• Publisher: *cf.
• 299 pages
• Author: Darja Zaviršek
• Original title: Skrb kot nasilje

In Care as Violence, Zaviršek explores the contexts in which care, or what manifests as care, turns into power, and power often into violence. She focuses on post-socialist societies, that is, those that have a common experience of socialist systems. The book is an ethnographic description of a specific period, the archiving of personal knowledge and the stories of people, which will soon be forgotten. Zaviršek studies topics such as the situation of people with handicaps, the position of women and members of ethnic minorities, the question of growing inequality, and the position of children who were victims of abuse and contextualises them anew, in the light of the processes of care, which are often simply a normalised form of violence. She uses different analytical categories, such as care, memory, violence, post-socialism, neopatriarchy, different theoretical concepts, among them structuralism, feminism and critical theories, and methods such as ethnography and autoethnography and analysis of media contents and visual materials.

About the author

Darja Zaviršek

Darja Zaviršek (1962) is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Ljubljana and at the University of Applied Science Alice Salomon Berlin. She is the president of the East European subregional Association of the Schools of Social Work of the IASSW. Here research and publications are in the areas of disability and gender studies, critical ethnicity studies, history of social work education under communism.