Walking, mothering and care: a sensory ethnography of journeying on-foot with children in Wollongong, Australia

Clement, Susannah; Waitt, Gordon R

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2017.1372376

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“…More recently, there has been a shift to conceptualising care as a sociomaterial practice that takes place in conjunction with things in the city such as pavements (Kullman, ), strollers (Clement & Waitt, , ), cars (Waitt & Harada, ), housing (Power, ; Power & Mee, 2019), and buildings (Bates, Imrie, & Kullman, ). We classify materialities of care research as a research that examines how objects, bodies, buildings, or materials are enrolled and how they shape the nature and possibility of care.…”

Section: Care and The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such research can cross‐fertilise earlier feminist interest in how women's parenting responsibilities are shaped by urban design and transport (Dowling, ) with new ways of conceptualising embodied mobilities and materialities. Inspiration might be drawn from Clement and Waitt (, ), Waitt and Harada (), and Kullman () who uncover the sociomaterial relations of mobile urban care. Waitt and Harada (), for instance, describe how the culturally privatised space of the family car enables parenting.…”

Section: Toward a New Urban Geographical Theory Of Urban Caringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The car is a multifaceted assemblage that enables care in specific ways: Bodies are immobilised and held in relations of proximity, while the “acoustic qualities, the distance of the journey and coding of the car as an intimate, quasi‐private space, the movement, arrangement of car seats and music all contribute” to the way that family caring is practiced (Waitt and Harada, , p. 1094). Clement and Waitt () similarly describe the emergence of a “mother–child–pram assemblage” that enables mobile mothering. Different prams bring different affective and material affordances, offering the potential to keep children safe, carry heavy things, exercise and settle a child, while enabling “mothers to care for themselves through mitigating against future stress” (Clement & Waitt, , p. 1192).…”

Section: Toward a New Urban Geographical Theory Of Urban Caringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Clement and Waitt () similarly describe the emergence of a “mother–child–pram assemblage” that enables mobile mothering. Different prams bring different affective and material affordances, offering the potential to keep children safe, carry heavy things, exercise and settle a child, while enabling “mothers to care for themselves through mitigating against future stress” (Clement & Waitt, , p. 1192). Also exploring walking, Kullman () considers pavements as a lively urban infrastructure that are provocative of urban care for the children and dogs that navigate Helsinki.…”

Section: Toward a New Urban Geographical Theory Of Urban Caringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cities of care: A platform for urban geographical care research

Power

Williams

2019

Geography Compass

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This paper develops an agenda for a broadened conceptualisation of urban caring within geographical research. We open by identifying three existing domains of urban care research: examining spaces of care, materialities of care, and asking who are the subjects of care? We then synthesise three platforms that can be the foundation of a geographical theory and approach to urban care. Drawing from feminist care research and recent keystone pieces on urban caring, we argue, first, that there is a need for a broadened conceptualisation of urban care that emphasises the universal need for care and care that supports human and non-human flourishing. Second, we propose an expanded scale of urban care analysis that attends to the ways that lives are lived within and through the city. Third, we open up an analysis of where care is located in cities,arguing for the value of locating urban care beyond interpersonal care and care through welfare, to urban governance and planning, markets, and more-than-human materialities. We conclude by conceptualising how care might inform utopian dreamings for the just and caring city.We challenge urban geographers to think through the possibilities of care to transform cities. K E Y W O R D Scare, care policy, justice, markets, materiality, spaces of care, urban geography

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Section: Care and The Citymentioning

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Section: Toward a New Urban Geographical Theory Of Urban Caringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Toward a New Urban Geographical Theory Of Urban Caringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Toward a New Urban Geographical Theory Of Urban Caringmentioning

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Cities of care: A platform for urban geographical care research

Power

Williams

2019

Geography Compass

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“…This means that human designs and activities, and in this case care, develop through engagements with actors that are always more‐than‐human and are shaped through the creative presence of these actors. These might be tangible material objects and places, for example, the prams, cars, and drop‐in centres that have been the focus of recent care research (Clement & Waitt, , ; Conradson, ; Waitt & Harada, ), or less tangible or immaterial entities, atmospheres, policy frameworks (Bear, ; McFarlane, ; Swyngedouw, ), place‐based affects (Kraftl & Adey, ), and so on, that are productive of a sense of care. They may be spatially and temporally co‐present, or located in different timespaces, as expanded below.…”

Section: Assembling the Capacity To Care In Unequal Worldsmentioning

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Assembling the capacity to care: Caring‐with precarious housing

Power

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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In a period when care is being cast as an individual responsibility there is a need to invigorate analyses of caring capacity, of the factors and relations that make care possible. This paper develops caring-with as an analytic to guide analyses of caring capacity. Caring-with brings feminist care ethics together with assemblage thinking. It innovates from Tronto's identification of "caring with" as the fifth phase of care to figure care as a generative sociomaterial relation that is productive of and emergent through assemblages of actors who are not always supportive of care. Caring-with advances three frames for conceptualising caring capacity. First, caring-with situates care in a sociomaterial and performative frame.Second, it places care in a temporal frame, speaking to the historical and generative depth of relations that are the foundation and future of care. Third, it theorises the production and translation of care across space. These concepts are empirically examined through the caring experiences of single older women living in precarious housing in Sydney, Australia. Interviews with these women show how housing assemblages shape the emergent potential for care, co-constituting the capacity for individuals to take part in caring practices (for self and others) and to achieve basic care needs (including needs for food, energy, and appropriate housing). Caring-with provides a framework for conceptualising caring capacity in unequal worlds and illuminates the adaptive and creative agencies that generate and hold care together. It also points to new ways of conceptualising caring responsibility as a distributed achievement. Finally, caring-with suggests an approach to conceptualising housing within care research.

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