Towards an affects of care

A cross-national study of university caring practices during Covid-19

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4854233
AutoresAkari Nakai Kidd (0000-0002-1456-294X, Deakin University, autor de correspondencia), Jan Smitheram (0000-0002-2241-9350, Victoria University of Wellington)
Año2025
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas40-58
Fecha de publicación2025-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2024.2380271
OpenAlexW4400776972
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas74

This paper joins the conversation around care and maintenance through an account of affects of care in architecture. Affect and its binding power allows us to trace how care releases bodies, including the architectural body, into performative potentials – affect produced, exchanged and accumulated in care work. We present an empirical study across two universities (architecture studios) that provide insights into the complexities of caring and facilitating care by listening in to the multiple care-taking voices and care-engagements, within the context of COVID-19. We draw out the intimacies or bindings that are generated by and through such care acts in three interrelated ways: affective-material tinkering, stuttering temporalities and promise of care and its loss. In conclusion, we suggest how caring for a building is far from uniform and offer some future direction as to how an affects of care account can be helpful in studying diverse modes of (being in) the world of care in/through the built environment

Active listening · Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Care work · Context (archaeology · Conversation · Performative utterance · Political science · Sociology · Temporalities · Visual arts · Work (physics · Communication · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Architecture