Seminar: MA: Care Debates - Details

Seminar: MA: Care Debates - Details

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Course name Seminar: MA: Care Debates
Course number MA_APT
Semester SoSe 2026
Current number of participants 21
Home institute Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Tuesday, 26.05.2026 12:15 - 13:45, Room: (Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum)
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch

Rooms and times

(Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum)
Tuesday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly (15x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Care concerns everyone, and everyone seems to have roughly an idea of what the term care means. However, if one looks more closely at the social, economic and political contexts in which care is given and received, and restricted or rejected, it becomes more difficult to define exactly what care is. Anthropological perspectives are particularly valuable here because they always consider discourses and practices of care as distinct processes unfolding within contexts. Anthropologists explore the ethnographic particularities of care contexts and ask, for example, how care relates to, and connects with, reciprocity, dignity, and dependence, vulnerability and in-/equality. Let’s take a closer look in this course on how findings from sociocultural anthropology shape and shake current debates on care across societies and across disciplines.

Recommended Reading: Mattingly, C. & P. McKearney 2023. Care. In J. Laidlaw (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 561-590.

Modulleistung: Hausarbeit
Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.