Journal articles on the topic 'Maria Puig de la Bellacasa'

Abstract Collecting and reporting national data has become a routine practice for assisted reproductive technology (ART) governance. This article compares the building of national registries, the making of health statistics, and the utilization of these data in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. Instead of viewing data registries as tools for health surveillance or monitoring, we approach them in terms of their effectiveness in generating care. Conceptualizing ART data reporting as care infrastructure, built on Maria Puig de la Bellacasa’s “matters of care,” allows us to compare the extent to which data are collected for strengthening a community’s ethical obligation, presented as indicators that could reflect quality of care and inform evidence-based policy making that promotes clinical practices for healthy outcomes. We find that sociotechnical imaginaries for ART were shaped by the fact that, in its early stages, in vitro fertilization was considered controversial in Japan, a source of nationalist glory in Taiwan, and a marginal procedure in South Korea. This in turn led to different trajectories of designing national registries in these countries, resulting in different care outcomes. We also point to the importance of mediators, including reflexive medical practitioners, care-centered state bureaucrats, and activists, in translating registry data into better ART health care.

Mapping entanglements is work—work of care, maintenance, and mourning. This project utilises a new materialist methodology inherited from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who follow lines of becoming to track compositions which compose worlds. To map (non-linear, temporal, and situated) lines of loss across multispecies landscapes is material work of more-than-human mourning. The New York City-based performance artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles—alongside scholars such as María Puig de la Bellacasa and Donna J. Haraway—reorient configurations of work and care, which enable these lines to be followed into more-than-human worlds. Mapping lines of mourning into multispecies worlds is material work of the aesthetic-ethical response within shared and troubled landscapes. The key storytellers within the narrative of mourning and joy woven into this paper are the Salish Sea, the Lummi Nation, the Chinook Salmon, and the Southern Resident killer whale; the voices and cries to which this project, in work and care, is dedicated.

La idea que anima este ensayo es poder pensar al Lago de Texcoco —un gran humedal de poca profundidad ubicado al nororiente de la Ciudad de México— como un agente no humano, que se desborda más allá de las categorías epistemológicas y culturales que lo han signado como un “lago”. Para ello me valdré de mi propia experiencia caminando en su suelo y también de las reflexiones y provocaciones lanzadas por diversas autoras y autores, como Bruno Latour, Elizabeth Povinelli y María Puig de la Bellacasa, entre otres, que ayudarán a comprender cómo este agente resistió al silenciamiento que implicaba la construcción de un aeropuerto en su lecho, el cual atentaba contra las comunidades interespecies que ahí existen todavía y que resistieron por su naturaleza cambiante y esquiva, pero también gracias a los pueblos de la región de Atenco, que se organizaron para defenderlo de la imposición gubernamental, que había insistido (y fracasado) durante veinte años en la construcción de un aeropuerto en el Lago de Texcoco.

Una vez que ya no es suficiente considerar los objetos de conocimiento científico como parte y resultado de un proceso sociodiscursivo, en el que funcionarían como “móviles inmutables” (Latour) u “objetos fronterizos” (Star), se necesita repensar cómo concebirlos y cómo poner de relieve su propia agencia y relacionalidad. Para ello empezamos por considerarlos como “materias de cuidado” (Puig de la Bellacasa), y se muestran las cadenas de cuidados en las que esos objetos participan consolidándose y contribuyendo a la constitución de otros ingredientes de la tecnociencia. Esta concepción se clarifica y desarrolla al identificarlos también como fenómenos (en el sentido de Bohr y Barad), lo que facilita la visión de cómo objetos y “sujetos” de la tecnociencia se constituyen mutua y diferencialmente como inseparables. Por último, se argumenta que la relacionalidad es la clave de la constitución, la activación y la forma de ser de los objetos de la tecnociencia, así como del modo en que intervienen productivamente en su propia constitución y en la de los “sujetos”. Coconstituidos con estos, son un “devenir-con-abierto-y-activo”.

AbstractTransdisciplinary Sustainability Science has emerged as a viable answer to current sustainability crises with the aim to strengthen collaborative knowledge production. To expand its transformative potential, we argue that Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science needs to thoroughly engage with questions of unequal power relations and hierarchical scientific constructs. Drawing on the work of the feminist philosopher María Puig de la Bellacasa, we examine a feminist ethos of care which might provide useful guidance for sustainability researchers who are interested in generating critical-emancipatory knowledge. A feminist ethos of care is constituted by three interrelated modes of knowledge production: (1) thinking-with, (2) dissenting-within and (3) thinking-for. These modes of thinking and knowing enrich knowledge co-production in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science by (i) embracing relational ontologies, (ii) relating to the ‘other than human’, (iii) cultivating caring academic cultures, (iv) taking care of non-academic research partners, (v) engaging with conflict and difference, (vi) interrogating positionalities and power relations through reflexivity, (vii) building upon marginalised knowledges via feminist standpoints and (viii) countering epistemic violence within and beyond academia. With our paper, we aim to make a specific feminist contribution to the field of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science and emphasise its potentials to advance this field.

This article takes seriously the claim made by 19th century antivivisectionist Anna Kingsford that experiments on animals constitute a type of malevolent sorcery, more specifically a demonic blood sacrifice. In so doing, the paper follows the work of Pignarre and Stengers in their explication of sorcery and how to “get a hold” of its operations despite its stupefying powers. To that end, I will investigate the pragmatic potential of understanding experiments on animals in this way, and more broadly, following the work of posthuman and material feminists, as a type of onto-theological phenomenon of spacetimemattering (in Karen Barad’s terms). This understanding will pay particular attention to the intra-active exclusions that haunt the laboratory space and, following a neo-Spinozist feminist approach, I will explicate the ways in which the human-animal power relations within the laboratory inhibit the creation of joyful multispecies “common notions.” In order to respond to the ghostly presences which haunt the laboratory space, and to affirm joyful, multispecies relations for “as well as possible worlds” (Puig de la Bellacasa), I will finally argue for an affirmative multispecies politics of what Rosi Bradiotti calls “zoe-centered egalitarianism” through a posthuman politics of “grace,” or “the leaving be of nonhumans” (MacCormack) which I frame as an enactment of an enchanted animal ethic.

