Care as social organization
Creating, maintaining and dissolving significant relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2401900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tatjana Thelen (University of Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 497-515 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1463499615600893 |
| OpenAlex | W2216161547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 124 |
| References cited | 67 |
Although increasingly debated in public, scholarly discourses on care remain frag- mented. This is not only due to the scientific division of labor, but also to different national research traditions as well as to categories that link predefined relations to specific practices. In this article I set out to establish care practices as vital elements of social organization in order to overcome commonplace dichotomies such as private-public, good-bad, modern-traditional, and micro-macro. In order to facilitate making care a central element of anthropological theory, I revisit diverse theoretical frameworks from Marxism and feminism to disability, social security and humanitarianism studies. With the decline of Marxist anthropology, the awareness it once raised regarding `public' aspects of care has virtually vanished. Today practices of care are mostly discussed in kinship debates, with the result that the importance of care for other social relations is underestimated. Finally, I propose a processual conceptualization of care with a focus on practices that can enhance our understanding of the links and overlaps between relationships that are usually analysed within distinct spheres of social life, such as economics and politics
Conceptualization · Dichotomy · Epistemology · Feminism · Kinship · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Law
“Robust, Serious Work”
‘If trust breaks, everything ends’
Psychometrics as moral labour
Navigating constraints
Pod jednou střechou
Transforming care
Care as social action
Care for neighbors and care on paper
Doing Human Service Ethnography
Coloniality, care, and exclusion
Queer Precarity, Moralization, and Housing Distress in a Collapsing Istanbul
Infancia y cuidado. Reflexiones críticas desde perspectivas relacionales
Freiwilligkeit und Selbstorganisation in sozialistischen Rotkreuzgesellschaften
Organising Food Systems Through Ecologies of Care
“We can’t allow ourselves to fall ill”
Vietnamese Carescapes in the Making
Care as a Frame for Understanding the Mutual Constitution of State and Kinship
Communicating Care
Informal Care among Men and Women Aged 50 + in 25 European Countries
When scientists study panda kin recognition
Who is and who should be caring for urban food systems? A feminist ethics of care perspective on the case of Barcelona
Care (Mis)match
The State, the Household, the Voluntary Sector
Moralities of care in later life
Approaching Actually Existing Neoliberalisms
Kin Enough
Of manners and hedgehogs
Care, and the less of it
From translocalization to commuterization
Ageing at home
Diagnosing hikikomori
Age-Inscriptions and Social Change
It Takes Another Kind of Village
Recognizing Caregiving Fatigue in the Pandemic
Rethinking affects of care through power
Cuidados y derechos. El avance hacia la democratización de los cuidados
Theorizing the Real in Social Robot Care Technologies in Japan
Security strategies of indigenous women in Nenets Autonomous Region, Russia
Volunteering and care in old age
Fledgling Farms and Failing Health
Towards a care perspective on waste
Strangers in care
Collective Identity and Care Ethics
Taking Care of the Other
Older People Reimagining and Envisioning Preventive Care Through Land Acquisition
Social Media and the Commodification of Attention/Inattention in the Changing Egyptian Belly Dance Industry
Praying through the pandemic
Disentangling disablism and ableism
Thinking the city through work
When will we decolonise the positions disabled people should hold
Dirty politics and political care in local politics
Kinship Idioms and Care-Control Dynamics in Hungarian Co-ethnic Philanthropy
Caring Differently
Care in the Anthropocene
Care and Control in Urban Brazil
A politics of care in urban public housing
Legal pluralism and the production of (un)certainty in lived migration orders
Why Care Now” in Forced Migration Research
Care and the Moral Self
Contested parenting and its affective economies
On the common sense of social reproduction
Social reproduction, interrupted? Motherly labour, educational aspirations, and the work for another life
Narrating the caring fatigue
Care as tyranny
"Introdução Dôssie " Entre o íntimo e o político
Switching between oversight and support mode
Images of Care
I racconti del corpo. Tre storie di maternità di “madres solteras
Ritual Care
Stepping in the Gap to Make Family
Não mudou quase nada
Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care
Caring (for) relations
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far
Day-care centres for older migrants
Angolan children's experiences in residential centers
The Circulation of Blood and Care
Contesting Religious Boundaries with Care
Justice, Emotion, and Belonging
Almost Nothing Has Changed
A Mother's Experience of Asylum
Siblings, comrades, friends
The anti-racist potential of care - political dimensions of women's engagement in voluntary refugee support work in Germany
Caring for Equality? Administering Ambivalence in Kindergarten
Emigration and the care of older people 'left behind
Interdependence
Negotiating Care and Control
Hiperprivatização do cuidado
O Cuidado além do Reparo
Cartografía De La Desigualdad Alimentaria en Lima Sur
Conceptualizing care practices in women's lives
The intimate public of relational welfare in Milan
Living together
Political belonging through elderly care
On waging the ideological war
Distributed agency
Communities of care
I volunteer at home too!' Gendering affective citizenship
Everybody Takes Care of Everybody
Public and private in thought and practice
Feeding the family
The undeserving poor
Family obligations and social change
Care/Sorge
Kinship and the Social Order.
Kinship and the Social Order
Casualties of CareImmigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France
Casualties of Care
The Managed Heart
The Logic of Care
Life Beside Itself
Provincializing Europe
Trust
Privatizing Poland
Time and the Other
The Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology
A caring society? Care and the dilemmas of human service in the 21st century
Migration and Social Reproduction at Critical Junctures in Family Life Course
Caring for the 'Holy Land'
Being Unemployed in Northern Ireland
The Gift of Generations
The Kinning of Foreigners
A Labour of Love
The Pastoral Clinic
The Politics of Disablement
Negotiating Family Responsibilities
Citizenship and the Ethics of Care
The Managed Heart
In a Different Voice
The Gift
The Culture of Politics
My Assistant and I
She's Like a Daughter to Me’
Professional caring
Family Time and Industrial Time
In and beyond New Labour
Between Kinship and the State. Social Security and Law in Developing Countries
Care, Work and Feeling
Aging in the past
The Moral Neoliberal
Family Time and Industrial Time
Horizons of long-distance intimacies
Caring for men in contemporary Russia
Veteran care
Katja's canteen
Social security and care after socialism
Making Kin
The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth
The Nature of Nurture
Challenging the Need for Gratitude
Shortage, fuzzy property and other dead ends in the anthropological analysis of (post)socialism
The Concept of Caring in Feminist Research
Men
Love's Labours Lost? Feminism, the Disabled People's Movement and an Ethic of Care
(Inter)Dependence, Needs and Care
Emerging Theories of Care Work
The concept of social care and the analysis of contemporary welfare states
Spatializing States
| Unique citing works | 124 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 12,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 120 |