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The importance of the Welfare after Covid-19 Pandemics: For a longue durée history of collective care | title | The importance of the Welfare after Covid-19 Pandemics: For a longue durée history of collective care |
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| start_date | 2023/04/25 |
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| schedule | 12h30-14h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle de conférence |
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| summary | The pandemic has been a crash test for many ideas and exacerbated tensions and unresolved issues within mainstream views of the relation between biology and society. I take aim at the persisting allure of Foucault’s biopolitics paradigm not just highlighting its empirical shortcomings but proposing an alternative model. A history of civic and public care in the Mediterranean area and the Middle east undermines Foucault’s claim of a major opposition of Greek citizenship and the Christian pastorate. It also challenges his argument that only after the 18th century these two alien models merged to care for the health of populations. I offer instead a longue durée history of urban carers who are both religious and secular, deal with ecological crisis and the facilitation of social interaction. This story reveals the welfare’s strong roots in premodern and early modern practices of collective care, contradicting Foucault’s claim that the eighteenth century is a turning point for a politicization of medicine and the birth of biopolitics. In conclusion, I go to a more-than-human history of welfare looking at emerging evidence of group-care and coordination in large group of insects, fish, birds, and mammals including health behaviours and hygiene practices in primates. |
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| responsibles | Naibo, Vorms, Kistler, Ardourel |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/04/19 15:26 UTC |
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