This article traces different devices and practices (i.e., ultrasound scan, fine needle aspiration and breast examination) involved in the clinical diagnostic practices for breast cancer and suggests that they might be productively considered as “visualization apparatuses.” Drawing on auto-ethnographic data and medical literature, it explores how these apparatuses make visible and help materialize a particular bodily configuration (e.g., a simple cyst as a benign breast disorder). In examining side by side the practices and devices commonly characterized as medical imaging such as ultrasonography and the more mundane apparatuses such as syringes or trained eyes and fingers, the article draws attention to the non-given nature of image and imaging, and to the equally non-given nature of the distinctions between vision, touch and hearing as modes of sensing and knowing. In doing so, it seeks to problematize the traditional partitioning of experience into separate and separable perceptual and epistemological modalities, while at the same time reclaiming vision, touch and hearing as metaphors for responsible and accountable knowledge-making. Bringing together feminist (Haraway, 1988; Puig de la Bellacasa, 2009; Barad, 2007; 2012) and post-phenomenological (Ihde, 2007; Ingold, 2000) work on knowledge-making and perception with the concept of synesthesia (Harris, 2016; Hayward, 2010; Marks, 2002), it argues for a certain knowledge politics beyond “sense atomism,” which helps us to rethink not only the apparent distinction in the different sensorial universes but also, more broadly, the questions of knowledge, politics, responsibility and accountability.

A finales del siglo XIX, encontramos cultivadores de seda a los campos de moreras, como muestra Frederic Mistral en su poema épico rural Mirèio (1859). Además de compartir la práctica de una actividad agrícola e industrial asociada a la producción de la seda, entre los territorios de Provenza y Valencia se establece una relación literaria. En este trabajo relacionamos la representación literaria de las mujeres dedicadas a la sericicultura que presenta Mirèio con la poesía de la Renaixença valenciana, desde Teodor Llorente pasando por Constantí Llombart, Josep Maria Puig i Torralva y Francesc Badenes.

In December of 2007 we create the Portuguese Interpersonal Psychoterapy Society in order to continue the development of this psychotherapy in our country. Before in 2003 it took place two courses of 20 hours each in two hospitals in Lisbon (Hospital S. Francisco Xavier and Hospital Sta Maria) with the partnership of Spanish Interpersonal Psychoterapy Association and colleagues from Madrid (Francisco Aguado and Maria Dièguez) and Barcelona (Sole Puig and Lecina Fernandez). After those courses a group of psychologists and psychiatrists start to use this psychotherapy in clinical practice in Portugal with the supervision of the colleagues from Spain. This psychoterapy was applied in public and private clinic, for depression, anxiety, grief and cronic physical diseases like diabetes.We will describe the developments of this psychoterapy in Portugal, the future plans for it spread and the ongoing research studies.Note: This presentation was included in the proposal we did before for the simposium "Developments in Psychoterapy: Interpersonal Psychoetrapy" propose by Dr. Carlos Góis.

O presente artigo tem por substrato a pesquisa de mestrado intitulada O Museu Vivo do Padre Cícero e seu Projeto Educativo, que está sendo desenvolvida junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes – PPGARTES, do Instituto Federal do Ceará. Em sentido amplo, realizamos uma reflexão sobre a configuração expositiva dos museus, na condição de espaço educativo, a partir da investigação a cerca do Projeto Educativo do Museu Vivo do Padre Cícero, instituição situada na cidade de Juazeiro do Norte – CE. A questão norteadora da pesquisa consiste em problematizar o espaço do Museu Vivo do Padre Cícero, compreendido enquanto instituição de educação não formal, contemplando e discutindo as principais instâncias de seu projeto educativo. Tomando como referencial teórico estudos das pesquisadoras Ana Mae Barbosa, Rejane Coutinho, Maria Isabel Roque e Carla Padró Puig, estabelecemos relações entre os conceitos de “educação em museus” e o projeto do museu em questão, identificando o lugar que as ações educativas ocupam em seu projeto institucional. Considerando as dinâmicas da contemporaneidade, refletimos sobre a pertinência da concepção do projeto expositivo do Museu Vivo do Padre Cícero, a qual foi idealizada há quase duas décadas, mantendo-se, até hoje, fiel ao seu projeto original, a despeito das novas tendências curatoriais.

Este artigo relata uma investigação sobre as representações sociais (Serge Moscovici), construídas a partir da veiculação, nas redes sociais, de um vídeo que retrata uma criança derrubando objetos em uma sala, ocorrido em outubro de 2015, em Macaé, Rio de Janeiro. Esse vídeo ganhou enorme repercussão, evidenciada pelo seu destaque também em canais de televisão. Neste sentido, buscou-se compreender as teorias construídas por diferentes pessoas para o que estavam vendo naquelas imagens. Assim, a análise se centrou nos comentários de leitores sobre o vídeo, de modo que foram alocadas em quatro categorias preestabelecidas, com base nas concepções de responsabilidade elencadas por Yves Lenoir: senso comum, internalista, externalista (forte) do eu profundo e externalista fraca. Como resultados, evidenciou-se uma visão de responsabilidade majoritariamente centrada na mãe e na incapacidade da criança de distinção sobre o que é aceitável socialmente. Paradoxalmente, embora se considere a incapacidade da criança para esta distinção, os comentários defendem sanções à mesma. Outra representação, embora menos presente, é a denominada externalista fraca, na qual o aluno deve igualmente receber uma sanção, mas que também se orienta pela autocorreção e a autotransformação, em uma perspectiva social inter-relacional. Para superar esse impasse ético é preciso que o ser humano – professores, alunos, pais e leitores –, desenvolva em suas experiências a aprendizagem ética (Josep Maria Puig).

