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A radical imagination for nursing: Generative insurrection, creative resistance
1Department of Physiological and Technological Nursing, Augusta University College of Nursing, Augusta, Georgia, USA.
Summary
Nursing requires a radical imagination to ensure its future relevance. This involves embracing speculative visions, reparatory history, mutual aid, and abolition to foster creative resistance and deeper connections within the discipline.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Science
- Social Sciences
- Critical Theory
Background:
- The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for nursing to adapt and evolve.
- Nursing's historical foundations are rooted in normative whiteness, necessitating critical examination.
- Existing capitalist healthcare structures limit the discipline's potential.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the imperative for cultivating a radical imagination within nursing.
- To envision speculative futures for nursing practice and theory.
- To identify pathways for generative insurrection and creative resistance in nursing.
Main Methods:
- Drawing on diverse theoretical frameworks including anarchist, abolitionist, posthuman, Black feminist, and new materialist thought.
- Analyzing the significance of reparatory history in nursing.
- Examining the potential shift from a capitalist healthcare model to one based on mutual aid and abolition.
Main Results:
- A radical imagination is essential for nursing's survival and relevance.
- Integrating reparatory history can address the discipline's foundational issues.
- Transitioning to mutual aid and abolition offers a transformative framework for healthcare.
Conclusions:
- Cultivating a radical imagination, informed by reparatory history, mutual aid, and abolition, can dismantle restrictive structures in nursing.
- This approach fosters creative resistance and enables the possibility of genuine kinship within the nursing discipline.
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