Time-space practices of care after a family death in urban Senegal.

Keywords: Feminist ethic of care; informal care; family relations; time-space practices; death and bereavement; ubuntu; Senegal west africa; ética feminista del cuidado; cuidado informal; relaciones familiares; prácticas espacio-temporales; muerte y duelo; Senegal; África Occidental; Éthique féministe du care; care informel; relations familiales; pratiques spatiotemporelles; mort et deuil; Sénégal Afrique occidentale EN Feminist ethic of care informal care family relations time-space practices death and bereavement ubuntu Senegal west africa ES ética feminista del cuidado cuidado informal relaciones familiares prácticas espacio-temporales muerte y duelo Senegal África Occidental FR Éthique féministe du care care informel relations familiales pratiques spatiotemporelles mort et deuil Sénégal Afrique occidentale 1174 1192 19 10/12/22 20221001 NES 221001 Introduction After her father's death, Diami (then aged 14) moved from Kaolack to Dakar to earn money to help her mother and siblings. Here, our discussion of caringscapes focuses on the role of time-space relationships in care practices and the importance of interactions between care practices and the social and physical infrastructures of care. While we do not set out to provide anything so ambitious as a "geohistory" of care practices in Senegal, we describe local geographies of care practices and explore how these are entangled with particular conceptions of how and by whom care should be done. Gendered inequalities in family care practices in South Africa have prompted some to note that Ubuntu's encouragement of communal care responsibilities through recognition of human interdependencies still supports a patriarchal division of care work (Gouws & Van Zyl, [15]). [Extracted from the article]