More Care, Less Self? How to (Hopefully) Move Beyond Complaint, Critique, and Coloniality
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From: Decolonize Self-Care
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Chapter 4 discussed the self-care industry’s use of social justice language as it continues to be a market that relies on inspiration and appropriation of indigenity and other cultural practices for marketing to wealthy, white, cis women. The authors also explored the radical wellness projects undertaken by the working class, black, indigenous, disabled, trans, and queer communities and how readers can pursue a decolonial and collectivist version of self-care.
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Contributors
Alyson K. Spurgas
Alyson K. Spurgas is associate professor of Sociology and affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Spurgas researches, writes, and teaches about the sociology of trauma, the politics of desire, and technologies of care from an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist perspective. They are also the author of Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century (The Ohio State University Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Cultural Studies Association First Book Prize. Alyson lives in Brooklyn, New York, with their amazing partner and cat.
Zoë Meleo-Erwin
Zoë Meleo-Erwin is a qualitative sociologist and former assistant professor of public health. In 2022, she left academia to pursue a career as a user experience researcher in the tech industry. As a scholar, her work focused on the meanings of health and illness, health decision-making, experiences of embodiment, and the ways in which digital technologies facilitate the creation of both identity and community around health and illness.
