COGR 275: Cultures of CareUCSD Dept of Communication | Fall 2015 |
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| Course Schedule: week: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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Note:Weekly topics and readings listed here are provisional and may be updated after the course begins--please check this site weekly for updates. Some weeks list a number of readings--required readings will be selected from those listed by the instructor through discussion with participants. Some optional readings will be summarized and discussed by presenters.
WEEK 1 (Sept 25) : Course
overview: Framing Care
Readings:
- Michael Fine (2007), selections from A Caring Society?
Films/Media:
- "Mother" commercial for Mass Mutual: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzIg0vw8gNY
- Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Buda az sharm foru rikht), Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran, 2007)
- When I Walk, Jason DaSilva (US, 2013)
WEEK 2 (Oct 2): Feminist Ethics of Care
Readings:
- Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen Feder, eds (2002), The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Care (Selections)
- Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen Feder, "Introduction"
- Carol Gilligan, "In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality"
- Nel Noddings,(1992) "Care" in The Challenge to Care in Schools
- Cheshire Calhoun (1988), "Justice, Care, Gender Bias"
- Virginia Held, "Care and Justice in the Global Context"
- Annette Baier, "The Need for More Than Justice
- Carol Bacchi and Chris Beasley (2005), "Reproductive Technology and the Political Limits of Care" in Ethics of the Body, eds, Shidrick & Mykiiuk. MIT Press
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Joan Tronto, "Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care"
- Sara Ahmed, "Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness"
- Eva Feder Kittay, "When Caring Is Just and Justice Is Caring: Justice and Mental Retardation"
- Carol Bacchi and Chris Beasley, Moving Beyond Care and/or Trust: An Ethic of Social Flesh
- Patricia Hill Collins, "Black Women and Motherhood"
Readings:
- Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol 3: Care of the Self (selections)
- Emanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (selections)
- Richard Ganis, The Politics of Care in Habermas and Derrida: Between Measurability and Immeasurability (selections)
- Kim Walker, "My life? My Choice? ethics, autonomy, and evidence-Based Practice in Contemporary Clinical Care" in Murray and Holmes, Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare
- B. Loewe "An End to Self Care"
Media:
- Carl Theodor Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) https://youtu.be/CxJSGMK9yRE
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Sara Ahmed, "This other and other others"
- Sara Ahmed, "Affective Economies"
- Sara Ahmed and Anne-Marie Fortier, "Re-Imagining Communities"
- Eva Feder Kittay, "At the Margins of Moral Personhood"
- Joan Didion, "In Bed"
WEEK 4 (Oct 16): Critical Approaches to Empathy
- Eve Sedgwick, "Introduction" to Touching Feeling (selections)
- Luc Boltanski, "The Politics of Pity," "The Aesthetic Topic," and "How Realistic is Action?" in Distant Suffering: Morality, Media, and Politics
- Sara Ahmed, "The Organization of Hate"
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Michael Slote, The Ethics of Care and Empathy (esp chapter 2 "Our Obligations to Help Others”)
- Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg, "Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship
- Lilie Chouliaraki, "Post-humanitarianism: Humanitarian communication beyond a politics of pity"
- Elizabeth Wilson, Ch 4 "Trembling, Blushing" in Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (also, "Darwin’s Nervous System")
- Vilayanur Ramachandran: "A Radical Theory of Autism" http://bigthink.com/videos/a-radical-theory-of-autism and "The neurons that shaped civilization" (Ted Talk) http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html?source=email#.UhOM0N_KSnx.email
- Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitcs", Public Culture Winter 2003 15(1): 11-40
WEEK 5 (Oct 23): Politics of Vulnerability. Dependency, Independence, and Interdependence
Readings:
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Ingunn Moser and John Law, "Making Voices" - Annemarie Mol "Care and Its Values: Good food in the nursing home," Care in Practice: Adaptable Technologies and Fragile Bodies, eds, Mol, Moser & Pols, eds.
- Sara Ahmed, "Collective Feelings Or, The Impressions Left by Others"
- Park McArthur & Constantina Zavitsanos, "Other Forms of Conviviality," Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 2013, 23:1, 126-132
- Don Kulick and Jens Rydström, (2105) Ch 7 "Disability and Sexuality—Who Cares?" in Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement
- Erinn Gilson, "Vulnerability, Ignorance, and Oppression" Hypatia vol. 26, no. 2 (Spring, 2011)
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Park McArthur, "Carried and held: Getting good at being helped," International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vol 5, No 2, Fall 2012, 162-169
- Eva Feder Kittay, "Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations" from Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency
- Dorothy Roberts, "Poverty, Race, and the Distorition of Dependency" in Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen Feder, eds (2002). The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Care
- Sara Ahmed, "The Gendered Context of Vulnerability: Coping / Adapting to Floods in Eastern India"
- Kate Brown "Re-moralising 'vulnerability'"
- Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron and Nicole L. Asquith, "The Extraordinary Intricacies of Policing Vulnerability"
- Lennard J. Davis, "Dependency and Justice"
- Martha C. Nussbaum, "Analytic Love and Human Vulnerabililty?"
