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This article examines the care politics of El-Nadeem Center for the Psychological Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture, an organization established in Cairo in 1993 by leftist politically active psychiatrists, largely women. It shows what it looks like to provide care when violence, especially torture, is immanent. El-Nadeem’s practitioners quickly learned from their clients that healing often required public interventions on a client’s behalf and not simply individual psychological treatment. Radical care politics is central to El-Nadeem’s work and developed dialectically over decades in response to client needs and sociopolitical conditions in the Egyptian, African, and Arab contexts in which it works. The article discusses El-Nadeem’s establishment and evolution, including its expansive understanding of violence and trauma; its nonabstract orientation to embodiment in its therapeutic practices and understanding of psychic, somatic, and social health as closely connected; how its treatment protocols approach the temporalities of trauma; and its public activism, which challenges the paradoxical coexistence of social normalization and disavowal of violence. The article is based on analysis of interviews I conducted in 2014 with El-Nadeem psychiatrists, organizational publications, and a 2003 Arabic-language feminist psychological handbook, The Psyche Ails and the Body Suffers, authored by one of El-Nadeem’s founders. It shows that historical context and material conditions shape the forms of suffering and care politics, although context and conditions are often either evacuated or superficially addressed in feminist concepts produced in the Anglophone imperialist core. The article invites more consideration of how vulnerabilities and suffering that require care are created by extractive and repressive systems at multiple scales, including capitalism and imperialism, and more critical focus on these systems.
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Previous articleNext article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreBahar Aldanmaz is a PhD student in sociology at Boston University with a focus on global health, development, and menstrual justice. Her dissertation research examines the experiences of local NGOs providing humanitarian response to women and LGBTQ+ survivors of the Kahramanmaraş earthquake. As a cofounder of the We Need to Talk association, Bahar is committed to advancing menstrual justice in Turkey. She writes on reproductive justice and has been published in Think Global Health, Health Policy, and Kadın/Woman 2000. Bahar also coauthored a children’s book titled Let’s Talk: Menstruation, which is dedicated to Turkish-speaking children and their caregivers.Chiara Bercu (she/her) is associate project director at Ibis Reproductive Health, where she manages both qualitative and quantitative research, primarily with abortion accompaniment groups and safe abortion hotlines in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Chiara is committed to building shared power and decision making between researchers and activist partners to ensure that their needs and the needs of the individuals they serve are centered throughout the research process. She has recently published in Sexual Reproductive Health Matters, BMC’s Reproductive Health, and Frontiers in Global Women’s Health.Linda M. Blum is professor of sociology at Northeastern University. She studies the intersections of gender and race; disability and embodiment; and families, work, and inequality. She is the author of Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States (Boston: Beacon, 1999), and Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality (New York: New York University Press, 2015); recent publications include “Gender and Disability Studies,” in Companion to Women’s and Gender Studies, ed. Nancy A. Naples (Oxford: Wiley, 2020); “Narratives of Care and Citizenship,” in New Narratives of Disability: Constructions, Clashes, and Controversies, ed. Sara E. Green and Donileen R. Loseke (Bingley: Emerald Insight, 2020); and “Women Organized against Sexual Harassment: A Grassroots Struggle for Title IX Enforcement,” with Ethel Mickey, Feminist Formations 30, no. 2 (2018): 175–201.Jennifer Jihye Chun is a labor sociologist whose research explores the interconnected worlds of gender, race, ethnicity, migration, and labor under global capitalism. She is associate professor in Asian American studies and chair of international development studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the award-winning book Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and
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In the European migration regime, unaccompanied minors, by virtue of their status as children, are conceived as deserving of care and incapable of giving care or taking care of themselves. They must then submit to the care (provided by adults) granted by the regime. In this article, I show how those exposed to the “antipolitics” of “regimes of care” outlined by Miriam Ticktin are often already engaged in what Ticktin has defined as a “decolonial feminist commons.” Using the subject of the unaccompanied minor as a lens, I demonstrate how young African men, bureaucratically labeled as such once they arrive in Italy, have been using their own collective form of care to contest their marginalized position within the unjust and violent global border regime and to hold fast to their dreams of a better future. Through focus on a specific reception center, “Giallo,” I suggest that the care provided therein, together with the young men’s interaction with this space, creates room for the young men to maneuver to contest antipolitics and maintain hope for a better future. In presenting such an argument, I recognize the asymmetrical power relations and structural inequalities inherent in care, but here I focus on moments of resistance and the alternative practices of radical care that the young men practice despite, through, and alongside unequal power structures. In doing so, I explicate the ongoing value of feminist concepts of care and caring, in particular when in dialogue with critical race and queer scholarship.
