Abstract

Care is a political process, a set of social relations, and a marketized product. The spatialization of care is complicated when there are diverse caring relations within sites of marketized care. I focus on how care is produced and conceived in non-profit housing for women, in Vancouver, Canada, and how people experience and feel about their homes. I demonstrate the significance of mutual care, caring relations that subvert the giver-receiver hierarchy, and socio-spatial practices that enact care in ways that seek to rewrite structural and historical oppressions that shape women’s experiences of housing. I argue that care in this non-profit housing is entwined within a set of relationships, which range communal practices of care to friction and fragility. This underscores that relationships of care remain susceptible to politics, conflict, and institutional shifts. Finally, I theorize that the provision of mutual care from tenants to their neighbours is a significant element within a wider complex of care in non-profit housing sites.

摘要

关怀是一个政治过程，是一套社会关系，是一种市场化的产物。当市场化护理场所内存在不同的护理关系时，护理的空间化是复杂的。我专注于在加拿大温哥华的非营利女性住房中如何生产和构思护理，以及人们如何体验和感受他们的家。我展示了相互关怀的重要性，颠覆了给予者-接受者等级的关怀关系，以及以寻求改写塑造女性住房体验的结构性和历史性压迫的方式实施关怀的社会空间实践。我认为，在这种非营利性住房中的护理与一系列关系交织在一起，从社区护理实践到摩擦和脆弱性。这强调了护理关系仍然容易受到政治、冲突、和体制转变。最后，我推论，从租户到邻居的相互照顾是非营利性住房场所更广泛的照顾综合体中的一个重要因素。