Natural Science 0239 - CARE: Doing, Knowing, Being

What counts as care? For whom? In what contexts? To what effects? In this course, we will draw on a range of ethnographic work, including cultural and linguistic anthropology, as well as feminist and indigenous theory, film, media, and activist literature to explore contemporary issues of care. In the three units of the class - doing, knowing, being - we will examine care as a concrete everyday practice, one that is rooted in and shapes ways of understanding the world, and which has far-reaching implications that both reproduce and resist multiple intersecting inequalities. We will explore methodology. We will ask political questions. We will encourage a deeper consideration of care, not only in research and scholarship, but also in the interdependent ways in which we live our lives. Keywords: Medicine, healthcare, decolonizing, embodiment

Environments and Change Students should generally expect to spend 5-10 hours a week on work outside of class time. The content of this course deals with issues of Race and Power.