Abstract CDK4/6 inhibitors combined with endocrine therapy (ET) have shown clinical benefit in HR+, HER2- breast cancer. However, development of resistance highlights the need for treatment strategies to improve outcomes. To study resistance mechanisms, breast cancer cell lines were treated with CDK4/6i (abemaciclib or palbociclib) in combination with 4-OH-tamoxifen (tamoxifen) for 120-144h and sorted for resistant cells defined as geminin positive (GEM+), a marker of S/G2/M cell cycle accumulation. To confirm the resistant phenotype, cell lines were treated with tamoxifen plus the CDK4/6 inhibitor used to drive resistance. To understand if sequential CDK4/6i treatment is effective in controlling cell proliferation, resistant cells generated through treatment with palbociclib + tamoxifen or abemaciclib + tamoxifen were treated with abemaciclib + ET (fulvestrant or tamoxifen) or palbociclib + ET, respectively. Geminin/Ki67, annexin V and colony formation assays were performed to evaluate cell proliferation and viability. Molecular characterization by western blot and RNAseq analysis were utilized to provide insights into mechanisms of resistance and the effects of sequential treatment with CDK4/6i + ET. Cell lines resistant to palbociclib + tamoxifen subsequently treated with abemaciclib + ET showed decreased %GEM+ and colony formation ability, decreased Ki67 levels, and increased apoptosis. These effects were not observed in cell lines resistant to abemaciclib + tamoxifen following subsequent treatment with palbociclib + ET. Western blot analysis showed that palbociclib and abemaciclib-resistant cells had increased CDK6 and pERK levels, compared to control. Importantly, treatment of palbociclib-resistant cells with abemaciclib + ET decreased FOXM1, a key regulator of senescence and apoptosis. Cyclin A, a marker of mitosis, was also decreased, consistent with decreased %GEM+ subpopulation in palbociclib + ET resistant cells. These effects were not observed in abemaciclib-resistant cells treated with palbociclib + ET.In summary, our in vitro data provides mechanistic insights into resistance to combination CDK4/6i + tamoxifen and suggests the potential benefit of sequential treatment with abemaciclib + ET to overcome resistance in breast cancer. Citation Format: Elisabet Zapatero-Solana, Maria P. Ganado, Maria J. Ortiz-Ruiz, Cecilia Mur, Lacey Litchfield, Farhana Merzoug, Oscar Puig, Maria Jsoe Lallena. Sequential treatment with abemaciclib plus endocrine therapy inhibits cell proliferation and triggers apoptosis in cell lines resistant to CDK4/6i [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 2307.

Background:The protagonism of regulatory B cells seems to vary along the course of the disease in murine models of inflammatory conditions. Decreased numbers of circulating regulatory CD19+CD24hiCD38hi transitional B cells (cTrB) have been described in patients with longstanding RA.Objectives:To examine the frequency and evolution of cTrB cells in the peripheral blood of early RA (ERA) patients.Methods:Freshly isolated PBMCs from 48 steroid and DMARD-naïve ERA patients with a disease duration below 24 weeks and 48 healthy controls (HC) were examined by flow cytometry. Cocultures of isolated memory B cells were established with autologous T cells, in the absence or presence of TrB cells.Results:As compared with HC, ERA patients demonstrated an increased frequency of cTrB cells. cTrBs of ERA and HC displayed an anti-inflammatory cytokine profile and were able to downregulate T cell IFNγ and IL-21 production, together with ACPA secretion in autologous B/T cell cocultures. Basal frequencies of cTrBs above the median value observed in HC were associated with a good EULAR response to MTX at 12 months (RR=2.91; 95% CI, 1.37-6.47). A significant reduction of cTrBs was observed 12 months after initiating MTX, when the cTrB cell frequency was no longer elevated but decreased, and this was independent of the degree of clinical response or the intake of prednisone.Conclusion:An increased frequency of regulatory cTrB cells is apparent in untreated ERA, and the baseline cTrB cell frequency is associated with the clinical response to MTX at 12 months.References:[1]Matsushita T, et al. J Clin Invest. 2008;118:342. Flores-Borja F, et al. Sci Transl Med. 2013;5:173ra23.Disclosure of Interests:Paula Fortea-Gordo Grant/research support from: BMS, Alejandro Villalba: None declared, Laura Nuño: None declared, Maria-Jose Santos-Bornez Grant/research support from: BMS, Diana Peiteado: None declared, Irene Monjo: None declared, Amaya Puig-Kröger: None declared, Paloma Sanchez-Mateos: None declared, Emilio Martín-Mola Grant/research support from: BMS, Roche, Alejandro Balsa Grant/research support from: BMS, Roche, Consultant of: AbbVie, Gilead, Lilly, Pfizer, UCB, Sanofi, Sandoz, Speakers bureau: AbbVie, Lilly, Sanofi, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB, Roche, Nordic, Sandoz, Maria-Eugenia Miranda-Carus Grant/research support from: BMS, Roche

Este artigo apresenta reflexões sobre os conflitos sociomorais e as violências presentes no ambiente escolar. As informações para este texto foram coletadas durante o desenvolvimento do projeto de pesquisa intitulado “Personalidades morais em construção: os conflitos sociomorais e os sentimentos”. A pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar como as professoras dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental trabalhavam com as situações de conflitos sociomorais e com os sentimentos daqueles que neles estavam envolvidos, para, assim, compreender as repercussões na construção da personalidade moral autônoma dos alunos (PUIG, 1998). Foi previsto na metodologia do projeto, um estudo de caso (LÜDKE; ANDRÉ, 1986), a realização de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com docentes e a observação das turmas de alunos dessas professoras. Foram entrevistadas 14 professoras dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental de escolas públicas de quatro cidades do estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Seis atuavam na cidade de Santa Maria, uma em Faxinal do Soturno, quatro em Nova Palma e três em Roque Gonzales. A pesquisa empírica revelou um universo de dados que apontaram para a existência de conflitos e violências tanto na relação aluno-aluno quanto na relação professora-aluno. Os conflitos e violências observados (em sua maioria) foram decorrentes de um sentimento de abstenção por parte das professoras entrevistadas. Somado ao despreparo na formação, ao desconhecimento de como mediar conflitos e a não compreensão de algumas situações de conflitos como violências, as práticas autoritárias das professoras também se destacaram como um elemento que desfavoreceu a construção da personalidade moral autônoma e a relação EU-TU (BUBER, 1977). Palavras-chave: Conflitos sociomorais; Violências na escola; Personalidade moral.

