- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Thursday 3 Sep 2020, 11:30 - 13:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
This research considers the relationship between care and place, arguing that understanding these in singular terms is not enough: care should be conceived much more broadly than medical care, just as place should be seen as denoting something richer and more complex than a simple location on the map. It furthermore argues that care and place are co-produced and cannot, and should not, be understood separately.
Practically, this work formulates recommendations to policy makers, healthcare professionals and citizens to consider the numerous ways, in which care is placed. Policies, such as Aging in Place, Right Care on the Right Place and Regionalization must take place seriously, avoid romanticizing ‘the region’ or ‘the neighborhood’ and develop attention for the affective relations between place and care. Moving healthcare services must be done carefully, with an awareness on the underlying values at stake in such decisions. Finally, the book argues for the democratization of placemaking in and with care, urging citizens to accept the responsibility of making places caring as an act of living together with care.