Love is a Line that Doesn't End: A Rumination on Ghosts and Unreason in Search of Care Without Violence
dc.contributor.advisor | da Silveira Gorman, Rachel | |
dc.contributor.author | Ki, Patricia Hoi Ling | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-08T14:39:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-12-08T14:39:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-12-08 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-12-08T14:39:35Z | |
dc.degree.discipline | Critical Disability Studies | |
dc.degree.level | Doctoral | |
dc.degree.name | PhD - Doctor of Philosophy | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10315/41718 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
dc.subject | Ethics | |
dc.subject | Social structure | |
dc.subject | Health care management | |
dc.subject.keywords | Ethics of care | |
dc.subject.keywords | Feminist ethics of care | |
dc.subject.keywords | Feminist theories | |
dc.subject.keywords | Autotheory | |
dc.subject.keywords | Critical race theory | |
dc.subject.keywords | Research-creation | |
dc.subject.keywords | Arts-based research | |
dc.subject.keywords | Arts-based inquiry | |
dc.subject.keywords | Poetry | |
dc.subject.keywords | Transformative justice | |
dc.subject.keywords | Disability studies | |
dc.subject.keywords | Critical disability studies | |
dc.subject.keywords | Disability justice | |
dc.subject.keywords | Gender studies | |
dc.subject.keywords | Trauma | |
dc.subject.keywords | Trauma-informed care | |
dc.subject.keywords | Violence | |
dc.subject.keywords | State violence | |
dc.subject.keywords | Colonial violence | |
dc.subject.keywords | Anti-colonialism | |
dc.subject.keywords | Anti-oppression | |
dc.subject.keywords | Anti-racism | |
dc.subject.keywords | Systemic oppression | |
dc.subject.keywords | Racism | |
dc.subject.keywords | Ableism | |
dc.subject.keywords | Cisheteropatriarchy | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social work | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social services | |
dc.subject.keywords | Grief | |
dc.subject.keywords | Love | |
dc.subject.keywords | Interdependence | |
dc.subject.keywords | Entanglement | |
dc.title | Love is a Line that Doesn't End: A Rumination on Ghosts and Unreason in Search of Care Without Violence | |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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