Full Description
This groundbreaking edited collection examines the 'dark side' of care: social and governance infrastructures that both sustain and undermine care at the interpersonal level. Bridging macro-level critique with the lived realities of care, it offers a critical framework for reimagining care in the service of more just and equitable societies.
Contents
Introduction: Infrastructures of Informal Care - Michelle Peterie, Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom and Gaby Ramia
Part 1: Inequalities of Care
1. Researching Care Infrastructures in the Shadows of the Welfare State - Emma Mitchell, Emma Power, Ilan Wiesel and Kathleen Mee
2. On the Need for New Infrastructures: Practices of Care for Families Multiple - Kylie Valentine, Sally Robinson, Jala Burton and Amy Marshall
3. Understanding Family Financial Assistance with Home Ownership as Private Infrastructure of Care - Julia Cook
4. Formal Care on Informal Time: Australia's Disability Care Infrastructure - Morag Kelly, Michelle Peterie and Alex Broom
Part 2: Care, Exploitation and Expropriation
5. Coloniality and Care - Elise Klein
6. Infrastructures of the Heart: Thinking-Feeling with Non-Innocent Care - Lisa Slater
7. Creating Communities of Statelessness: Testimonies of Belonging and Care - Jordana Silverstein
Part 3: Valuing (Emancipatory) Care
8. Food Security During Covid-19: Manifesting a Migrant Ethics of Care - Sukhmani Khorana
9. Who Cares for the Carer? Formal and Informal Supports for Carer Wellbeing and Identity - Amy Conley Wright
10. Infrastructures of Care, Infrastructures of Governance: Understanding (the Inadequacies of) Care for International Students - Gaby Ramia
11. Exploring the Dynamic Between an Ethic of Care and the Paid Work Ethic in Australian Society - Greg Marston
12. Contesting the Changing Politics of Care - Ben Spies-Butcher
Conclusion: Considering the future of care - Katherine Kenny, Michelle Peterie, Alex Broom and Gaby Ramia
