Exploring care in rituals of social reproduction in Southern Tanzania
A warm CORTH welcome to Kaja Skoftedalen, who joins us from the University of Bergen, where she is a PhD candidate at the Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care. Kaja is CORTH's newest visiting researcher and she will be presenting her research during this Semester's first CORTH Conversation.
Kaja's talk will be on the topic of Exploring care in rituals of social reproduction in Southern Tanzania.
Abstract:
Much research focuses mainly on care as processes and actions occurring within health institutions and the family home. However, caring is a social activity that occurs in a wide range of spaces outside of what is usually in focus. Kaja's PhD project aims to explore spaces of social care in a broader sense by looking at how ritual activities are interconnected with the social reproduction of relations, hierarchies, norms and values. Caring, in these spaces, forms and strengthens but also challenges social bonds. Ritual interactions sometimes also involve non-human beings, who also play central roles in how people experience and initiate care and wellbeing.
The talk will take place on 8 April, 12 noon to 2pm BST in room C333 (Arts C) and over Zoom. If you would like to attend online, please email corth@sussex.ac.uk for the Zoom details.