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Self-care and spiritual wellbeing practices are increasingly shaped by neoliberal ideals of productivity. Yet when enacted as forms of radical self-love and self-recovery, they can also operate as sites of resistance. The webinar explores this tension through an ethnographic study of womb yoga, a women-centred alternative therapy developed in the UK.

Prof. Carine Plancke is Guest Professor in Gender and Diversity Studies and directs the Centre for Research on Culture & Gender at Ghent University. She holds a MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (KU Leuven), a postgraduate in Women's Studies (University of Antwerp.) and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris / KU Leuven.) She worked as a teaching and research fellow at the universities of Nice and Clermont-Ferrand, as a Fernand Braudel and a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Roehampton and as a FWO postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. Her research areas are anthropology, gender, body practices, dance, performance, yoga, tantra, affect, ritual and creativity, contemporary spirituality, Central Africa, Western Europe.

This webinar is the first in 2026 webinar series "Care in Academia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" , organized by the GRACE-ETN: Globalization, Religion and Culture Educational Thematic Network.

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