Consider participation in the panel "Organizing Care as a research practice:
Imaginative approaches" as a part of the Medical Anthropology Europe
Conference in Vienna, September 16-19, 2025
Call for papers deadline: April 15th, 2025
More info at the conference website: Scientific
Program
Abstract: Care is both a practical and theoretical matter. Practically, as
Annemarie Mol suggests, someone must organize it, ensuring people and
resources are in the right places to meet care needs. Theoretically, care
involves understanding the underlying ideas, determining what constitutes
right or wrong care, and its goals. Care policies and practice are often seen
as dichotomous entities, but we propose viewing organization as a process that
bridges theory and practice, making them adapt to each other. Inspired by
Jeannette Pols work on "hanging out" and generative research as relational,
participatory methods, there is a search for approaches that dismantle
hierarchies, amplify marginalized voices, and co-produce situated knowledge.
This session invites papers on the organizational aspects of long-term care,
focusing on imaginative methodologies and critiquing the dichotomy between
practice and policy. We welcome research that explores methodologically:
- How care professionals organize care both theoretically and practically,
and strategies to align policies with practice.
- How practice and policies influence each other.
- Organizational differences at various levelsmanagers, care workers, and
middle personsand their approaches.
- Organizational hierarchies and structures within care institutions,
their impact on care practice, and vice versa.
- Necessary methodological innovations and novel approaches in social
science for researching care organization.
We seek contributions that share novel and imaginative approaches to fieldwork
on care as a matter of organization, aiming to dismantle the dichotomy between
practice policy and push disciplinary boundaries.
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