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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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Blog Post (in Finnish): The Finnish politics discourse does not adequately understand the political economies of 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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Cover image of the book The Politics of Ailment: New approach to care, by Minna Zechner, Lena Näre, Olli Karsio, Antero Olakivi, Liina Sointu, Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania and Tiina Vaittinen, Policy Press

(Late post) A new book: The Politics of Ailment: A New Approach to Care

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...

(Late post) 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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Filipino nurses as enablers of the future welfare state: the global commodity chains of producing racialized care labour for ageing Finland Tiina Vaittinen, Margarita Sakilayan-Latvala and Päivi Vartiainen. INTRODUCTION The imagery of the high-resolution advert is collated by merging separate photo- graphs in one. They capture young health care professionals working in clinical hospital spaces. In one image, a slightly darker skinned male, a Filipino perhaps, looks at the camera with a stethoscope loosely hanging around his shoulders. A doctor perhaps. Below, another picture: an older man sitting in the wheelchair. A blonde nurse stands behind him and listens, together with the patient, as a young Asian female doctor explains some papers to both. In the third image, a fit, grey-haired Asian man lies in bed. A female nurse, Asian as well, sits by the bed, keeping him company. A thin monitor placed in front of them hints that the room is in a clinical, high-tech environment.....

(Late post) PostCaPE publication: Filipino nurses as enablers of the future welfare state: The global commodity chains of producing racialized care labour for ageing Finland

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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anni.kangas@tuni.fi
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