“Something We Call Care”: Land, Community, and the Social Imaginary

About this episode

This episode features a conversation about the impact of land loss and displacement on communities, highlighting the absence of institutional recovery programs.

Join us for this lyrical yet sobering conversation between psychoanalyst, filmmaker, and professor, Dr. Ricardo (Rico) Ainslie and anthropologist, professor and author , Dr. Angela Garcia. Through offering us an intimate look into the communities they work with and belong to, our guests bring us into the lives of those impacted by the historical trauma of land loss, displacement, and suffering. Using an ethnographic approach that is rooted in subject-centered ethics, our guests share clinical wisdom rooted in identifying the absence of institutional recovery programs as the site of community care. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guests: Dr Ricardo Ainslie, Dr Angela Garcia

Topics covered

• land
• community
• social imaginary
• historical trauma
• displacement
• community care

Keywords

• ethnographic approach
• subject-centered ethics
• clinical wisdom

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