Capitalism and Care
SOC-STD 98WO
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Description
What is care? Who cares? And who cares? This course considers ethnographic approaches to the question of care as it is structured, valued, and contested within capitalism. Beginning with social science that has positioned care as a human experience that relies on moral processes, the course contemplates the idea of the human and care as a moral project through labor theory. Integrating foundational texts on care with feminist approaches to caring labor, we will examine the question of care through gendered, racialized, and classed dynamics and divisions. We contemplate care as an object, question, and method in social science. We will engage critical social theory, ethnography, history, and multimodal scholarship in our coursework together. Key scholars will include Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Maria De la Luz Ibarra, Nancy Fraser, Carla Freeman, Silvia Federici, Arlie Hochschild, and Viviana Zelizer. As crucial to our work together will be archiving the contemporary—producing ethnographic research papers on care as it is produced, practiced, and negotiated in our immediate social world. This is a junior tutorial.
Course Notes
This course will be lotteried and is open to non-concentrators if space permits. This course must be taken for a Letter Grade and cannot be taken Pass/Fail.
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