ABSTRACT

This research focuses on the bodies, feelings, spaces and places of care and disability. It is informed by feminist geography, and geographies of embodiment and emotion. Using autobiography as a method of inquiry I share my experience of caring for my young disabled son in relation to the disability needs assessment in Aotearoa New Zealand. I argue that embodiment and emotions are often not considered by geographers researching care, and in particular, geographers have been slow to account for their own personal care geographies. I articulate my experience of care and disability and show that the embodied emotions of care emerge in relation to people, things, place and space. This article concludes that any attempt to understand care needs to consider the everyday realities of carers and the paradoxical embodied and emotional spaces they occupy. Personal accounts and a focus on individually felt emotions should always be considered alongside relationality, collective experience, power and politics.

摘要

这项研究的重点是照料和残疾的身体，感觉，空间和位置。它是由女权主义地理以及体现和情感的地理环境提供的。我使用自传作为一种调查方法，与新西兰奥特罗阿（Aotearoa）的残障需求评估相关，我分享了照顾年轻的残疾儿子的经验。我认为地理研究人员通常不会考虑人格和情感，尤其是地理学家很难解释自己的个人护理地理环境。我表达了我对照料和残疾的经历，并表明照料的情感与人，事物，地方和空间有关。本文的结论是，任何了解照护的尝试都必须考虑护理者的日常现实以及他们所占据的自相矛盾的体现和情感空间。