Este artigo apresenta reflexões sobre a temática violência escolar seus conflitos e sentimentos. As informações para este texto foram coletadas durante o desenvolvimento da segunda etapa do projeto de pesquisa intitulado “Os conflitos e os sentimentos presentes na relação pedagógica e seus entrelaçamentos na construção da personalidade moral”. Nessa etapa, a pesquisa teve como objetivos identificar quais os sentimentos que afloraram nas situações de conflitos presentes na relação pedagógica e quais as significações que foram construídas pelas crianças envolvidas em tais situações, buscando compreender como esses elementos atuam na construção da personalidade moral autônoma (PUIG, 1998). Para tanto, o foco central dessa investigação direcionou-se para um estudo de caso de uma turma dos Anos Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola da rede pública municipal da cidade de Santa Maria – RS, composta por 26 alunos com faixa etária entre 9 e 14 anos e a professora regente. Num período de três meses realizamos observações e atividades nas quais as crianças teriam de expressar seus sentimentos em relação às situações de conflitos. As observações realizadas foram caracterizadas ISSN 1518-3483 Rev. Diálogo Educ., Curitiba, v. 9, n. 28, p. 571-586, set./dez. 2009 Licenciado sob uma Licença Creative Commons 572 DANI, L. S. C. como observações do tipo mais formal (WITTROCK, 1989) através de um sistema aberto (WITTROCK, 1989) e, registradas em um diário de campo. As atividades escolhidas foram: dinâmica de grupo e entrevista grupal, tendo como elemento motivador gravuras referentes ao ambiente escolar. Os resultados apontaram para a ideia de que a convivência baseada no conceito de agrupamento (CORTELLA; DE LA TAILLE, 2005) favorece a construção de significações que legitimam a violência nas relações interpessoais escolares.

Background:Methotrexate (MTX) remains the first line of treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)1,2. Inhibition of AICAR transformylase by MTX results in augmented release of adenine nucleotides to the extracellular space1; these are rapidly hydrolysed by the combined action of ectonucleotidases CD39 and CD79 rendering the antiinflammatory agent adenosine1. CD39, the rate-limiting enzyme in this cascade, is highly expressed by a subset of human FoxP3+CD4+ regulatory T cells (Treg39+)2-4 and MTX may act synergistically with Tregs in the control of inflammation.Objectives:To study the expression of CD39 on circulating Treg cells of untreated early Rheumatoid Arthritis (ERA) patients and its relation with the ex vivo effect of MTX.Methods:Peripheral blood was drawn from 22 DMARD- and steroid- naïve ERA patients with a disease duration < 24 weeks, 15 longstanding RA patients (LRA, disease duration > 2 years) and 37 age and gender-matched healthy controls (HC). LRA patients were receiving low-dose weekly MTX and were naïve for biologicals. 10 ERA patients who had achieved remission 12 months after initiating MTX donated blood for a second time (ERA-R). The frequency of Treg and Treg cell subsets was assessed by flow cytometry. CD4+CD25+CD127- (total T reg), CD4+CD27+CD127-CD39+ Treg (Treg39+) and CD4+CD25-CD39- responder T (Tresp39-) cells were isolated by Ficoll-Hypaque, followed by sorting. The suppressor potency of Tregs was assessed in cocultures of isolated Tregs with Tresp, established at different Treg/Tresp ratios. Proliferation was determined by CFSE dilution; cytokine secretion was measured by ELISA of culture supernatants.Results:As previously described5, ERA but not LRA patients demonstrated a superior frequency of circulating Treg (CD4+CD25+CD127-FoxP3+) cells. In addition, the proportion of Tregs that expressed CD39 (Treg39+) was significantly increased in ERA but not LRA. Total ERA Tregs were significantly more potent suppressors of proliferation, TNFα and IFNγ secretion when compared with HC or LRA Tregs, and this difference was partially and significantly abrogated in the presence of adenosine deaminase, or the adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR) antagonists DMPX (3,7-dimethyl-1-propargylxanthine) or ZM 241385, but not in the presence of the adenosine A1 receptor antagonist DPCPX (8-cyclopentyl-dipropylxanthine). When MTX was added to the culture medium, the suppressor potency of total Tregs was further enhanced in all 3 groups of patients, and this enhancement was significantly higher in ERA total Treg/Tresp39- cocultures as compared with HC or LRA total Treg/Tresp39- cocultures. The effect of MTX was also partially and significantly abrogated by adenosine deaminase, DMPX or ZM 241385 but not by DPCPX. We then tested the suppressor potency of isolated Treg39+ together with the enhancer effect of MTX on this potency, and observed that there were no longer differences among ERA, LRA and HC; this further suggests that the differences observed in assays using total Tregs can be attributable to the increased Treg39+ proportions present in ERA. The frequency and function of ERA-R Treg cells were not different from HC or LRA Tregs.Conclusion:The suppressor action of CD39+Tregs is mediated at least in part by adenosine trough A2AR ligation, and the superior suppressive potency of total ERA Tregs is associated with their higher proportion of TregCD39+ cells as compared with HC or LRA. In addition, the augmented suppressor effect observed in the presence of MTX is partly mediated by an increased adenosine production acting on A2AR and is more marked in ERA patients reflecting again their higher proportion of Treg39+ cells. This indicates that MTX cooperates with Treg39+ cells in the control of inflammation.References:[1]Montesinos MC, et al. Arthritis Rheum. 2007.[2]Peres RS, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015.[3]Deaglio S, et al. J Exp Med. 2007.[4]Borsellino G, et al. Blood. 2007.[5]Benito-Miguel M, et al. J Immunol. 2009.Acknowledgements:FIS PI 20/00141; FIS RD16/0012/0012; Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), unrestricted research grant from Gebro PharmaDisclosure of Interests:Laura Nuño: None declared, Alejandro Villalva: None declared, Marta Novella-Navarro: None declared, Irene Monjo: None declared, Diana Peiteado: None declared, Sara García-Carazo: None declared, Amaya Puig-Kröger: None declared, Alejandro Balsa Grant/research support from: BMS, Gebro Pharma, Maria-Eugenia Miranda-Carus Grant/research support from: BMS, Gebro Pharma

