The IN3 research group Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) is pleased to invite you to the webinar "Percepciones y prácticas de cuidado en dos contextos organizativos de la Provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina" ("Care: perceptions and practices in two organizational contexts in the Province of Santa Fe. Argentina"), to be given by Diego Carmona Gallego, holder of Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the National University of Rosario, Argentina (UNR) and doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of Entre Ríos, Argentina (UNER).
This webinar will provide a review of some of the research results underlying his doctoral thesis, "A study of the perceptions of care and their relationship with practices in organizational contexts", which he has been working on since 2018 as part of the doctoral programme in Social Sciences at the National University of Entre Ríos, Argentina (UNER), with funding from Argentina's National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). The research was based around a qualitative study of the perceptions and practices of care in two organizations of the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina, associated with caring for people in a broad sense: a public neighbourhood centre and a day centre for adults with intellectual and functional diversity. The goal of this study is to recognize and identify care practices in organizational contexts, to enable the collective deployment of ethical and policy-related considerations to permit the preservation of life, in all its diverse forms of expressions, and make life the central focus.
Venue
Online
When
08/11/2021 17.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3's Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) research group
Program
Abstract
The workshop's itinerary will consist of an introduction and two main sections. The introduction will outline the approach to the issue and topic being studied, as well as the repertory of personal, professional and institutional experiences that provide the foundational background. The objectives and underlying assumptions will also be specified. In the first section, we shall examine the theoretical and conceptual fundamentals of the study of care in its ethical and associative dimensions. Firstly, we shall look at the contemporary socio-historical structure, characterized by an increase in self-sufficient individualism that is harmful to social ties, which coexists with a search for a sense of community. Secondly, we shall explain the epistemological assumptions of the research proposal, based on a systemic, complex perspective that makes up a reflection on the relational ontology. Thirdly, we shall set out the qualities of the human condition (vulnerability and interdependency) that act as coordinates for the debate around care, specifying the relational ontology that we regard as distinctive of systemic and complex thought. Lastly, we outline decisive contributions for an ethos of multidimensional care in the social fabric, based on transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary developments of the topic. The second section will refer to the research methodology and the fieldwork performed. We shall be presenting specific conclusions regarding the cases studied, as well as topics with a broader scope that have emerged from the fieldwork. Some of the results of our study reveal great tension between a configuration of care as a professionalized tool, regarding it mostly as a welfare-related task aimed at certain individuals defined as "dependent", and an ethical-associative configuration regarding care not only as an action but also as receptivity within the framework of a living, breathing community. We shall be concluding the webinar by presenting a situated theoretical/conceptual cartography outlining the possible ethical/political prospects for a social culture of care.
Diego Carmona Gallego
Holder of Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the National University of Rosario, Argentina (UNR) and doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of Entre Ríos, Argentina (UNER). Since 2018, he has been working as a researcher and doctoral scholar at Argentina's National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). He is a member of the Rosario Education Sciences Research Institute (IRICE-CONICET/UNR), the Institute of Care Researchers of the Centro Region of the Republic of Argentina (FTS-UNER; FCS-UADER; UNC; IRICE-CONICET/UNR) and of the Ibero-American Network of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (RIPOT). His professional career includes experience in the field of intellectual diversity, working as a counsellor in a daycare centre (2015-2018) and as co-coordinator of the "Revista ZL" writing, mental health and social coexistence project (2016-2018). He also acted as a therapeutic companion as part of the Programme for the Protection and Companionship of victims, witnesses and complainants in trials for crimes against humanity, of the Provincial Government of Santa Fe (2015-2017). He has penned chapters for books and articles for peer-reviewed academic journals, both Argentinian and international, on the following subjects: the ethics of care, vulnerability, interdependency, autonomy, relational autonomy, disability/functional diversity and the new masculinities.
To take part in this webinar, please contact us at lfarremo@uoc.edu.