Dangerous and Unprofessional Content: Anarchist Dreams for Alternate Nursing Futures

Professionalized nursing and anarchism could not be more at odds. And yet, if nursing wishes to have a future in the precarious times in which we live and die, the discipline must take on the lessons that anarchism has on offer. Part love note to a problematic profession we love and hate, part fever...

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Published in:Philosophies (Basel) 2024-02, Vol.9 (1), p.25
Main Authors: Dillard-Wright, Jess, Jenkins, Danisha
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anarchism
Capitalism
care
ethics
Femininity
futurism
Influence
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing care
Ontology
Oppression
Social aspects
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Summary:Professionalized nursing and anarchism could not be more at odds. And yet, if nursing wishes to have a future in the precarious times in which we live and die, the discipline must take on the lessons that anarchism has on offer. Part love note to a problematic profession we love and hate, part fever dream of what could be, we set out to think about what nursing and care might look like after it all falls down, because it is all falling down. Drawing on alternate histories, alternate visions of nursing history, we imagine what nursing values would look like, embracing anarchist principles. We consider examples of community survival, mutual aid, and militant joy as strategies to achieve what nursing could be if nurses put an end to their cop shit, shrugging off their shroud of white cisheteropatriarchal femininity that manifests as professionalism and civility. We conclude with a call to action and a plan for skill-building because this can all be different.
ISSN:2409-9287
2409-9287
DOI:10.3390/philosophies9010025