Background:Apremilast is a non-biologic systemic agent approved for the treatment of plaque psoriasis, oral ulcers of Behcet’s disease and PsA with proven efficacy in clinical trials [1,2]. However, more real-world evidence of apremilast use and effectiveness is needed to identify the patient profile most likely to benefit from this treatment [3].Objectives:To evaluate the persistence of apremilast treatment in patients with PsA naïve to biological treatments in routine clinical practice and assess its effectiveness. Baseline clinical characteristics on patients who started apremilast were also evaluated.Methods:Observational, prospective, multicenter (20 centers) study including consecutive adult patients with PsA naïve to biological therapies who had started treatment with apremilast during the previous 5 to 7 months and were followed-up during 12 months. Variables recorded were persistence of treatment with apremilast at 6 months (6mo) and number of swelling joints, presence of enthesitis and dactylitis, and disease activity, measured by the Disease Activity in Psoriatic Arthritis (DAPSA) score and Physician Global Assessment (PGA) of psoriasis, collected at baseline (BL) (i.e., apremilast treatment start) and 6mo; comorbidities were retrospectively collected at BL. Categorical and quantitative variables were compared using McNemar’s and Wilcoxon test, respectively. Data sets analyzed included all assessable patients.Results:Of the 60 patients recruited at the time of this interim analysis, 54 (90.0%) [mean (SD) age 53.4 (13.9) years] were assessable; 41 (75.9%) of these continued treatment with apremilast at 6mo. At BL, 34 (63.0%) patients had at least one comorbidity, the most frequent being cardiovascular disease (n=15, 27.8%), including hypertension (n=8, 14.8%), metabolic/endocrine disease (n=18, 33.3%), including obesity (n=8, 14.8%) and dyslipidemia (n=10, 18.5%). Psychiatric disease (i.e., depression) (n=5, 9.3%) and neoplasia (n=8, 14.8%) were also observed. The number of swelling joints decreased from median (Q1, Q3) 4.0 (2.0, 7.0) at BL to 1.5 (0.0, 4.0) at 6mo (p=0.0012). Patients with dactylitis and enthesitis decreased from 19 (35.2%) and 16 (29.6%) at BL to 10 (18.5%) and 9 (16.7%) at 6mo (p=0.0225 and p=0.0391), respectively. The distribution of patients in the different disease activity categories according to DAPSA scale changed between BL and 6mo, indicating a favorable disease evolution (Figure 1 next page). According to PGA, at BL (n=53), disease activity was categorized as mild in 18.0%, as moderate in 72.0%, and as severe in 10% of patients and, at 6mo (n=54), as mild in 70.6%, as moderate in 25.5%, and as severe in 3.9% of patients. Fifteen (27.8%) patients interrupted treatment permanently (n=13, 24.1%) or temporarily (n=2, 3.7%), due to no/partial response (n=8, 14.8%), tolerability issues leading to adverse events (n=3, 5.6%), patient decision (n=2, 3.7%), and other reasons (n=2, 3.7%) after a mean (SD) treatment of 3.05 (2.20) months.Conclusion:Forty-one (75.9%) patients with PsA naïve to biological therapies were treated with apremilast during ≥6 months. After treatment, the number of swelling joints, and dactylitis and enthesitis decreased and changes in disease activity according to DAPSA and PGA pointed to a favorable disease evolution. Apremilast treatment provides a clinical benefit to patients with PsA treated in clinical practice.References:[1]Gossec L, Smolen JS, Ramiro S, et al. European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of psoriatic arthritis with pharmacological therapies: 2015 update. Ann Rheum Dis. 2016 Feb 10;75(3):499 LP-510[2]Torres T and Puig L. Apremilast: A novel oral treatment for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Am J clin Dermatol. 2018 Feb;19(1):23-32[3]Coates LC, Kavanaugh A, Mease PJ et al. Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis 2015. Treatment Recommendations for Psoriatic Arthritis. 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Drawing on the pioneering work of Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, the contributors to Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory argue that it is time for social scientists to deepen our own understanding of soil. We need to consider how to think with soils and recentre the set of embodied relationships that lie at the heart of this lively world beneath our feet. The only way to confront the ecological crisis we face is to decolonize our narratives of conservation and reimagine it as an ongoing process of socioecological entanglement in which humans and non-humans are active agents. The collection succeeds in prompting deep and meaningful consideration of what it might mean to live into our relationships with soil, and how sustained reflection on the material politics of soil might shift the way we think about and act on the so-called soil crisis.

Søren Langager Høgh: “Tinglysning* – Who Cares in Peter Adolphsen’s novel Brummstein (2003)?”Focusing on the concept of care (including matters-of-care, ethos of care, care giver/care taker, cute [kær], sorrow, diligence and the new term GeoWei) this paper argues that Peter Adolphsen’s novel Brummstein (2003) is a speculative accomplishment in the politics of causality. The main trajectory of the novel focuses on a stone that is given the necessary space to be included in the Social, which we in an uncaring world view tend to reserve for humans. Based on Maria Puig de Bellacasa’s reading of Bruno Latour’s notion of matters-of-concern, I propose to interpret the role text is given in the practice of caring for neglected things in Brummstein as a quality of literature.* “Tinglysning” is a old Danish word used in present language of property law, meaning both 1) land registration, 2) to shed light on the thing and 3) to shed light on a concern in a political gathering i.e. literally to make things public

This text explicates a particular pedagogical event—Speculative Harbouring—a postgraduate workshop in which students from different disciplines formed around concerns of how we might better care for, and with, urban harbours. The harbour we attended to is presently referred to as Blackwattle Bay, which is a site in Eora Nation, Sydney, Australia currently undergoing significant redevelopment. The purpose of the workshop, or rather walkshop, was two-fold: to introduce participants to research practices from a range of disciplines, and to construct a field-guide to highlight ways in which Blackwattle Bay is, has, and might be, inhabited, cared for (or not) and the complex ecological and social demands this creates. To begin the walkshop, participants each shared a different method for examining place from their disciplinary field. During the twoday event, these different methods were activated through the practice of walking and were used to produce the Speculative Harbouring Field-Guide to Blackwattle Bay. In our discussion, we draw on feminist practices and politics of care, in particular, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa’s articulation of “matters of care,” alongside Anna Tsing’s “arts of noticing” and notions of critical public pedagogy, to examine ways in which walking and reflecting can attune people to learning to care and how a field guide might facilitate such attuning.

