[Rundmail] Call for Participants: Care as Method Workshop / November 27 / Lausanne/online

[Sil Woj]

Dear colleagues,

please find below the CFP for the workshop Care as Method, part of the
conference Geographies of Alternative Care: Spaces, Ecologies and Methods
(University of Lausanne, November 26-27th 2020).

The deadline for registration is November 10. Please feel free to share the
call with your networks.

More information on the conference are available at
<https://wp.unil.ch/geographiesofcare/>https://wp.unil.ch/geographiesofcare
<https://wp.unil.ch/geographiesofcare/>

<https://wp.unil.ch/geographiesofcare/>Full schedule coming soon!!

Take care,
Silvia Wojczewski
PhD candidate & teaching assistant
*UNIL | Université de Lausanne*
IGD Institute of Geography and Sustainability
Anthropology of travel and tourism
http://igd.unil.ch/silviawojczewski/en/presentation/
https://unil.academia.edu/SilviaWojczewski

*Care as Method*

*Date:* Friday, November 27th, 2020

*Time:* 14:30 to 17:00 (CET).

*Format:* Hybrid*(University of Lausanne/online)

*Language:* English

*Led by :* Marianna Fernandes & Silvia Wojczewski (University Lausanne)

*Input talks by: *Parvati Raghuram <http://www.open.ac.uk/people/pr2892>,
Open University, UK

*Registration:* open until November 10th


The COVID-19 pandemic has made legible stark inequalities in the global
distribution of care. Building on feminist and anti-racist perspectives,
the conference *Geographies of Alternative Care: Spaces, Ecologies, and
Methods*  <https://wp.unil.ch/geographiesofcare/>(University of Lausanne,
November 26-27th 2020) opens an interdisciplinary conversation on three key
dimensions of caring: caring *for* and *through* spaces; caring
*across *species
and scales; caring as a research method.

Within the framework of the conference, we invite participants for the
workshop *Care as Method <https://wp.unil.ch/geographiesofcare/workshop/>*.

While global care chains and reproductive work have been the main focus of
much feminist scholarship, this workshop shifts attention to care as a
political and ethical basis for doing research.

For instance, Hamilton and Neimanis (2018) propose feminist composting as a
methodology to carefully incorporate, in a non-extractivist way, feminism
as well as theories and praxis concerned with race, coloniality, sexuality,
ability, class, and other related power asymmetries into the field of the
environmental humanities. Many feminist scholars propose that care has a
radical potential for changing the way research is conducted. Feminist
critique, as Mayanthi Fernando points out, can be a practice of care for
the self, others and the world (Fernando 2019). Careful research tools may
include co-writing between participant and researcher (Blasco & Hernandez
2019), or paying particular attention to caring for the body in research
contexts (Sutton 2010, Lorde 2012).

Assuming that, as Puig De la Bellacasa (2017) puts it, care involves
non-innocent political and ethical interventions that affect also those who
are researching it, the issue of methodologies that allow engaging with
care without “smoothing it out of its disruptive potential” imposes itself.
Beyond aiming at grasping the state of the art of methods in care research,
our goal is to discuss the theoretical and practical implications, as well
as the risks and possibilities, of approaching care as method.

Drawing on methodologies and epistemologies distinctive of feminist
research (Harding 1987), the workshop will mainly focus on care in research
practices and research institutions. It is aimed at being a space of
self-reflection about positionality (but not only) and about how care can
be perceived as a methodological tool, or posture, to advance ethical
research.

The workshop will be interactive and include input talks by two scholars as
well as moments for peer feedback. It will be possible to publish the
participants’ authorial pieces on the event’s website. We particularly
invite contributions from young scholars (Ph.D., Post-Doc) from geography,
anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and other related fields.

Registration will be open until November 10th. The workshop will be
conducted in English*.

*Places:* 20 (in the registration form, you will be asked to choose between
online and in-presence participation. Switzerland-based attendants are
invited to participate in-presence.)

*Preparatory work:* Participants are strongly encouraged to read two short
pieces that will be circulated beforehand. Prior to the workshop date,
participants should share one short authorial piece of work connected to
the topic *Care as Method*. This could be a short essay (max 500 words), a
poem, an image, collage, etcetera.

*Registration:* click here
<https://wp.unil.ch/geographiesofcare/registration/> and register until
November 10th!

Do not hesitate to contact us at *geographiesofcare at gmail.com
<geographiesofcare at gmail.com>* if you have any questions.

Geographies of Alternative Care is organized by Marianna Fernandes,
Christophe Mager, Simone Ranocchiari, Miriam Tola and Silvia Wojczewski
with the support of Thaïs Hobi and Louisa Malatesta.
The event is sponsored by the Institute of Geography and Sustainability (IGD
<https://www.unil.ch/igd/fr/home.html>) and the Plateforme interfacultaire
en études genre (PlaGE <https://www.unil.ch/plage/fr/home.html>).

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*Unfortunately, we cannot provide translation to the workshop. Note,
however, that most conference activities will be translated to English,
French and Spanish.

**Hybrid format combines online and in-presence participation. Please note
that due to ongoing pandemics, we may need to shift it to fully online
activity.

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