CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Project title: Communities of care in human crisis
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: University Pompeu Fabra
• Country: Spain (ES)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  ethics of care maintenance activities

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  What are we looking for Our research group is integrated by historians and archaeologists analysing colonial process across World History from a decolonial and depatriarcal perspective. Maintenance activities (see description of the project) are often perceived as being confined to the domestic sphere, thereby limiting their presence and impact to family life. However, we believe that their scope extends far beyond this realm. Care is essential wherever people interact among each other, and it plays a crucial role in critical situations of any kind, as it permits life to keep going on. We are interested in collaborating with teams that explore the significance of maintenance activities in other challenging contexts, including, but not limited to, wars, slavery, migration crises, pandemics, and labor market crises. We welcome collaboration with experts in social ecology, economics, anthropology, psychology, nursing, sociology, communication, politics, and neurosciences who are studying the importance of care in copying crises. Furthermore, we are open to incorporating partners who are interested in exploring the third "Crisis" theme (The representation of crisis), by studying alternative ways of representing crisis that emphasize care activities.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Communities of Care in Human Crises Our project aims to explore how maintenance activities and the ethics of care associated with them represent an essential strategy for mitigating the negative effects of crises in diverse situations. Maintenance activities refer to a range of everyday life practices—such as caregiving, cooking and food processing, textile manufacturing, child-rearing and socialization, and the organization of residential spaces—and the values, attitudes, capacities, behaviors, and social dynamics that are instrumental in creating, sustaining, and re-creating social life. Our team will focus on the social crises caused by the impact of colonial processes on Indigenous communities and the strategies employed by these communities to navigate and survive these challenges. Maintenance activities played a fundamental role within these tactics and will be studied in different colonial contexts across history including communities in the Ancient Mediterranean, the Modern Caribbean, and the Modern and Contemporary Pacific. Our project will primarily address the “Crisis” theme: Crisis and the human response. More specifically, it will explore the question: How did assertions of belonging (in this case, connected to the community of care) respond to crises? Additionally, it will align with one of the main objectives of the program by exploring the impact of culture in shaping resilience in the face of crisis.

Sandra Montón-Subías

• Organisation: University Pompeu Fabra
• Position: ICREA Research professor
• E-mail: sandra.monton@upf.edu
• Phone: 665271810
• Web: aberigua.upf.edu/, www.upf.edu/web/cgym www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/Sandra-Monton-Subias-326, www.upf.edu/web/gracme