Full Description
Care is fundamental to our individual and collective wellbeing, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.
Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the 'private' interpersonal level.
Combining rich empirical analysis and theoretical rigour, the chapters reveal:
• entrenched inequalities in informal care responsibilities and the resources needed to undertake them;
• the intimate relationship between care, exploitation and expropriation, including their frequent embeddedness in colonial power structures; and
• the urgency of reforming, resourcing and valuing informal care at the infrastructural level.
Invaluable reading for scholars and students of health and social care and social policy, this book 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 and Michelle Peterie
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 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
