Search Results for self-care

... academic fields and activist and social media circles, with calls for self-care and adaptation as a means of resistance. While human and bioecological resilience is certainly advantageous, this article considers implications of resilience as a force that obscures and diverts attention away from relational...

... into the importance of self-care despite its susceptibility to neoliberal co-optation, the potentialities of self-care may be expanded outward to include other forms that push back against structural disadvantage. Care contains radical promise through a grounding in autonomous direct action and nonhierarchical...

...) are advised to engage in self-care and self-improvement. University students, staff, and faculty are advised to use counseling and meditation apps, seek out wellness opportunities, and/or employ coaches and advisers to manage their lives and well-being. This article takes these three ready-at-hand examples...

...Penny Harvey Newell Abstract What is the ontologizing effect of a care framework? And how can clay cease to insist on itself as an abstracted medium of self‐making? The artists Jade Montserrat, Chinasa Vivian Ezugha, and Cassils each work clay as a material in their performance. Their toil...

... Act toward peoples and communities most impacted by the pandemic is only one example of this intensified necropolitics. We focus here on conceptions and mobilizations of care and uncaring, and the catastrophe of the settler-capitalist state at this time. With all the talk about the need for self-care...

... complicity as a concept that structures practical ethics centered in abolitionism and nondisposability. Complicity is formulated as a mode of self-understanding that guides action, evading the social hierarchies demanded by a claim to innocence, uprooting (neo)liberal attitudes that look to evade friction...

... as a “natural unit” and thereby renders the social and political milieu within which this individual necessarily lives extrinsic or epiphenomenal with respect to life itself. To the extent that the bioscientific imagination of HIV/AIDS enfolds this individualizing and self-isolating framework as an essential...

... Sharpe calls a black ethics of care and self care. 7 Wake work involves an openness toward the pain of others; it involves the creation of sanctuary and respect for its boundaries; it acknowledges vulnerability and the need to protect and be protected. These are political affects and practices...

... of the way into the film, when the camera and narrative stray from a World Bank lawyer’s cross-­examination of the economic migrant, Madou Keita, to brief vignettes featuring acts of self-­care to the film-­within-­the-­film. At the tail end of Keita’s...

... be read as one useful primer on how to build, maintain, and enjoy a network of mutual care that is operated by and for brown queers. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 It’s Kinda Cold Out Here A Poem Assembled from Correspondence, with an Introduction Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas In 2002, José...

..., to disidentify was not “to pick and choose what one takes out of an identification,” but “to read oneself” out of “a moment, object, or subject that is not culturally coded to ‘connect’ with you.”19 In the chapter on Pedro, Muñoz extends this “reading out” of the self into an analytics of “care...

... of the political program. But within the smooth spaces of communicability that are made, remade, out of the cosmopolitan worlds of art and culture, lifestyle, consumerist pleasures, self-care, queer and trans aesthetics, media socialities, philosophy and humanistic learning, and the ethical sciences, which...

... of Short's pieces tells us what happens when we cannot (or are seldom permitted to) do these things. “Stop Beating Yourself Up” takes direct aim at everyday languages of self-care and mental wellness and subverts them. It is also a rarity in Short's oeuvre: a solo performance. In this piece, performed three...

... to town, it is a relatively small group of activists who remain consistently involved. A number of them are current or former UCSD students, working until exhaustion, while also fluent in the language of self-care and trigger warnings. In my experience, the latter are often a shorthand for students...

..., disciplinary practices of self-care, and monitored biomedical treatment. At work are new arts of extending life, of being medically treated, and of surviving economically as a diseased but cost-effective citizen...

...:00 PM, December 9, 2020 (2020). Town Hall, “Concerns about the College's Direction,” 6:30–8:30 PM, October 29, 2020 (2020). Oil on canvas, 6×11 in. each. Painting these canvasses has been an attempt to log memory, as much as it is also a practice of self-care and preservation. Time has shifted...

... of the deportees’ suffering.” 46 Numerous photographs show the tasks of self-care in the camp—washing, cooking, eating, and cleaning, sometimes alone but often in groups. A series of photos document recreational activities, including a cluster that shows the camp’s soccer team competing against the local...

... of self-interest in an ostensibly free market—onto the private or intimate sphere. Non-market- based values and a culture of care were pathologized: with the rise of the concept of codependency, cost-benefit analysis replaced caring...

..., a shape worthy of pride. At the core of this moral tradition, according to Dworkin, are the values of autonomy and self-respect, values which entail that life- defining decisions, including those pertaining to the medical care one 42...

... of communication.  — Toby Miller, “Introducing . . . Cultural Citizenship” How does one inhabit the mediated body? Biopolitics and biosociality form crucial loci for exploring contemporary subjectivities, rationalities, technologies, forms of embodiment, forms of care for the “self...