{"id":4326,"date":"2019-10-16T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=4326"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:19:55","slug":"vera-mader","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/en\/kollegiat_innen\/vera-mader\/","title":{"rendered":"Vera Mader, M.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Universit\u00e4tsstr.\u00a0105
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Phone: +49 (0) 234\/32-27283
\nE-Mail: vera.mader@ruhr-uni-bochum.de<\/p>\n

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Title of the Dissertation<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Media Care Practices. (Working Title)<\/p>\n

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Project Description
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Care activities form the material basis of social cohabitation: the question of who cares for whom under which conditions establishes the framework in which participants negotiate experiences of community and selfhood. My project focuses on the politics of care in specific material and media practices of caring and asks to what extent media practices influence the sustained existence of \u2018more than human\u2019 environments that include objects and infrastructure as well as living beings while themselves becoming, unusually unnoticed, part of the social networks that are to be preserved, usually unnoticed.<\/p>\n

Here I am primarily interested in relationships of visibility and invisibility inherent in latent infrastructures and marginalised work or social positioning. The aim is to investigate how (counter-)documentary practices, from feminist works in film and video since the 1970s to care work in digital ecologies, problematise and politicise care in the sense of a situated ethics or praxis. As practices of critical thinking themselves, these media practices can be understood as forms of caring and communicate care as a threshold between emancipatory efforts and the consolidation of normative demands and inequality in power structures.<\/p>\n

While rendering affective relatedness again produces exclusion along the shifting boundaries of political representability, the multilayered interdependencies in constellations of care allow us to consider care as a communicative activity which remains unfettered by the logics of political representation. I ask whether the media practices situated between givers and receivers of care undermine concepts of the allocation of power to act (autonomously) connected to in\/visibility and are involved in the re-production of liveable environments.<\/p>\n

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Scholarly Career
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