WORKSHOP – Kinship, Chronic Illness and Responsibility of Care

Datum
05. Dezem­ber 2019 

*Date:* Decem­ber 5, 2019, Edin­burgh Cen­tre for Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy, Social
Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Edinburgh
*Dis­cus­sants:*  Janet Carsten, Jacob Cope­man and Ian Harper.
*Con­tact*: Emil­i­ja Zabil­iūtė emilija.zabiliute@ed.ac.uk
*Abstract sub­mis­sion dead­line*: Sep­tem­ber 7, 2019

Chron­ic ill­ness demands exten­sive care in patients’ every­day lives, and
often rede­fines what it means to be a per­son, a fam­i­ly mem­ber and a carer.
It reor­ga­nizes sub­jec­tiv­i­ties, affec­tive and embod­ied inten­si­ties of
famil­ial rela­tions in patient’s every­day lives, and their tem­po­ral­i­ties. It
calls into atten­tion the respon­si­bil­i­ties of care and their
trans­for­ma­tions. Bor­row­ing Lev­inas’ notion of respon­si­bil­i­ty as an ethical
ori­en­ta­tion of sub­jec­tiv­i­ty towards the oth­ers, the work­shop invites papers
to reflect on the ways in which care for chron­ic ill­ness challenges,
rein­forces and shapes the modes, prac­tices and ethics of kin­ship and
relat­ed­ness. The con­cept of respon­si­bil­i­ty here serves to inter­ro­gate the
eth­i­cal ori­en­ta­tions of inti­ma­cy, rela­tion­al­i­ty and its infin­i­ty, and
oblig­a­tion in lives of fam­i­lies with chron­ic con­di­tions. It also allows to
explore how fam­i­lies nav­i­gate the nor­ma­tive moral and med­ical regimes
elic­it­ing respon­si­bil­i­ties amidst chron­ic suffering.
This call invites par­tic­i­pants to con­tribute with papers draw­ing on
ethno­graph­ic field­works across diverse regions and set­tings, both in the
Glob­al North and the Glob­al South. The par­tic­i­pants will be asked to
cir­cu­late the papers in advance. Please sub­mit your abstract of no more
than 400 words to Emil­i­ja Zabil­iūtė (emilija.zabiliute@ed.ac.uk
<eimlija.zabiliute@ed.ac.uk>) by Sep­tem­ber 7, 2019.

Par­tic­i­pants’ travel/accommodation costs will be par­tial­ly covered.
More infor­ma­tion: http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/edcma/news/call_for_abstracts

*Date:* Decem­ber 5, 2019, Edin­burgh Cen­tre for Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy, Social
Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Edinburgh
*Dis­cus­sants:*  Janet Carsten, Jacob Cope­man and Ian Harper.
*Con­tact*: Emil­i­ja Zabil­iūtė emilija.zabiliute@ed.ac.uk
*Abstract sub­mis­sion dead­line*: Sep­tem­ber 7, 2019

Chron­ic ill­ness demands exten­sive care in patients’ every­day lives, and
often rede­fines what it means to be a per­son, a fam­i­ly mem­ber and a carer.
It reor­ga­nizes sub­jec­tiv­i­ties, affec­tive and embod­ied inten­si­ties of
famil­ial rela­tions in patient’s every­day lives, and their tem­po­ral­i­ties. It
calls into atten­tion the respon­si­bil­i­ties of care and their
trans­for­ma­tions. Bor­row­ing Lev­inas’ notion of respon­si­bil­i­ty as an ethical
ori­en­ta­tion of sub­jec­tiv­i­ty towards the oth­ers, the work­shop invites papers
to reflect on the ways in which care for chron­ic ill­ness challenges,
rein­forces and shapes the modes, prac­tices and ethics of kin­ship and
relat­ed­ness. The con­cept of respon­si­bil­i­ty here serves to inter­ro­gate the
eth­i­cal ori­en­ta­tions of inti­ma­cy, rela­tion­al­i­ty and its infin­i­ty, and
oblig­a­tion in lives of fam­i­lies with chron­ic con­di­tions. It also allows to
explore how fam­i­lies nav­i­gate the nor­ma­tive moral and med­ical regimes
elic­it­ing respon­si­bil­i­ties amidst chron­ic suffering.
This call invites par­tic­i­pants to con­tribute with papers draw­ing on
ethno­graph­ic field­works across diverse regions and set­tings, both in the
Glob­al North and the Glob­al South. The par­tic­i­pants will be asked to
cir­cu­late the papers in advance. Please sub­mit your abstract of no more
than 400 words to Emil­i­ja Zabil­iūtė (emilija.zabiliute@ed.ac.uk
<eimlija.zabiliute@ed.ac.uk>) by Sep­tem­ber 7, 2019.

Par­tic­i­pants’ travel/accommodation costs will be par­tial­ly covered.
More infor­ma­tion: http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/edcma/news/call_for_abstracts