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CFP: Care and the Art of Dwelling (Space and Culture Journal)

Care and the Art of Dwelling: Bodies, Technologies and Home

Call for Papers

Guest Eds. Domenech, M., Schillmeier, M.

Thinking about care practices entails a reflection concerning

practices of space. Heidegger's notion of `dwelling as caring'

addresses this relationship. In this vein we are interested in

rethinking the concepts and practices of care in contemporary

societies. This special issue focuses on new forms of spatialization

in and through which care is performed, questioned and altered.

Emerging forms of spatialization, we suggest, visualize care as an art

of dwelling that constantly relates humans and non-humans. Care as an

art of dwelling, then, enacts being-at-home by re-assembling bodies,

emotions, technologies and places in highly specific and complex ways.

Space and Culture invites submissions of papers for a special issue

devoted to an exploration of the above topic. Contributions drawing on

all fields of the cultural and the social sciences, medical sociology,

disability studies and STS are welcome focusing primarily (though not

exclusively) on issues such as:

- Blurring of boundaries between home and institutional care (the

institutionalization of the house and the domestication of the

hospital)

- Dwelling with technology: Care technologies and their spatialities

(telecare, telemedicine, constant care, etc)

- Care spaces and embodiment

- Spaces of control/freedom and surveillance

- Fixed and dynamic spaces of care: Mobility and immobility

- Spaces of in/dependence, autonomy and vulnerability

- Spaces of safety, security and risk.

- Emotional work and spaces of intimacy

- Feeling at home and the sense of place

Abstracts due: May 15, 2008

Manuscripts due: September 15, 2008

All information and communications concerning submissions should be

addressed to: space@ntu.ac.uk Joost van Loon, Editor and Professor of