment, and Care
- Political Geography:
- Africa and Zimbabwe
6. Se nos va el cuidado, se nos va la vida: Migración, destierro, desplazamiento y cuidado en Colombia
- Author:
- Camila Esguerra Muelle, Ivette Sepúlveda Sanabria, and Friederike Fleischer
- Publication Date:
- 06-2018
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre Desarrollo (CIDER), Universidad de los Andes
- Abstract:
- El presente documento desarrolla una serie de reflexiones derivadas del proyecto de investigación “Migración y Cadenas Globales de Cuidado”, el cual ha arrojado como hallazgos y problematizaciones sobre las condiciones y consecuencias de la migración —interna e internacional— el destierro y el desplazamiento de mujeres colombianas trabajadoras del cuidado y sus consecuencias en la economía del cuidado. El documento propone que es necesario pensar políticas públicas más integradas o intersectoriales, así como complejizar la concepción de sujetos de política pública a partir de dos planteamientos. Primero, las políticas públicas sectorizadas o sectoriales difícilmente dan cuenta de campos fenoménicos entrecruzados, en este caso la migración y el cuidado, pues hacen un recorte, una compertamentalización que hace imposible integrar el análisis y la acción sobre estos fenómenos. Segundo, la permanencia de un sujeto abstracto, homogéneo del que no se reconoce su lugar en sistemas como la clase, la raza, el género, la sexualidad, el capacitismo y la edad como sistemas de poder, o su estar simultáneo en distintos roles (como migrantes, como trabajadoras, como sujetos de salud, etc.), hace que las políticas difícilmente puedan aspirar a tener los impactos deseados en cuanto a la superación de desigualdades simbólicas y materiales en el país.
- Topic:
- Migration, Immigration, Citizenship, Global Value Chains, Emigration, Exile, and Care
- Political Geography:
- Colombia
7. Unifying Social Identity: Community Skilled Birth Attendant
- Author:
- Ahrafuzzaman Khan and Md. Kamruzzaman
- Publication Date:
- 07-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), Brac University
- Abstract:
- Homebirth is regarded as the gold standard and the premier standard of birth. Community Skilled Birth Attendants (CSBA) received a six-month training in and out of class at skilled birth attendant (SBA) training institutes, approved by the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The trainees are involved in assisting the safe and clean delivery at home in rural Bangladesh. Many CSBAs are engaged in Government and non-government organizations in relation to providing birth attendant services in rural Bangladesh. The intention of HNPP, BRAC is to increase the number of CSBA in order to achieve MDG 5. The study explored the process of social identification of CSBAs. The notion of social identity has delineated a comprehensive account of social relations in the theory of practice of Pierre Bourdieu. Moreover, social relations explained the process of social identification employing the concept of self-categorization and social categorization. The study employed qualitative methods to explore the mechanisms of internal and social categorization of CSBAs. The findings reveal that CSBAs are known as BRAC health cadres in the community. They are struggling to establish their identity as trained midwives in the community. Despite some challenges of their professions, CSBAs are respected as ‘dactar or nurse apa’ by the villages. Professional training on SBA enables them to generate income and social prestige. TBAs and village doctors create constraints to perform the professional responsibilities of the CSBA in the community. On the other hand, the villagers are still bewildered about the terms as well as the roles and responsibilities of Shasthya Shebika (SS), Newborn Health Workers (NHWs), Shasthya Kormi (SK) and CSBA of HNPP, BRAC. They are confused about whether health providers of BRAC are required to pay for assisting home birth. The villagers also perceive that assisting to homebirth is considered a social norm rather than professional duty. Moreover, the villagers hardly found government service providers in this regard. Therefore, the study has outlined a number of recommendations for strengthening the profession of CSBAs of HNPP in BRAC.
- Topic:
- Identity, Birthing, Skills, and Care
- Political Geography:
- Bangladesh and South Asia