WEEK 6 (Oct 30): Care and the Boundaries of the Nation-State
Readings:
- Eva Feder Kittay, "The Global Heart Transplant and Caring across National Boundaries"
- James Quesada , Laurie Kain Hart & Philippe Bourgois, "Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the US"
- Martha T. McCluskey, "Subsidized lives and the Ideology of Efficiency"
- Kyeong-Hee Choi, "Impaired Body as Colonial Trope: Kang Kyo ̆ ng’ae’s 'Underground Village'"
- Robert McRuer, "Taking It to the Bank: Independence and Inclusion on the World Market"
- Kalindi Vora, "Limits of “Labor”: Accounting for Affect and the Biological in Transnational Surrogacy and Service Work"
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Adriana Petryna and Arthur Kleinman, "The Pharmaceutical Nexus" in Global Phamaceuticals eds Petryna, Lakoff, Kleinman
- Laura Briggs, "Foreign and Domestic: Adoption, Immigration,and Privatization" in Boris and Salazar Parreñas, eds, Intimate Labors-Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care
WEEK 7 (Nov 6): (In)Visible Illness and Unrecognized Difference
Readings:
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Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey C. Bowker, "Enacting silence: Residual categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication" - Susan Lingsom, "Invisible Impairments: Dilemmas of Concealment and Disclosure"
- Margaret Price, Selections from Mad at School: Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling, selections: "Writing Depression: Acedia, History, and Medical Models"
- Amanda L. Kundrat & Jon F. Nussbaum, "The Impact of Invisible Illness on Identity and Contextual Age Across the Life Span"
- Jen R, "Invisible Illnesses, Visible Stereotypes"
- N. Ann Davis, "Invisible Disability"
- Gagnon, M., & Stuart, M. (2008). "Manufacturing disability: HIV, women and the construction of difference." Nursing Philosophy, 10, 42-52.
WEEK 8 (Nov 13): Lay Expertise: Care Activism and Participation in Knowledge Formation
Readings:
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Steve Epstein (1996) Impure Science: AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge, (Selections) "Introduction", - Paola Sesia "Women Come Here on Their Own When They Need to", Medical Anthropology Quarterly, June, 1996
- Luis Camnitzer, Art and Literacy
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Alison Kafer, "At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X" from Feminist, Queer, Crip
- Arthur Kleinman, Culture,Illness, and Care
- Anne Fadiman, Ch 17-Ch19 of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- N. J. Fox, et al, "The 'expert patient': empowerment or medical dominance? The case of weight loss, pharmaceutical drugs and the Internet"
- Cathy Charles and Suzanne DeMaio, "Lay Participation in Health Care Decision Making: A Conceptual Framework," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 18, No.4, Winter 1993
- Joëlle Kivits, "Researching the 'Informed Patient"
- Margaret Mead, "Research with Human Beings: A Model Derived from Anthropological Field Practice"
WEEK 9 (Nov 20): Care and Design
Reading:
- Rosemary Garland-Thomson, "Misfits: a Feminist Materialist Disability Concept"
- Evan Calder Williams, "The Honeyed Siphon" The New Inquiry Magazine Vol. 35, Dec 2014
- Guy Dewsbury et al "Depending on digital design: extending inclusivity"
- Myriam Winance, (2010). "Care and Disability: Practices of Experimenting, Tinkering with, and Arranging People with Technical Aids" in Mol, Mose, Pols, eds,Care in Practice
- Ariana Eunjung Cha "The Human Upgrade: The Revolution Will Be Digitized" The Washington Post, May 9, 2015
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Devlieger-et-al, Blindness and the Multi-Sensorial City
- Sophie Bowlby et al, "'Doing Home': Patriarchy, Caring, and Space"
- Hamraie "Designing Collective Access: A_Feminist_Disability_Theory of Univeral Design"
- Hamraie "Universal_Design_Research_as_a New_Materialist_Practice"
- Tanya Titchkosky, selections from The Question of Access
- Jos Boys, Doing Disability Differently
- Rob Imrie, "Disability, embodiment and the meaning of the home"
Week 10 ( Dec 4): Networked and Distributed Care
Readings:
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Michael Hardey, "'E-health': the Internet and the transformation of patients into consumers and producers of health knowledge," Information, Communication & Society 4:3 2001 - Ofelia Schutte, "Dependency Work, Women, and the Global Economy" in Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen Feder, edThe Subject of Care
- Gunther Eysenbach,"Credibility of Health Information and Digital Media: New Perspectives and Implications for Youth"
Alternative/Additional Reading:
- Alfred Katz, "Self Help and Mutual Aid: an Emerging Social Movement?"
- Joëlle Kivits, "Everyday health and the internet: a mediated health perspective on health information seeking"
- Patricia Radin, "'To me, it's my life': Medical communication, trust, and activism in cyberspace"
Final Paper Due: Friday, December 13th by noon
