For Love or Money: Economies, Affects, and Practices of Care

3 units

This course looks at the intersections of economies, affects, and practices in shaping understandings of - and possibilities for - relationships of care. We will look at anthropological theories of care and cross-cultural ethnographies of caring practice to challenge notions of care as a self-evident good. An attention to care raises questions about who has access to care, who should provide care, and who is worthy of care, as well as the institutional structures that shape possibilities for relationships of care between people, as well as non-human others