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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Collective Care"”.
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Collective Care for Carceral Transformation: Investigating Mutual Aid's Role in Building Decarceral Futures
This thesis examines how grassroots anti-carceral movements utilize mutual aid to support communities and advance abolitionist praxis. Drawing upon phenomenological interviews conducted with thirteen participants who have either provided or received mutual aid within grassroots organizations, it …
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Healing Bodies: Micro-sites of Sovereignty as Places for Refuge, Regeneration, and World-building
… communities engaging in regenerative land care practices within the Coast Salish Territories known today as Seattle, Washington. Representing the significant themes of Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty, social and environmental justice; the communities that I engage with explore the …
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Co-Governing Care in Astoria, Queens: The Role and Responsibility of the City in Supporting Community-Led Solidarity Networks
… to establish alternative infrastructures of collective care. Taking Astoria, Queens as a case, this thesis examines the political lessons that have emerged in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on what it takes to sustain community-led solidarity networks and considering City’s …
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Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss
… women and women of color—back into unpaid caregiving roles while simultaneously fueling Alt-Right digital and political movements among young men and women due to isolation. Through digital ethnography and historical analysis, this thesis shows how the tradwife aesthetic flourishes in an …
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A Praxis of Transformative Care: Centering Historically Resilient Students at a PWI
… as an individual struggle rather than a collective responsibility, obscuring systemic failures. At a predominantly white institution (PWI), historically resilient students, those from diverse backgrounds who have historically endured the structural load of institutional exclusion, carry …
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Not Meant to Be Read: The Stories They Silence, the Resistance That Speaks
… new forms of resistance.</p> <p>I argue that collective care is not a soft antidote, but a radical and necessary refusal. Care is a strategic survival praxis: a way of refusing the atomization and fracture that surveillance demands. I offer a theorization of the membrane—a permeable, resilient …
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Power through Black community and unity: Examining processes of resilience among Black youth
… essence, Black youth perceived sources of power, care, and strength when Black people from their community became involved and were united to address gun violence. This core process was associated with three sub-processes: Collective Care, Shared Racial Understanding, and Supportive Teen Services. …
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Habitar o Patrimônio: práticas cotidianas e disputas na preservação dos bens edificados
… paradigm shift: from institutional authority to collective care; from normative imposition to active listening; from monumental exception to the appreciation of ordinary life. Despite the relevance of institutional action, the experimentation of everyday practices transforms the preservation of …
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RePair: (im)possibilities of care-taking and making with care in times of isolation
… as a means to articulate strategies of care in times of isolation, with the full knowledge of an indefinite outcome that does not sully the endeavour. My former profession as a surgical nurse, a profession of collective care-taking, and profiled as an ‘essential worker' during this …
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The meanings and possibilities of sustainability for new left social movement organising in Ireland
… UK. I gather personal experiences of burn-out, care (collective-care and self-care), support structures and identity in social movements, to try and figure out what people have learned about sustainability through their lived experiences, tacit knowledge, workshops on the subjects and peoples …
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The Kleinian Subject in the Anthropocene: Posthumanism, Narration of Crisis, and the Ethics of Reparative Care
… anthropocentric crisis and subsequent calls for care-taking in our more-than-human world. First, I explore how the foundational arguments of the posthumanities resonate with the anxieties of Klein's paranoid-schizoid position and the subsequent defence mechanism of manic reparation. I humanize …
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Living with Serious Mental Illness, Police Encounters, and Relationships of Power: A Critical Phenomenological Study
… unequipped to provide meaningful mental health care. Police often serve as gatekeepers to the criminal legal system in the midst of encounters involving people living with serious mental illness. The literature that examines police decision-making amid these highly discretionary encounters has …
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“Envisioning Digital Sanctuaries”: An Exploration of Virtual Collectives for Nurturing Professional Development of Women in Technical Domains
… can seek support and guidance to navigate their careers. With the proliferation of modern communication infrastructure, virtual forums of conversation such as Reddit have emerged as key spaces that allow knowledge-sharing, provide opportunities for mobilizing collective action, and constitute …
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Social Network and Support Experiences of Older African Refugees in Calgary: A Visual Story
… often severs these traditional sources of care and solidarity, thereby heightening the precarity and isolation experienced by older African refugees in host countries. This study adopts a qualitative, arts-informed approach—specifically visual diagramming and storytelling—to explore the …