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Lima, Antónia (2022). Experiencing and sensing uncertainty: despair, hope and the powers of care. 17th EASA Biennial Conference EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons.

M. A. Lima,  "Experiencing and sensing uncertainty: despair, hope and the powers of care", in 17th EASA Biennial Conf. EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons, Belfast, 2022

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	author = "Lima, Antónia",
	title = "Experiencing and sensing uncertainty: despair, hope and the powers of care",
	year = "2022",
	howpublished = "Ambos (impresso e digital)",
	url = "https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/programme#timetable"
}

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TI  - Experiencing and sensing uncertainty: despair, hope and the powers of care
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AB  - This paper analyses the experience of living in uncertain times, focusing on how the articulation between emotions and care produce the possibility a life worth living, while creating asymmetries and power relations.
Building on ethnographic work in Portugal I will discuss how people confronted with shortcomings in the state care system - during the austerity crisis (2011-2015) and the pandemic period (2020-2022) - people turned to informal ways of making ends meet. Broad care relations, imbued with emotional sympathy and a morality of “care” and the common good, have made life possible for people in despair.
By focusing on the new regimes of care developed to overcome the challenges of a precarious present, and on the multiple ways by which uncertainty becomes embodied, I will further argue how uncertainty deeply transforms the constitutive processes of being a person, and how the existance of hope is what makes  it possible for people in dispair to engage in strategies to make the present possible and envision a future.
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