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Call for Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Compassion and Care: Emotions and Experience in the Care of Children through History’<\/strong>
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Deansgate, Manchester<\/strong>
23-24 March 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline<\/strong>: submissions should be emailed to Kate Gibson (University of Manchester) and Claudia Soares (Newcastle University)<\/strong> at compassionandcare2023@gmail.com<\/strong> by 30 October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The care system in the UK is under increasing pressure: systematic budget cuts, prolonged austerity, and sustained issues with staff recruitment, retention and burnout have all contributed to the crumbling of the nation\u2019s care agencies. Independent care reviews across the UK have highlighted the need to reform and \u2018reset\u2019 the system of children\u2019s social care, so that lifelong loving, supportive and nurturing relationships are placed at its heart. These reviews have occurred in the midst of growing demand for accountability and transparency in care processes and defence of the rights of Care Experienced people to access their records and know their history. Moreover, across the globe, carers and care work \u2013 usually designated female \u2013 have been underpaid, exploited, and devalued. Feminist scholarship on the ethics of care has long debated the invisibility and devaluing of care. But recent events such as the Covid-19 pandemic have highlighted just how central childcare systems are to the everyday functioning of society, requiring us to rethink the value of care work once again. Contemporary systems for children\u2019s care developed out of centuries of informal, familial, community, charitable and state-led practices. This long history has not yet received full scholarly attention, and it is both timely and relevant to focus on the diversity of care relationships and experiences in the past and present. Ideas and experiences of care in the past have implications for how we might envision a caring society and an ethics of care in the future. The vibrancy of scholarship in the history of emotions, the history of childhood and the recent return to the concept of \u2018experience\u2019 provide new opportunities to reconsider histories of care.<\/p>\n

This conference invites scholars and practitioners across disciplines, chronologies, and geographies to consider different forms and experiences of children\u2019s care. What caring means and entails is historically and culturally specific, and this conference aims to unpick how care has been perceived and experienced from the perspective of carers and care recipients at different moments in time and across varied locations. The conference seeks to privilege the consideration of emotion and experience within care relationships, and the affective dimensions associated with care practices. We anticipate that the conference will appeal to scholars at all levels (inc. postgraduates and ECRs) working across disciplines, in the humanities, social sciences and beyond. We encourage diversity in methodological approaches, geographical scope, temporal period, and religious\/spiritual backgrounds. We would particularly like to hear from Care Experienced people and current practitioners across children\u2019s social care and policy, in seeking to make connections between care past and present.<\/p>\n

Proposals for 20-minute papers or panels of three speakers are welcome. Topics might include:<\/p>\n