Abstract: The pandemic acutely revealed the need for self-care among healthcare workers; yet, ‘self-care’ has infiltrated nearly every food, leisure, and pop-culture space as a hugely lucrative industry. In Decolonize Self-Care, authors Alyson K. Spurgas, PhD (Associate Professor of Sociology, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut) and Zoë Meleo-Erwin, PhD (qualitative sociologist and former assistant professor of public health) deliver a comprehensive sociological analysis and scathing critique of the term’s capitalist, racist undertones. They advocate a full reckoning with the exclusionary, appropriative nature of most of the wellness industry as a necessary first step in developing new models of care and well-being that afford everyone health, pleasure, and community.
Sponsored by the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hil
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