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About

The Re-imagining Care Research Space is a space to share resources, research, and reflections related to care in community and academic spaces. This site is a space where we consider how care is, and could be, practiced, across various spaces, practices, and relationships and invite others to do the same.

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The development of this site was a part of Amy Kipp's preparation for her Qualifying Exams in The University of Guelph's Social Practice and Transformational Change PhD Program. Through this process, Amy attempted to 'do Qualifying Exams differently,' in a way grounded in feminist praxis and valuing different ways of knowing. This site was created as a space to share learnings from the process. After Amy completed the exam in May 2022, this has become a space where Amy, Dr. Roberta Hawkins (her advisor), and their collaborators document their work related to care and highlight the work of others.

 

Color Stain
An ethic of care for land and community
The University of Guelph is located within the Between the Lakes Purchase Treaty Agreement, also known as Treaty 3. This is the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Both the Anishinnabe and Haudenosaunee peoples have unique, long-standing and on-going relationships with each other in this area, underscored by care for and with the land. In this space focused on care, we acknowledge that care and interdependence have been key to the way knowledge has been practiced by Indigenous communities across so called Canada for centuries. As researchers working for social change, we are committed to taking part in 'troubling' how care has been practiced and understood in our communities and practicing care and solidarity in this area in an attentive, responsible, competent, and responsive way.
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