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Root number
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481830 |
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Semester
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FS2023 |
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Type of course
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Exercise |
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Allocation to subject
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Social Anthropology |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
BA (MA) Sachbereichs-/Regionalübung: Who cares? Anthropological perspectives on care in old age |
| Description |
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According to the World Health Organisation, the proportion of people over 60 in the world population is expected to double by 2050. This means that the need for care in old age will also increase. Countries like Switzerland are declaring a "care emergency" and are recruiting large numbers of care workers from abroad. Care has become a transnationally circulating resource; everyday care practices manifest the intertwining of the most intimate aspects of daily life with (global) political-economic processes (Buch 2015). In Switzerland, migrant women from economically weaker countries, who are recruited by profit-oriented agencies, provide a significant proportion of care and assistance at home. In this precarious labour market, global dependencies and inequalities along gender, class and ethnicity are (re)produced (Schilliger 2015). In the institutionalised context, professional care work is increasingly aligned according to rationalised productivity criteria. Staff shortages, time and budget pressures are part of the everyday life of employees in (health)care institutions. While the Covid pandemic has made the importance and value of care work socially visible, it has also contributed to its further precarisation.
In this course, we will look at different forms of paid and unpaid care work, using the example of care in old age. Based on theoretical and ethnographic texts, we analyse "care" as a moral and qualified practice and as a circulating and potentially scarce resource. We ask about the value of care and how and by whom it is defined. How can a care-economic perspective (feminist economics) contribute to the understanding of economics and social reproduction? Who performs care work and under what conditions? Who has access to appropriate care? What (power)relations underlie and result from care arrangements? How is increasing digitalisation in the health sector transforming care practice and care relationships? These and many other questions will be analysed and discussed in this course. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Dr.
Corinne Nicole Schwaller, Institute of Social Anthropology ✉
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ECTS
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5 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Tuesday 14:15-16:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F 006, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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