ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | PORTUGUÊS
TEPOZTLÁN, MORELOS, MÉXICO | July 20 - 27, 2022
Call for participants
2022 Application Form
DEADLINE TO APPLY: JANUARY 15, 2022
In its seventeenth year, the Tepoztlán Institute invites participants to think about the politics and practices of care. How have concepts, politics, and practices of care been imagined, built, destroyed, deployed, weaponized, and/or reinvented from the colonial period to the present?
The crises of recent years have made the question of care impossible to ignore. From the ongoing injustice of policing and police violence, which has brought forth renewed attention to the failures of the state to “protect and serve,” to the natural disasters and fallout wrought by the acceleration of climate change as well as the rampant extractivism of the hemisphere’s natural resources, to the (mis)management of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, to the dysfunctional interdependence between limited access to healthcare and the trans-hemispheric drug trade, the simultaneous absence and presence of care, as well as its uneven distribution, has perhaps never been more apparent.
We invite reflections that address the links between the politics and practices of care across disciplines, regions, and temporalities. Questions may include: How do questions of care intersect with practices and policies of governance? How do the politics and practices of care extend beyond the human to relations with non-human subjects and agents? How is care mobilized as an act of rebellion and resistance? How can attention to practices of care make visible subjects and experiences that have been historically invisibilized? What can attention to economies and networks of care reveal about colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, racism, ableism, heterosexism, misogyny, and patriarchy? How might practices of care alert us to broader changes over time or challenge long-standing assumptions of historical change? Which pasts do we care about, be it for telling their stories or memorializing their histories? Which pasts don’t we care about enough to transform into heritage sites or statues?
Contributions may also include questions about the undersides of care, including dependency and paternalism; care in the wake of institutional or infrastructural failures; the labor of care under capitalism; care in community organization and resistance; the race and gender politics of care; care as a form of healing and survival; and the assumptions that undergird the very notion of care. Scholars, activists, and artists may address any historical period, and approaches may draw from a wide range of fields, including race and ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, feminist perspectives, Marxist studies, and poststructural theory. Particularly relevant would be papers that seek to understand the relationship between individual and community in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the strategies that confront this and other crises across the continent. We are also interested in papers that explore care praxis as a form of resistance and survival.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: JANUARY 15, 2022
In its seventeenth year, the Tepoztlán Institute invites participants to think about the politics and practices of care. How have concepts, politics, and practices of care been imagined, built, destroyed, deployed, weaponized, and/or reinvented from the colonial period to the present?
The crises of recent years have made the question of care impossible to ignore. From the ongoing injustice of policing and police violence, which has brought forth renewed attention to the failures of the state to “protect and serve,” to the natural disasters and fallout wrought by the acceleration of climate change as well as the rampant extractivism of the hemisphere’s natural resources, to the (mis)management of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, to the dysfunctional interdependence between limited access to healthcare and the trans-hemispheric drug trade, the simultaneous absence and presence of care, as well as its uneven distribution, has perhaps never been more apparent.
We invite reflections that address the links between the politics and practices of care across disciplines, regions, and temporalities. Questions may include: How do questions of care intersect with practices and policies of governance? How do the politics and practices of care extend beyond the human to relations with non-human subjects and agents? How is care mobilized as an act of rebellion and resistance? How can attention to practices of care make visible subjects and experiences that have been historically invisibilized? What can attention to economies and networks of care reveal about colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, racism, ableism, heterosexism, misogyny, and patriarchy? How might practices of care alert us to broader changes over time or challenge long-standing assumptions of historical change? Which pasts do we care about, be it for telling their stories or memorializing their histories? Which pasts don’t we care about enough to transform into heritage sites or statues?
Contributions may also include questions about the undersides of care, including dependency and paternalism; care in the wake of institutional or infrastructural failures; the labor of care under capitalism; care in community organization and resistance; the race and gender politics of care; care as a form of healing and survival; and the assumptions that undergird the very notion of care. Scholars, activists, and artists may address any historical period, and approaches may draw from a wide range of fields, including race and ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, feminist perspectives, Marxist studies, and poststructural theory. Particularly relevant would be papers that seek to understand the relationship between individual and community in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the strategies that confront this and other crises across the continent. We are also interested in papers that explore care praxis as a form of resistance and survival.
IN ADDITION TO THE themes ABOVE, OTHER POTENTIAL THEMES MIGHT include:
● Transnational networks of care
● Debility and disability
● Immobility
● Dis-ease, disease, and environment
● Health and medicine
● Intergenerational care
● End of life rituals
● Tequios
● Feminist praxis
● Mutual aid and solidarity
● Governance and care
● Care with, in, and for archives
● Care epistemologies
● The uneven distribution of care across populations/spaces/etc.
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2022. For more information, please consult our website (www.tepoztlaninstitute.org) or write to us at tepoinstitute@gmail.com.
● Debility and disability
● Immobility
● Dis-ease, disease, and environment
● Health and medicine
● Intergenerational care
● End of life rituals
● Tequios
● Feminist praxis
● Mutual aid and solidarity
● Governance and care
● Care with, in, and for archives
● Care epistemologies
● The uneven distribution of care across populations/spaces/etc.
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2022. For more information, please consult our website (www.tepoztlaninstitute.org) or write to us at tepoinstitute@gmail.com.