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Care as Research, Research as Care: Listening at the Margins through the Culture-Centered Approach

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Education Academic Campus - Tampa CR Skill: Career & Self-Development CR Skill: Communication Faculty Graduate Students UNSDG 03: Good Health

Thu, Sep 17, 2026

4 PM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)

ISA 5020

12030 USF Cherry Dr, Tampa, FL 33620, United States

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Join the USF Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows for a lecture and Q&A with Mohan J. Dutta, joining virtually from New Zealand. This event is free to attend and refreshments are provided. This talk positions care as research as fundamentally the labour of learning to listen, a practice that calls for a shift in the orientation of the body—from its outward turn toward the impetus to extract, to an inward turn toward the act of listening that is held accountable to communities.

Drawing on the culture-centered approach, I theorise this reorientation as slow and reciprocal work, learning over time to respond to the calls that emerge from within communities rather than to the demands imposed upon them from outside. Here the devaluation of care and the erasure of subaltern knowledge emerge from the same colonial-capitalist logic, one that trains the researching body to acquire, measure, and take. Research-as-care offers instead a praxis of co-construction that reorganises who is heard, on whose terms, and toward what transformation, reframing care as a mode of knowing, relating, and remaking the structures that render care at once indispensable and disposable.
Food Provided (Publix refreshments)

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ISA 5020

12030 USF Cherry Dr, Tampa, FL 33620, United States

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Mohan J. Dutta

Dean’s Chair Professor of Communication

Massey University of New Zealand

Mohan J. Dutta is Dean’s Chair Professor of Communication at Massey University and Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), where he develops community-led approaches to social change, health justice, and social transformation. His activist scholarship, recognized through more than 30 international awards, works alongside communities at the margins across diverse global spaces to build communicative infrastructures that advance voice, dignity, and collective organizing, rooted in the ethic of care.  

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