Resumo Josep Maria Puig é um dos maiores especialistas internacionais em Educação Moral. Durante toda sua trajetória acadêmica e pessoal, a educação moral ocupou lugar central em suas pesquisas, reflexões, preocupações, docência e modo de viver. Os escritos e investigações do professor Puig, em Catalão, Espanhol e Português, converteram-se em uma das principais referências teóricas na américa latina nos estudos acerca da moralidade humana. Citado em mais de 800 teses e artigos no Brasil, seu trabalho exerceu e ainda hoje exerce grande influência em toda uma geração de pesquisadores brasileiros. Na entrevista que se segue, para além da trajetória acadêmica do Prof. Puig, apresentamos suas reflexões a respeito da educação moral em diferentes dimensões: teóricas, práticas, políticas, sociais e pessoais. Como não poderia deixar de ser, em tempos em que se fala de uma escola sem partido, Puig discorre também acerca do legado de Paulo Freire e a influência que exerceu em todo o seu trabalho. Trata-se, pois, de temas que mobilizam preocupações atuais e da maior relevância para a formação ética e moral das futuras gerações.

The modern instantiation of migrant family detention in the United States has resulted in the creation of carceral spaces in which conflict and care intermingle in everyday encounters. While legal advocates traversing these spaces offer critical aid to the detained, asylum-seeking parents and children confined within, legal advocacy is rarely recognized as caregiving work. Drawing from my ethnographic research with voluntary legal advocates working at family detention facilities in South Texas, this article demonstrates the potential for deploying a lens of care to such encounters, which I ultimately frame as “legal care.” I argue that cross-disciplinary conceptualizations of care, which emphasize its interdependency, relationality, and contested terrains (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017), as well as its practices as being marked by a continuous tinkering (Mol 2010), offer windows to reconfigurations of care and power that reside amid both the mundane and unpredictable frictions that characterize these environments.

In this paper we explore how smartphone users in Victoria (Australia) used mobile and non-mobile media to find and manage information, emotions and networks during the 2019-2020 Australian summer bushfire crisis. Through arts-based methods that deployed drawing, critical reflection and group discussion, we sought to use techniques that elicit the emotional responses and motivations of our participants in and after the crisis. We draw on the concept of affective witnessing (Papailias, 2016; Richardson and Schankweiler, 2019) as a process whereby the boundaries between mourner and witness blur through the affective intensity of mobile media. We contextualise affective witnessing in terms of feminist materialism of care practices (Pols, 2012; Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011; Lupton and Hjorth, forthcoming) to focus on the importance of taking seriously care—care at a distance of family and friends, self-care and care of intimate digital publics.

In this article, I explore questions of laboratory animal agency in dialogue with Thalia Field’s literary text “Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction” (2016). Using the framework of “care” (understood, following María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017, as a multi-dimensional concept comprising affect, ethics, and practice), I consider how Field’s synaesthetic descriptions of animal suffering create an affective response in readers, alerting them to a shared carnal vulnerability. Indeed, rather than anthropomorphizing animals through narration or focalization, Field “stays with the body” to consider how animals call to us not as experimental objects, but as ethical subjects, how they become – in other words – agents of the description (Stewart 2016). To develop this idea, I introduce the “practiced” dimension of care. More specifically, I explore how Field uses narrative strategies like first-person narration and second-person address, “bridge characters” (James 2019), and juxtaposition to morally structure the text and encourage “transspecies alliances” between readers and represented animals. I argue that such devices direct and train affect, allowing us to better appreciate how conceptions of nonhuman animal agency are always contextualized within particular sets of social, cultural, historical, and disciplinary frames and practices.

