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Postcape publication: Debating academic boycotts and cooperation in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine

22.8.2023
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Urban Political Economy Lectures

24.5.2023
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Wordcloud in shape of a plaster

Presentation on postcapitalism and critical aesthetics at NNMHR in April 2023 (Online, admission FREE)

1.3.2023
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Senior woman looking at an incontinence pad

Conference presentation (in Finnish): An introduction to socially, economically and ecologically sustainable continence care

17.2.2023
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Blog Post (in Finnish): The financialization of care in old age care

17.2.2023
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PostCaPE publication (bilingual): Utopias from the Genital Limits: What if Pelvic Floor Health was taken Seriously?

17.2.2023
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An AI produced image of non-normative shape of hands and fingers entangled with one another. A collage of several pictures.

PostCaPE publication (in Finnish): From feminist ethics of care to the ethics of care needs

17.2.2023
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Image of the article cover page with text: Tiina Vaittinena, Eveliina Asikainenb, Anna Ilona Rajalac , Tuulia Lahtinend & Minna TörnäväeEkohyvinvointivaltion katveessa: Aikuisvaippojen puheenparret suomalaisessa hyvinvointivaltiossa. Shadowing the shadows of the ecowelfare state: Listening to the adult incontinence pads' parlance in the Finnish welfare stateAdult incontinence, both urinary and faecal, are common conditions. Incontinence, however, and the pads utilised for its management, are silenced. Like waste in the welfare state, they are in the shadows of wellbeing and overshadowed by it. Various behavioural norms make them invisible and unspeakable: something that should not disturb the administrative order. Pad waste is doubly in the shadows. The incontinence pads thus mark the most silenced corners of the welfare state. When envisioning the ecowelfare state, mapping such silences...

PostCaPE publication (in Finnish): Shadowing the shadows of the ecowelfare state: Listening to the adult incontinence pads' parlance in the Finnish welfare state

17.2.2023
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Article An Ethics of Needs: Deconstructing Neoliberal Biopolitics and Care Ethics with Derrida and Spivak Tiina Vaittinen Global Health and Social Policy, Health Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, 33100 Tampere, Finland; tiina.vaittinen@tuni.fi Abstract: The body in need of care is the subaltern of the neoliberal epistemic order: it is that which cannot be heard, and that which is muted, partially so even in care ethics. In order to read the writing by which the needy body writes the world, a new ethics must be articulated. Building on Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s notions of subalternity and epistemic violence, critical disability scholarship, and corporeal care theories, in this article I develop an ethics of needs. This is an ethical position that seeks to read the world that care needs write with the relations they enact. The ethics of needs deconstructs the world with a focus on those care needs that are presently responded to with neglect, indifference, or even violence: the absence of care. Specifically, the ethics of needs opens a space—a spacing, an aporia—for a more ethical politics of life than neoliberal biopolitics can ever provide, namely, the politics of life of needs. Keywords: ethics of care; corporeality; the body; biopolitics; deconstruction; ethics of needs

(Late post) PostCaPE Publication: An Ethics of Needs: Deconstructing Neoliberal Biopolitics and Care Ethics with Derrida and Spivak

17.2.2023
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Image of the webinar advert at https://www.nari.net.au/Event/seminars-in-ageing-061222. Webinar name: The limits and ethics of autonomy and choice in older people who are care-dependent. Webinar description: About the presentation This special end-of-year seminar brings together three researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds whose research draws attention to the limits and ethics of autonomy and choice in older people who require assistance with everyday personal care, particularly transgressive intimate care. The researchers present findings from their individual programs of research that illuminate cultures of care in institutional care settings that privilege practices of containment, restriction, and restraint and inadvertently undermine the autonomy of people who are care-dependent. Using continence care as an exemplar, they will argue for an ethic of care that recognises the reciprocity inherent in caregiving relationships and reframing the concept of autonomy to accommodate the needs and dependency of the care-dependent individual and upholds their dignity. Link to the recording of the webinar.

Webinar Talk: Relational autonomies: Rethinking the concept autonomy through intimate dementia care

17.2.2023
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anni.kangas@tuni.fi
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