What does it mean to care with the grotesque?
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What does it mean to care with the grotesque? In London, Ontario a group of educators and children encounter a dead squirrel while out for a walk. Educators grapple with how to invite children to care about the dead squirrel. What does a non-idealized vision of care look like (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2012)? Children theorize about the squirrel’s death, and we see this as care, but care as Haraway (2008) defines it, not as a protection or shelter, but as curiosity.
References
Haraway, D. J. (2008). When species meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2012). ‘Nothing comes without its world'”: Thinking with care. The Sociological Review, 60(2), 197-216.
