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In the COVID-19 pandemic the (nuclear) family, and the private household that is assumed to contain it, receives an enormous revaluation across different welfare regimes. At the same time the notion of a nationally formed welfare state that protects "its" vulnerable national population is re-enacted as a central care entity. From an intersectional and transnational perspective, the article coins the concepts of "care familialism" and "care nationalism" to analyse both the conditions of inequality and the exclusionary effects of these intertwined formations of "home" in the wake of the pandemic state crisis management in Germany. The article presents central dimensions of German care familialism and care nationalism to demonstrate how - and which - hierarchies of care/carelessness are systematically established and deepened within the current state of pandemic policies - from the neglect of those who cannot retreat to a "safe home" to the necropolitics of tightened border regimes and carelessness towards those who are recruited to provide care as live-in or illegalised domestic workers. Against an often-unquestioned methodological familialism and methodological nationalism in current care debates, a research agenda is proposed, which methodologically and conceptually decentres the family and the nation as the dominant formations through which care relations are institutionalised.

This book contains the proceedings of the Tenth European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Special Topic Conference 2010; Europe's leading forum for presenting the results of current scientific work in health informatics processes, systems and technologies. Included are two invited keynotes, one session keynote and 25 full papers, selected by the Scientific Programme Committee from 61 submissions, each rigorously reviewed by three reviewers. Subjects include: Electronic health records and personal health records, traceability, security, privacy and safety and quality, as well as intero

Der Begriff Care wird im deutschsprachigen Raum zumeist mit Sorge, Fürsorge, fürsorglicher Praxis oder Sorgearbeit übersetzt. Als gemeinsamer Bezugspunkt theoretischer Konzeptionen kann gelten, dass Care eine spezifische Logik der Relationalität aufweist. Care fungiert in wissenschaftlichen, philosophischen und politischen Kontexten als sensibilisierendes Konzept zur Kategorisierung von Sorge sowie als Analyseinstrument, das auf die Kritik der geschlechtshierarchischen Arbeitsteilung und der kapitalistischen Produktionsverhältnisse gerichtet ist. Empirische Forschungsvorhaben zu Care weisen in ihren Fragestellungen häufig einen expliziten Bezug zur Geschlechterforschung auf.

This working paper, as we will call it, presents two (pro)positions that should be seen as works in progress. Their job is to enable the beginnings of a conversation directed at advancing another work in progress, the Ecology of Care project. The essential goal of this paper and the symposium that it serves to inform is to begin a process of concretizing the otherwise lost but vitally important concept we call Care. In writing this paper we will attempt to adopt a 'position' through an extensive but not complete review of existing and past thinking in order to "find a line and then to hang a convincing and interesting story on it" (Glanville, 2014). In doing this we also recognise and appreciate that some readers may find the text less than accessible at times because of what might be viewed as philosophical or esoteric language. Using this language and writing style is not intentionally done to make the reading and understanding process heavy going. It is quite the opposite, in fact. At times it has been necessary to delve sufficiently deeply into some of the topics discussed using the language of the thinkers who have paved the way. This may be off-putting to some who are not familiar with these fields and these types of terminology and this has been avoided where possible as we would like to speak clearly to an intentionally diverse audience from academia, government and industry. So if you, the reader, feel a little confused by some of the arguments, then that is also helpful. Please remember that your reactions are important as they tell us what we need to make clearer. Through the concepts presented in this paper, we have tried to tell the most understandable story, knowing that for some readers the presentation will be too dense and for others too simplistic. If you find that you struggle with some of the ways the concepts are presented, please follow Glanville's suggestion and not simply dismiss the ideas by giving up on the reading but do persevere. By monitoring the way in which you grapple with some or all of the propositions put forward in this paper you will be contributing to the collective understanding that we are striving for. The 'position' or in this case propositions, delivered in this paper take two forms. Firstly we will present a framework for understanding Care in terms of Dimensions of Care. This framework is very conceptual and in some ways a severe abstraction of the acknowledged complexity of such a holistic notion such as Care. Its role is to simplify Care, as we formulate it, to a point where its complexity can begin to be understood in ways that might be practically useful. After all, Care derives much of its meaning through the actions taken in its name, but more on this later. The second proposition offers a set of essential qualities that Care possesses which might help us to better understand the concept so that we might apply them in more practical ways. These qualities take on increased importance when we consider that Care is essentially what it means to be human so essentially these qualities of Care form a kind of conceptual DNA , a set of building blocks for how we might recognise Care in and for ourselves as a species differentiated from others. Again, more on this later. In presenting these two propositions as Dimensions of Care and Qualities of Care we fully acknowledge that they and the sub-elements that constitute them are never discrete or fixed at any point. Like the relationship between light particles and light waves, these 'parts' constitute an evolving system of living interaction and Being that defines Care, where any or all of Cares parts at any given point in time are continually co-constituting each other within a dynamic and interactive whole we call everyday life. In a highly abbreviated form our two key propositions are presented as follows; PROPOSITION 1: DIMENSIONS OF CARE Care is informed and shaped by everyday experience; it is constituted over time in consciously aware responses that impact on our self, others and the world. PROPOSITION 2: QUALITIES OF CARE. What does care look like? What does it mean to Care? How will we know Care when we see it?