It’s a cool autumn morning and I am grateful for the sun as it warms the wet concrete. I have been told we will be spending some time outside later, so I am hopeful it will remain sunny. When everyone arrives, we go directly to the principal’s office. Once inside, someone points at the PA system. People pull out their cameras and take a quick photo—we were told the PA system in each school can be different so information about the broadcasting mechanism could be helpful in an emergency. I decide to take a photo as well. Figure 1: PA system inside the principal's office (Photo by Michelle Stewart) The principal joins us and we begin the task of moving through the school: a principal, two plain clothes police officers, two uniformed police officers, two police volunteers and an anthropologist researcher. Our goal is to document the entire school for a police program called School Action For Emergencies (SAFE) that seeks to create emergency plans for each school on a national Canadian police database. It is a massive undertaking to collect the data necessary to create the interactive maps of each school. We were told that potential hiding spaces were one focus alongside the general layout of the school; the other focus is thinking about potential response routes and staging for emergency responders. We snap photos based on our morning training. Broom closets and cubbyholes are now potential hiding spots that must be documented with a photo and narrated with a strategy. Misplaced items present their own challenges. A large gym mattress stored under the stairs. The principal comments that the mattress needs to be returned to the gym; a volunteer crouches down and takes a picture in the event that it remains permanently and creates a potential hiding spot. Figure 2: Documenting gym mat in hallway/potential hiding spot (Photo by Michelle Stewart) We emerge from the school, take a photo of the door, and enter the schoolyard. We move along the fence line: some individuals take notes about the physical characteristics of the property, others jot down the height of the retaining wall, still others take photos of the neighboring properties. Everyone is taking notes, taking photos, or comparing notes and photos. Soon we will be back at the police station for the larger project of harmonizing all the data into a massive mapping database. Locating the State in Its Objects Focusing on a Canadian police program called School Action for Emergency (SAFE), this article discusses the material labour practices required to create a virtual object—an augmented map. This mapping program provides a venue through which to consider the ways augmented objects come into the world. In this article, I discuss the labour practices necessary to create this map and then illustrate how labour practices are erased as part of this production and consumption of an augmented technology meant to facilitate an effective emergency response. In so doing, I will also discuss the production of authority and expertise through deployment of these police aids. As someone concerned with the ways in which the state instantiates itself into the lives of its subjects, I look at the particular enrollment practices of citizen and state agents as part of statecraft (Stewart). From Weber we are told about the role of police as they relate to state power, “state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Note that 'territory' is one of the characteristics of the state. Specifically, at the present time, the right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals only to the extent to which the state permits it” (Weber, 34 my emphasis). I would argue that part of this monopoly involves cultivating citizen consent; that the subordination of citizens is equally important to police power as is the state’s permission to act. One way citizen consent is cultivated is through the performance of expertise such that subjects agree to give police power because police appear to be experts. Seen this way, police aids can be critical in cultivating this type of consent through the appearance of police as experts when they appear all knowing; what is often forgotten are the workers and aids that support that appearance (think here of dispatchers and databases). Becoming SAFE The SAFE project is an initiative of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the national police force in Canada. The goal of the program is to “certify” every school in the country, meaning each school will have documentation of the school that has been uploaded into the SAFE computer program. As illustrated in the introduction, this is a time-consuming process requiring not only photos and other data be collected but also all of this data and material be uploaded into the RCMP’s centralized computer program. The desired effect is that each school will have a SAFE program so police and dispatchers can access this massive collection of the data in the event of an emergency. During my time conducting research with the RCMP, I attended training sessions with John, a young corporal in the national police force. One of John’s duties was to coordinate the certification of the SAFE program that included training sessions. The program was initiated in 2007, and within one year, the province we were working in began the process of certifying approximately 850 of its 1700 schools; it had completed over 170 schools and identified 180 local SAFE coordinators. In that first year alone over 23,000 photos had been uploaded and 2,800 school layouts were available. In short, SAFE was a data heavy, labour-intensive process and one of John’s jobs was to visit police stations to get them started certifying local schools. Certification requires that at least one police officer be involved in the documentation of the school (photos and notes). After all the data is collected it must be articulated into the computer program through prompts that allow for photos and narratives to be uploaded. In the session described in the introduction, John worked with a group of local police and police auxiliaries (volunteers). The session started with a short Power Point presentation that included information about recent school tragedies, an audio clip from Columbine that detailed the final moments of a victim as she hid from killers, and then a practical, hands-on engagement with the computer software. Prior to leaving for on-site data collection, John had the trainees open the computer program to become familiar with the screens and prompts. He highlighted the program was user-friendly, and that any mistake made could be corrected. He focused on instilling interest before leaving for the school to collect data. During this on-site visit, as I trailed behind the participants, I was fascinated by one particularly diligent volunteer. He bent, climbed, and stretched to take photos and then made careful notations. Back at the police station he was just as committed to detail when he was paired up with his partner in front of the computer. They poured over their combined notes and photos; making routes and then correcting them; demanding different types of maps to compare their handwritten notes to the apparent errors in the computer map; demanding a street map for one further clarification of the proposed route. His commitment to the process, I started to think, was quite substantial. Because of his commitment, he had to engage in quite a bit of labour. But it was in this process of refining his data that I started to see the erasure of labour. I want to take some time now to discuss the process of erasure by turning attention to feminist and labour theory emerging from science and technology studies as means to articulate what was, and was not, taking place during the data entry. Maria Puig de la Bellacasa highlights the role of care as it relates to labour. In so doing, she joins a literature that draws attention to the ways in which labour is erased through specific social and material practices (see for example works in Gibson-Graham, Resnick and Wolf). More specifically, Puig de la Bellacasa investigates care in labour as it effects what she calls “knowledge politics” (85). In her work, Puig de la Bellaca discusses Suchman’s research on software design programs that produce virtual “office assistants” to assist the user. Suchman’s work reveals the ways in which this type of “assistant” must be visible enough to assist the user but not visible enough to require recognition. In so doing, Suchman illustrates how these programs replicate the office (and domestic servant) dynamics. Seen this way, labour becomes undervalued (think for example interns, assistants, etc.) and labour that is critical to many offices (and homes). Suchman’s work in this area is helpful when thinking about the role of augmented objects such as the augmented police map because in many ways it is a type of office assistant for police officers, handing over virtual notes and information about a location that police would otherwise not necessarily know thereby replicating the office dynamic of the boss that appears all knowing because, in part, s/he has a team that supports every aspect of their work. This devalued work (the lower paid intern or assistant) facilitates the authority—and ultimately the higher wage of the boss—who appears to earn this status. Let me layer this analysis of the “office assistant” with the similar phenomena in scientific knowledge production. Steven Shapin, a sociologist of science, discusses Robert Boyle’s 17th century laboratory and the various technicians in the background that assisted in experiments but remained ignored. Shapin argues contemporary scientific practice has changed little in this regard as technicians remain unaccounted for in the scientific record. He points out “science could not be made if this technician’s work were not done, but it is thought that anyone can do it” (Shapin, 557). Without these workers and their labour, scientific knowledge would not be possible, and yet they are ignored and their labour contribution erased (for example not included in formal discussion about the research, or more recently not included as authors in articles). Of course many technicians are/were paid, but nevertheless their role in the experiment erased. One figure emerged as the expert, the scientist, whose work appeared to be solely configured and created. Programs such as the SAFE project illustrate ways in which the police officer can emerge as an authority figure; but the authority rests on labour practices that move around in the background and go unacknowledged. Much like the lab, there are many ignored figures that produce the necessary objects of police work. In the case of the SAFE program, the ideal is that a police officer will respond to a call for service and with the click of a computer screen will be immersed in this augmented map. One click reveals data about the PA system, another click offers a full layout of the school, instructions about the design of the exits, notes about potential hiding spots inside, the list goes on. Each click is a product of labourer(s) that compiled the data. But these individuals, much like Boyle’s laboratory technicians, fade into the background and are erased as the police officer emerges as an authority. The map, an augmented object, may be credited with the data it holds, but the data collectors are long forgotten as the police officer stands alone as the subject of authority because of the smooth effects of the augmented map. Smooth Effects In an era of big data and data-intensive experiences, augmented objects are increasingly present in our daily lives—with expanded tolerance and appetite. When engaging an augmented object, there is a built-in expectation that the object will "work;" meaning it will run smoothly and effectively. Take Google Maps as an example: one expects the program will run on different scales, offer the capacity to map directions, and perhaps most importantly to be accurate. When these augmented objects run smoothly they appear to be a self-contained and organized object in and of themselves. This paper intervenes on these assumptions to illustrate that this “smooth effect” can serve to erase the labour necessary to produce the effect. Thinking here of the commodity fetish, one can recall Karl Marx’s intervention that illustrated how objects, commodities, permeate our social worlds in such ways that we can see the object—that we only see the object. This concept, commodity fetishism, argues that we erase the labour and social relations involved in the production of the objects, that we forget all that was required to create the object, and we don’t see all that was destroyed in its making. An example is to think of a cup of coffee. As you sip and consume it, do you think of the commodity chain? Do you think of the worker, the working conditions necessary to plant, harvest, roast and distribute the beans; do you think about the production of the bag the beans were transported in; do you think of the warehouse or coffeehouse from which the bag of beans came from? You more likely think about how it tastes—as an object in and of itself, how it is, rather than how it came into being in the world. Similarly, I want to think about this augmented map and how attention turns to it, not how it came into the world. Thinking about labour as it relates to computer programs and computer worlds, social scientists have investigated the necessary work of computer programmers and other labourers (see for example Kelty). Tiziana Terranova discusses the immaterial and affective labour that makes online communities thrive as individuals lend their labour (often unpaid) to create an online “world” that appears to organically come together—she argues these online communities are a product of free labour. Although the police are not working for “free” the volunteers are and the valorization of labour, if erased, still results in the similar outcome. Terranova is concerned about online communities that don’t simply come into being, but rather are the product of free labour. In the case of the SAFE program, labour practices are rendered invisible when augmented objects appear to be running smoothly —when in fact this appearance of smoothness necessarily requires labour and the commodity being exchanged is the claim to authority. Figure 3: Cross referencing hardcopy map (Photo by Michelle Stewart) Figure 4: Using a hand-drawn map to assist data entry (Photo by Michelle Stewart) Moving in a different direction, but still thinking about labour, I want to turn to the work of Chris Kortright. In his work about agricultural scientists, Kortright carefully details the physical practices associated with growing an experimental crop of sorghum. From the counting and washing of the seeds, to the planting and harvesting of the seeds, he delivers rich ethnographic stories from experimental fields and labs. He closes with the story of one researcher as she enters all the data into the computer to generate one powerpoint. He explains her frustration: “You can’t see all the time we spent. The nights we slept here. All the seeds and plants. The flooding and time at the greenhouse. All the people and the labour.” I nodded, these things had disappeared. In the table, only numbers existed. (Kortright, 20) Kortright argues for the need to recognize the social relations carved out in the field that are erased through the process of producing scientific knowledge—the young researcher ultimately knowing her labour did have a place on the slide.In much the same way, the police and volunteers engaged in a practice of removing themselves from the map. There was not enough space for long sentences explaining the debate about the best route to take; longer sentences were replace with short-phrased instructions. Conjuring the image of the police officer looking for fast, quick information, quick data was what they would deliver. The focus of the program was to place emergency icons (police cars, ambulance, fire engines and helicopters) onto the map, outline response routes, and offer photos as the evidence. Their role as individuals and their labour and creativity (itself a form of labour) was erased as the desired outcome was ease and access to data—a smooth effect. I was often told that many of the police cars don’t yet have a computer inside but in an idealized future world, police cars would be equipped with a computer console. In this world, officers could receive the call for service, access the program and start to move through layers of data rapidly while receiving the details of the call. This officer would arrive informed, and prepared to effectively respond to the emergency. Thinking back to labour required to create the SAFE map for each school (photographing, mapping, writing instructions, comparing details, etc.) and then the processes of hiding that labour (limited photos and short instructions) so that the program would appear to run smoothly and be user-friendly, the SAFE program, as an object, serves to abstract and erase labour. Indeed, the desired result was a smooth running program that operated much like Suchman’s office assistant who should be just visible enough to provide the needed help but otherwise remain invisible; similar in many ways to Shapin/Boyle’s scientific technician who is critical to knowledge production and yet remains formally unrecognized. Conclusion This article investigated a map as an entry point to understand the ways in which labour can be erased in augmented objects and, concurrently, how authority figures or experts instead emerge. 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In this paper, we draw on our collaborative work running a salon for thinking about care in STS research, which quickly became more about fostering an ethico-politics for thinking with care as a mode of academic intervention. Not dissimilar to the origins of the salon in nineteenth-century France, the salon provided a provocative and disruptive space for early career researchers (ECRs) to think together. As attention and critique increasingly point towards the unequal distribution of harms arising from marketization and the vulnerability of ECRs in the ‘neoliberal university,’ we have witnessed a surge in activities that promise a supportive space, such as pre-conference conferences, seminar series, discussion forums and self-care workshops. In this paper, we ask not only what these modes of care might make possible, but also what exclusionary practices and patterns they mask or render more palatable (Ahmed, 2004; Duclos & Criado, 2020; Martin et al., 2015; Murphy, 2015). Reflecting on our experiences of organizing and participating in the salon, with the stated purpose to explore ‘ecologies of care’ as an embodied socio-material practice (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017), we move from care ‘out there’ in STS research to care ‘in here’. We follow threads spun by and out from the group to rethink our own academic care practices and how to do the academy otherwise.

