Lecture
6th June, 12.30-6.30
Keynes Library, Birkbeck
Experiences and practices of care have changed dramatically in the past three decades. Since the passing of the NHS and Community Care Act (1990), healthcare, social care and short-term psychiatric care have been increasingly decentralised and delivered ‘in the community’. This shift has been both practical and discursive: altering the pathways by which care is accessed and the sites in which it is received; and changing perceptions surrounding the role of those receiving care in wider society. In the case of mental healthcare for example, it has led us to move from the ‘mental patient’ to the ‘service user’ as labels that define the relationship between persons receiving care and those providing it.
Thirty years on, community care continues to be a fraught subject. On the one hand, it has been seen as having a democratizing influence, opening up the possibility for greater patient choice, and of integrating patients’ and service-users’ voices into care provision. On the other, it continues to be viewed as a chaotic cost-cutting exercise which leaves vulnerable people to fall through the cracks.
‘Conversations on Care and/in the Community’ symposium invites researchers to engage in a series of conversations surrounding these new social and spatial conditions of care in the twenty-first century, and how artworks (especially performance) have engaged in these conditions.
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Lisa Baraitser and Prof. Barbara Taylor
Conversations on Care and/in the Community is supported by the Birkbeck/Wellcome ISSF and affiliated to the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre.
The event is free. Details and booking at: http://bit.ly/careandincommunity
The Keynes Library is wheelchair accessible. If you have any other access requirements, please feel free to contact me on lsidi01@mail.bbk.ac.uk
Keynes Library, Birkbeck
Experiences and practices of care have changed dramatically in the past three decades. Since the passing of the NHS and Community Care Act (1990), healthcare, social care and short-term psychiatric care have been increasingly decentralised and delivered ‘in the community’. This shift has been both practical and discursive: altering the pathways by which care is accessed and the sites in which it is received; and changing perceptions surrounding the role of those receiving care in wider society. In the case of mental healthcare for example, it has led us to move from the ‘mental patient’ to the ‘service user’ as labels that define the relationship between persons receiving care and those providing it.
Thirty years on, community care continues to be a fraught subject. On the one hand, it has been seen as having a democratizing influence, opening up the possibility for greater patient choice, and of integrating patients’ and service-users’ voices into care provision. On the other, it continues to be viewed as a chaotic cost-cutting exercise which leaves vulnerable people to fall through the cracks.
‘Conversations on Care and/in the Community’ symposium invites researchers to engage in a series of conversations surrounding these new social and spatial conditions of care in the twenty-first century, and how artworks (especially performance) have engaged in these conditions.
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Lisa Baraitser and Prof. Barbara Taylor
Conversations on Care and/in the Community is supported by the Birkbeck/Wellcome ISSF and affiliated to the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre.
The event is free. Details and booking at: http://bit.ly/careandincommunity
The Keynes Library is wheelchair accessible. If you have any other access requirements, please feel free to contact me on lsidi01@mail.bbk.ac.uk
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