Comparative Cultures of Care:
An Interdisciplinary Project
Initial
Readings
Participants are encouraged to approach this course initially with two fundamental readings:
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.
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)
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
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
Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort
01
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
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
Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort
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
Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort
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
Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort
Session Leaders:
Adam Muller
Session Leaders:
Liz Jackson
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
Session Leaders:
Mette Hjort
Session Leaders:
Adam Muller
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.