During the last 10 years the Science and Technology Studies (STS) community has witnessed a flourishing, intense and multifaceted engagement around “care”. While care had been addressed already before in Joanna Latimer’s The conduct of care: Understanding nursing practice (Latimer, 2000) , and in Jeanette Pols’ Good care: Enacting a complex ideal in long term-psychiatry (Pols, 2004), care seemed to be on everybody’s lips around 2010. Around the same time, the edited volume Care in practice: On tinkering in clinics, homes and farms (Mol et al., 2010) and the article Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011) were published. With akin, yet partly diverging, agendas and concerns, these two key publications drastically increased the amount of research that identify with something like an area of “care studies” in STS. This can also be seen in the publication of special issues devoted to care during the last years, notably the much-cited 2015 issue in Social Studies of Science focused on feminist technoscience interventions into the politics and “darker sides” of care (Martin et al., 2015), and the more recent on relationalities and specificities of care in East Asian Science, Technology and Society (Coopmans & McNamara, 2020). Noteworthy is also the special issue on “The politics of policy practices” in The Sociological Review Monograph, where Gill et al. (2017) discuss how policy and care are entangled, and how such entanglements could be enacted more “care-fully”. These publications have spurred rich and generative engagements about ways to attend to the affective, ethico-political and/or material layers of care, within and beyond areas traditionally thought of as related to care (such as healthcare and childcare).