Full Description
Home and care are central aspects of everyday, personal lives, yet they are also shaped by political and economic change. Within a context of austerity, economic restructuring, worsening inequality and resource rationing, the policies and experiences around these key areas are shifting. Taking an interdisciplinary and feminist perspective, this book illustrates how economic and political changes affect everyday lives for many families and households in the UK. Setting out both new empirical material and new conceptual terrain, the authors draw on approaches from human geography, social policy, and feminist and political theory to explore issues of home and care in times of crisis.
Contents
Introduction: the new politics of home ‾ Eleanor Jupp, Sophie Bowlby, Jane Franklin and Sarah Marie Hall;
Home economics: home and care in neoliberal policy ‾ Jane Franklin;
Caring in Domestic Spaces: inequalities and housing ‾ Sophie Bowlby;
Relational biographies in times of austerity: family, home and care ‾ Sarah Marie Hall;
Spaces of Care Beyond the Home: austerity and children's services ‾ Eleanor Jupp;
Conclusion: Opening up the Politics of the Home ‾ Eleanor Jupp, Sophie Bowlby, Jane Franklin and Sarah Marie Hall.
