Just Care : Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire / Akemi Nishida.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nishida, Akemi, author.

Series:

D.C.S. (Misc.) (Series)

D/C

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health services accessibility--United States.

Health services accessibility.

People with disabilities--Home care--United States.

People with disabilities.

Home care services--United States.

Home care services.

Community health services--United States.

Community health services.

Social justice--Health aspects.

Social justice.

Caring--Political aspects.

Caring.

Caring--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Just Care examines care as a site where the somatic, the political economy, and intersectional social oppressions manifest and materialize interactively, while it is also a vision and praxis for radically collective and affectionate ways to live and transform society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Needing care and caring needs

Differential debilitation and capacitation: neoliberalization of the US public healthcare

Assemblage

My body pays the price: necropolitics of care

Affective collectivity: beyond slow death and toward haptic relationality

Living interdependency: desiring entanglement in messy dependency

Bed activism: when people of color are sick, disabled, and incapable

Postscript: What about COVID?

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439919910

1439919917