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Panel "Organizing Care as a Research Practice" at Medical Anthropology Vienna Conference

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. EASST's Eurograd mailing list -- eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net Archive: https://lists.easst.net/hyperkitty/list/eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net/ Edit your delivery settings there using Account dropdown, Mailman settings. Website: https://easst.net/easst_eurograd/ Meet us on Mastodon: https://assemblag.es/@easst Or X: https://twitter.com/STSeasst

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