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

这项研究的重点是身体、感觉、空间和照顾和残疾的地方。它受到女权主义地理学以及体现和情感的地理学的影响。使用自传作为一种探究方法，我分享了我在新西兰奥特阿罗亚照顾残疾儿子的经验，与残疾需求评估有关。我认为研究护理的地理学家通常不会考虑体现和情感，特别是地理学家在解释他们自己的个人护理地理方面的速度很慢。我阐述了我对护理和残疾的体验，并表明护理的具体情感与人、事物、地点和空间有关。本文的结论是，任何理解护理的尝试都需要考虑护理人员的日常现实以及他们所占据的矛盾的体现和情感空间。