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Theorizing Care:
A Humanities Online Reading Course

Class and Reading Schedule

Initial 
           Readings

Participants are encouraged to approach this course initially with two fundamental readings:

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Chatzidakis, A., Hakim, J., Litter, J., & Rottenberg, C. (2020). Chapter 1. Caring Politics, Chapter 2. Caring Kinships, Chapter 3. Caring Communities. In The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. New York: Verso Books. 

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Groys, B. (2022). Introduction: Care and Self-Care, Chapter 9. Care as Being the Dasein, Chapter 10. Under the Gaze of the Charwoman. In Philosophy of Care. New York: Verso Books.

   "The Banality of Carelessness and the Prefiguration of a Caring Society"

       - A Summary Review by Jose Duke Bagulaya with support from Eric Feng

      "Care in the Biopolitical Age: Towards a Philosophy of Care"

        - A Summary Review by Jose Duke Bagulaya with support from Eric Feng

Reading 
           Schedule

(*The proposed readings will be provided after registration)

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Session Leader:
Ellen Seiter

01

Kwok, E. (2019). Little Manila: An Unlikely Crowd of Resistance in Hong Kong. Architectural Theory Review, 23(2), 287-314.

02

Patel, R., & Moore, J. W. (2017). Cheap Care. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. University of California Press.

03

Seiter, E. (1995). Children's Desires/Mothers' Dilemmas The Social Contexts of Consumption. In Sold Separately: Children and Parents in Consumer Culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

9 Feb 2023

Thur, 4-6pm (HKT)

Session Leader: Ellen Seiter

9 Mar 2023

Thur, 4-6pm (HKT)

Session Leader: CHOW Yiu Fai

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Session Leader:
Yiu Fai Chow

Chow, Y. (2018). Living on My Own, Creatively, Precariously. In Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai (pp. 1-50). Germany: Springer.

13 April 2023

Thur, 4-6pm (HKT)

Session Leader: Mette Hjort

Session 3

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Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort

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Hjort, M. (2022). The Necessity of Sustainable Filmmaking: Production Notes from Palestine, Burkina Faso, and Zanzibar. In P. Kääpä & H. Vaughan (Eds.), Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis: Towards A Greener Screen. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

02

Saito, Y. (2022). Care Relationship and Activities with the Material World. In Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life (pp. 121-164). New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Further Reading

Held, V. (2006). Part 1: Care and Moral Theory. In The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. Oxford: Oxford University Press on Demand.

11 May 2023

Thur, 4-6pm (HKT)

Session Leader: Bidisha Banerjee

Session 4

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Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort
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Session Leaders:
Bidisha Banerjee

Bellacasa, M. P. (2017). Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P.

8 June 2023

Thur, 8-10 pm (HKT)/7-9 am (CST)

Session Leader: Adam Muller

Session 5

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Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort
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 Session Leaders:
Adam Muller

RecommendedReading

Esposito, R. (2011). Chapter I. Appropriation. In Immunitas: The protection and negation of life. New York: Wiley.

Further Reading

Esposito, R. (2009). Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community. Stanford UP.

Further Reading

Agamben, Giorgio. (1998).  Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford UP.

13 July 2023

Thur, 4-6 pm (HKT)

Session Leader: Daisy Tam

Bethaney Turner

Session 6

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Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort
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01

Turner, B. and Tam, D. (2022) ‘Moving from Risky to Response-able Care’, Antipode. Wiley, 54(3), pp. 914–933. 

02

Reich, R. (2013) ‘Philanthropy and Caring for the Needs of Strangers’, Social Research, 80(2), pp. 517–539.

Further Reading

Mol, A. (2008). The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice. New York and London: Taylor & Francis.

Further Reading

Tronto, J. C. (1987). Beyond Gender Difference to A Theory of Care. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 12(4), 644-663.

10 Aug 2023

Thur, 4-6 pm (HKT))

Session Leader: Liz Jacksonm

Session 7

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Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort
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 Session Leaders:
Adam Muller
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 Session Leaders:
Liz Jackson
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01

Jackson, L. (2020). Caring, Compassion, and Altruism. In Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (pp. 95-113). Cambridge UP.

02

Noddings, N. (2013). Chapter 1. WHY CARE ABOUT CARING, Chapter 2. THE ONE-CARING, Chapter 3. THE CARED-FOR, Chapter 4. AN ETHIC OF CARING, Chapter 8. MORAL EDUCATION. In Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. U of California P.

03

Jackson, L. (2018). Care and Justice. In P. Smeyers (Ed.), International Handbook of Philosophy of Education (pp. 951-964). Springer.

14 Sept 2023

Thur, 4-6 pm (HKT))

Session Leader: Jeffery Clapp

Session 8

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Mette Hjort
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 Session Leaders:
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 Session Leaders:
Jeffrey Clapp

01

Vermeule, B. (2010). Preface, Chapter 1. The Fictional among Us, Chapter 2. The Cognitive Dimension, Chapter 3. What Hails Us?, Epilogue. In Why Do We Care About Literary Characters? The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Further Reading

Zunshine, L. (2012). Preface, Chapter 1. Culture of Greedy Mind Readers, Chapter 7. Reality TV: Humiliation in Real Time, Chapter 10. Painting Mysteries, Coda. In Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture. The Johns Hopkins University Press.

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