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<p>This article argues that a largely disengaged postmodern citizenship praxis is responsible for the contemporary ‘crisis of care’. It posits a participatory citizenship praxis grounded in what I term the palliative imaginary, to regenerate polities where the care crisis is destroying the <i>oikos</i>, or the household, the private sphere structures on which all life depends. Citizenship grounded in the palliative imaginary of the private sphere reconceives and refines the ancient androcentric citizenship virtues of honor, honesty, and friendship formerly the province only of the public sphere. Palliative care praxis, advocacy, and discourses challenge the well documented contemporary crises of care characterized by a neoliberal gaze that treats public sphere abandonment the poor, older persons, the seriously ill, and individuals living with disabilities and mental health disorders, as negative externalities. While the dominant rationality consigns such ‘ungrievable’ lives in Judith Butler’s memorable formulation, to the rubbish heap, the palliative care imaginary seeks to retrieve citizenship practices that incorporate lamentation and relief of preventable suffering to regenerate the latent life force in modernity’s trauma-damaged polities.</p>

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The Palliative Gaze: Reimagining Late Modern Citizenship Through a Palliative Ethics of Care

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    2026年5月20日

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  • Katherine Irene Pettus

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This article argues that a largely disengaged postmodern citizenship praxis is responsible for the contemporary ‘crisis of care’. It posits a participatory citizenship praxis grounded in what I term the palliative imaginary, to regenerate polities where the care crisis is destroying the oikos, or the household, the private sphere structures on which all life depends. Citizenship grounded in the palliative imaginary of the private sphere reconceives and refines the ancient androcentric citizenship virtues of honor, honesty, and friendship formerly the province only of the public sphere. Palliative care praxis, advocacy, and discourses challenge the well documented contemporary crises of care characterized by a neoliberal gaze that treats public sphere abandonment the poor, older persons, the seriously ill, and individuals living with disabilities and mental health disorders, as negative externalities. While the dominant rationality consigns such ‘ungrievable’ lives in Judith Butler’s memorable formulation, to the rubbish heap, the palliative care imaginary seeks to retrieve citizenship practices that incorporate lamentation and relief of preventable suffering to regenerate the latent life force in modernity’s trauma-damaged polities.