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The study of colorblind racism has been central to understanding why racial inequalities persist in schools. However, I argue that merely increasing racial awareness through school policies, official and unofficial, does not alleviate educational racial inequalities. Ethnographic data from a progressive suburban high school reveal that some teachers’ responses to struggling marginalized students, in environments that promote racial equity, may be characterized as palliative schooling. Palliative schooling has two interrelated, core features: it prioritizes students’ immediate comfort as a form of caring, and it assumes a sense of hopelessness regarding what one can do to improve students’ situations. In this high school, entrenched in racial disparities and racial meanings, palliative schooling only reinforces social inequalities rather than disrupting them. I argue that the school’s racial equity strategies and the structural inequalities of the broader society underlie the individual practices of palliative schooling. My findings challenge what counts as and what facilitates “real” caring because progressive agendas may instead sustain social inequalities through a counterintuitive bond between caring and hopelessness.
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Karen A. Morris, Adam J. Greteman, Nic M. Weststrate
While an increasing awareness of the economic, legal, emotional, social, and physical precarity of LGBTQ+ people has sparked new laws, policies, and medical and social services, their epistemic needs are just as urgent. For many decades, young people growing up in the United States have been systematically denied access to LGBTQ+ histories, knowledges, and older adults through homophobic and transphobic gatekeeping within education, community, and family networks. As a result, LGBTQ+ folks come of age in relative social isolation, lacking tools to understand their experiences within broader sociohistorical contexts and recognition from others as valuable sources of knowledge. In this article, we explore the complexities of epistemic care as relational work designed to counter legacies of injustice through The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project. The project—a partnership between an LGBTQ+ community center, an art and design college, and a public research university—brings together racially, socioeconomically, and gender-diverse cohorts of LGBTQ+ younger (eighteen to twenty-nine years old) and older adults (sixty-two to eighty-four years old) for dialogue, art making, and shared meals. Over time, it has evolved as a collaborative hybrid pedagogical/research experiment in which participants become partners in education, community formation, and knowledge production. Interweaving ethnographic narrative from dialogues with theoretical discussion, we connect our work to earlier feminist and gay liberation consciousness-raising practices (1960s–80s) and feminist and queer scholarship on care ethics in both education and research methodologies to think about epistemic justice work as a form of collective self-care.
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Abortion in the global South is highly restricted. The social, economic, and health problems engendered by this restriction are often relegated to the discipline of public health and considered a technical problem to be solved through policy change, international pressure, and Northern aid. In recent years, however, local activists around the world have responded to legal restrictions by counseling and supporting abortion seekers online, by phone, and in person in self-managing their own abortions. In Latin America, this direct-action tactic, known as abortion accompaniment, is led largely by self-identified feminist collectives. In this article, we examine the feminist orientation of abortion accompaniment, considering how the model engages with a feminist ethic of care, reflexivity, and intersectionality—and to what effect. Drawing on in-depth interviews with abortion accompaniers in Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador, we show that abortion accompaniment cannot be understood as merely a response to legal restrictions. Rather, accompaniment is activism rooted in a feminist approach. The model of abortion care implemented by accompaniment groups includes direct action, justice, and listening. We argue that abortion accompaniment is a unique and innovative feminist praxis that is shaped by both previous feminist intellectual commitments and feminist emotional connections forged through the abortion process, resulting in a reflexive feminist theoretical model that centers care and exists fully outside the state and the formal health care system.
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This article argues that meaningful solidarity relies less on our ability to imagine ourselves in the place of others and more on our openness to encounter difference through the messy doing of care summoned by acuerpar. The verb acuerpar—to give one’s body—is a central political term in the vocabulary of decolonial feminist resistance in Central America. It names the collective care practices that bodies undertake to hold space for each other and the land in the face of capitalist extraction and rampant gendered and racialized violence. Against disembodied forms of solidarity that entreat us to bestow empathy on disadvantaged others by “putting ourselves in another’s shoes,” acuerpar invites us to stand side by side in our own bodies and remake the world through mutual aid. It is a call to be with rather than be in another’s shoes. Drawing on the work of Indigenous feminist thinkers from Central America, I show how acuerpar moves us away from colonizing models of coalition building that romanticize sentimental connection as the remedy for social ills. I do so by reflecting on the embodied support and radical self-care that took place at a feminist encampment in Honduras demanding justice for the murder of Indigenous Lenca organizer Berta Cáceres.
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