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Saavedra, Paz (2020) Caring for the past in traditional practices of care. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis introduces the idea of caring for the past in a way that makes visible the complex entanglement of power and agency in traditional practices of care. Using and combining key ideas from the fields of social studies of time and feminist studies of care, it analyses interviews and fieldwork observations conducted with two groups of carers in Ecuador throughout different settings. One group practices agroecology and the other practises traditional midwifery. The thesis starts by examining how different pasts are embedded and becoming meaningful in carers’ relations to plants, animals, people, and other non-human beings. The discussion then moves on to consider the re-configuration of these traditional practices of care when confronted with a different setting where power-relations are deeply enrooted in colonial histories. The different stories illustrate what is termed as a ‘past multiple’ whereby care maintains vital connections among individuals across time and space, including power relations. In doing so, the research highlights both the agency of carers in the connection to different pasts and the power structures that care itself reproduces and maintains. Moreover, the research critically engages with detemporalised readings of the practices that render the labour of the carers invisible. Thus highlighting the contribution of doing politics of care in the context of traditional practices of care. In sum, this thesis contributes to and extends the scholarship on care by introducing the notions of detemporalisation and temporal structures as a conceptual lens through which to examine social spaces where a multiple temporal ontology is continually re-enacted.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics
S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Midwifery -- Ecuador -- History, Traditional farming -- Ecuador, Agriculture -- Ecuador -- History, Agricultural ecology -- Ecuador.
Official Date: January 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
January 2020UNSPECIFIED
Institution: University of Warwick
Theses Department: Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Thesis Type: PhD
Publication Status: Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: Uprichard, Emma ; Calvillo, Nerea
Format of File: pdf
Extent: iv, 209 leaves : 1 colour map
Language: eng

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