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The Productivity of Care: Contextualizing Care in Situated Interaction and Shedding Light on its Latent Purposes
Pratesi, Alessandro
Pratesi, Alessandro
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2011-05-27
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Care work may be connected with emotional and psychological exhaustion but also gratification, reward, and self-empowerment. Caregivers experience both positive and negative emotional states in caring situations, and further studies on the rewarding and energizing aspects of care may help us to broaden our understanding of how we can reduce the degree of burden while increasing the sense of satisfaction.
This article shows how the focus on emotion is a necessary step to show the ambivalences and the grey areas connected with the concept of care as well as to challenge the not fully explored assumption that care is often associated with burden and stress and viewed as a result of circumstances. It reports the findings of a micro-situated study of daily care activities among 80 caregivers. Care is seen as a strategic site to grasp deeper insights into the interactional mechanisms through which the emotional dynamics revolving around care produce unanticipated outcomes in terms of symbolic and practical productivity.
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Pratesi, A. (2011). The Productivity of care: contextualizing care in situated interaction and shedding light on its latent purposes. Ethics and Social Welfare, 5(2), 123-137. doi: 10.1080/17496535.2011.571063
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Taylor & Francis
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Ethics and Social Welfare
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10.1080/17496535.2011.571063
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Ethics and Social Welfare on 27th May 2011, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17496535.2011.571063
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1749-6543