Love is a Line that Doesn't End: A Rumination on Ghosts and Unreason in Search of Care Without Violence

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dc.contributor.advisorda Silveira Gorman, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorKi, Patricia Hoi Ling
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-08T14:39:35Z
dc.date.available2023-12-08T14:39:35Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-08
dc.date.updated2023-12-08T14:39:35Z
dc.degree.disciplineCritical Disability Studies
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis body of work contemplates and explores the question, how can care be practiced without replicating violence? Methodologically, it can be understood as an arts-based, multi-site project that focuses on service systems that claim to care, including mental health, social service, and education settings. This work unfolds through five storytelling and arts-making projects, each created with a collaborator who, along with me, brings to this process the experiences of providing services and accessing services, of perpetrating violence and being violated as racialized, femininized, and/or queer people in the care work systems that produce the very privileges we benefit from. At its heart, this body of work is a practice of unforgetting. It is compelled by the lives and deaths of the people we have worked with and the violence we have witnessed. Drawing on the collaborative arts-making projects as well as scholarships in disability and transformative justice, critical feminist and race theories, and feminist ethics of care, this work unpacks the discourse of trauma as a dominant story about violence through the concept of ghosts: the colonial ghosts that live in the bones of people who are labelled with trauma as well as people who provide care for trauma; the ghosts rendered as such through the casting out of belonging from the category of human but persist in appearing; the ghosts about whom tales of horror are constructed as warnings to protect the boundaries of the norm. Ghost stories led this work to a contemplation of grievability as a way of love and the basis of transformative, interdependent relationships, with those who are living and the ghosts we do not forget and remain accountable for – those already dead from colonial, ableist, racist, gender-based violence, from whom we learn to build a less violent future for those not yet born.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41718
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectEthics
dc.subjectSocial structure
dc.subjectHealth care management
dc.subject.keywordsEthics of care
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist ethics of care
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist theories
dc.subject.keywordsAutotheory
dc.subject.keywordsCritical race theory
dc.subject.keywordsResearch-creation
dc.subject.keywordsArts-based research
dc.subject.keywordsArts-based inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsPoetry
dc.subject.keywordsTransformative justice
dc.subject.keywordsDisability studies
dc.subject.keywordsCritical disability studies
dc.subject.keywordsDisability justice
dc.subject.keywordsGender studies
dc.subject.keywordsTrauma
dc.subject.keywordsTrauma-informed care
dc.subject.keywordsViolence
dc.subject.keywordsState violence
dc.subject.keywordsColonial violence
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-oppression
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-racism
dc.subject.keywordsSystemic oppression
dc.subject.keywordsRacism
dc.subject.keywordsAbleism
dc.subject.keywordsCisheteropatriarchy
dc.subject.keywordsSocial work
dc.subject.keywordsSocial services
dc.subject.keywordsGrief
dc.subject.keywordsLove
dc.subject.keywordsInterdependence
dc.subject.keywordsEntanglement
dc.titleLove is a Line that Doesn't End: A Rumination on Ghosts and Unreason in Search of Care Without Violence
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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