Khameer Kidia
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Um and there's this discourse going on about like, you know, lack of access to to m what most people think of as medical care.
But care is a concept that is very, very complicated.
Because care inherently involves some kind of hierarchical relationship between people.
Where there's some kind of, you know, when someone is caring for someone else, there is a type of vulnerability that that person who's being cared for is experiencing, and there's a type of power that the carer is experiencing.
And that power dynamic is something that can
Very easily lend itself to situations of abuse and situations of violence.
So, you know, colonizers under colonialism frequently used the idea of care as a way of disguising violence against the natives, you know, you know, putting them into asylums.
And caring for them because they were mad or because they were, you know, not fitting with the social norms of that colonial society.
Mental health care itself, I show again and again during the book, is something that can be extremely powered in a way that causes violence and oppression and that harms people who are out there trying to.
Trying to get help.
The reason that the that type of care is more valuable than the type of care that I'm interested in, social care, is because of professionalization, because of the way that
Economic power has, you know, filtered into the medical guilds.
And now doctors, clinical psychologists, even social workers are trying to protect their guilds of economic and social power in society because they want to carry on earning the same amount that they carry on earning.
And so what they do is gatekeep who
Can provide care and who cannot.
And they call certain types of care official care, and they call other types of care, you know, peer support or lay health worker care.
And that care is considered to be not as legit as the type of care that a doctor can provide.
But you know, like that example shows, you know, a peer counselor can save five lives in the amount of time that a neurosurge.
surgeon is taking out a benign tumor, social care that comes not from
transaction, not from money, but from
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