— by Jen
For this week’s reflection, I made a mind map of different ideas of “care” that I saw in My Pandemic and in Reclaiming our Time. This mind map isn’t super scientific; ultimately, I chose first-level categories because I wanted them to stand out as more important; I added items attached to these when I thought that they nested well within categories…but we could move things around by category, or move things up within category hierarchies, in endless iterations of this.
While the image below is static (and tiny!), you should be able to navigate around the mind map at this link.
Because I spend so much time thinking about classification and categorization, I enjoyed a chance to reflect on how tools like mind maps result in classifications and hierarchies, even if our intention isn’t to create hierarchy.
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Jen, this is fantastic! What a thoughtful and thorough consideration of the different valences of care. I’d love to look at this during today’s discussion.