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Infrastructures of Informal Care : Inequality, Exploitation, Emancipation.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burton, Jala.
- Series:
- Transforming Care Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- 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:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Infrastructures of informal care
- Introduction
- The complexities of (informal) care
- Informal care through an infrastructural lens
- Infrastructural inequalities
- Exploitative configurations
- Outline of this book
- References
- Part I Inequalities of care
- 1 Researching care infrastructures in the shadows of the welfare state
- Putting a shadow care infrastructures lens into practice
- Attending to the 'shadowed' dimensions of care
- Doing care-full research about shadow care infrastructures
- Orienting interviews to shadow care infrastructures
- Talking through the unnoticed and the unseen
- Disrupting familiar stories of support and survival
- Conclusion
- 2 On the need for new infrastructures: practices of care for families multiple
- Infrastructural standards
- Our research
- Harm when services fail
- The harms of categories and network boundaries
- Resisting categorisation: Mandy and Yvette
- Procedures become problems: Rachel and Eliza
- 3 Understanding family financial assistance with home ownership as private infrastructure of care
- Family financial assistance in the asset economy
- Housing as an infrastructure of care
- Methods
- Care and the purpose of housing: Jacinta and Alina
- Intensive parenting and the transmission of values: Charlotte and Peter
- 4 Formal care on informal time: Australia's disability care infrastructure
- Australia's disability insurance scheme
- Deskilling
- Unpaid articulation work
- Dis/continuities in (informal) care
- Care binds
- Note
- References.
- Part II Care, exploitation and expropriation
- 5 Coloniality and care
- Coloniality, classifications and who gets what care
- Care, coloniality and expropriation
- Care and ontological violence
- Care and decoloniality
- 6 Infrastructures of the heart: thinking-feeling with non-innocent care
- Care
- Relationality
- What can the sensory teach us?
- Notes
- 7 Creating communities of statelessness: testimonies of belonging and care
- Methodology
- Care from the state
- Care from community
- Part III Valuing (emancipatory) care
- 8 Food security during COVID-19: manifesting a migrant ethics of care
- Background: food insecurity, precarity and COVID-19
- Migrant ethics of care, care as infrastructure and informal care
- Case studies: Sydney and Melbourne (Australia)
- New York City (US)
- Conclusion: What is new about migrants enacting care and mobilising care infrastructures?
- 9 Who cares for the carer? Formal and informal supports for carer well-being and identity
- Giving and receiving care
- Carer identity
- Consequences of caring
- Care for carers
- Education and training
- Financial support
- Workplace accommodations
- Mutual aid/peer support
- Psychological interventions
- Respite
- 10 Infrastructures of governance: understanding (the inadequacies of) care for international students
- International students and care
- Care, governance and infrastructures
- Infrastructures in the lives of international students in Australia
- Government policy I: the traditional policy model
- Government policy II: the mass model
- Government policy III: formal regulation.
- Government non-policy: global mobility, social networks and self-regulation
- 11 Exploring the dynamic between an ethic of care and the paid work ethic in Australian society
- Problematising the work-welfare-care nexus
- Conceptualising care in a preferable future
- Moving towards a preferable future
- 12 Contesting the changing politics of care
- The politics of industrial capitalism
- Politics at the intersections of care
- Paid and unpaid care
- Work and welfare
- Public and private finance
- Conclusion: Rethinking the politics of care
- Conclusion: Considering the future of care
- Care as an uneven and exploitative infrastructure
- Care, coloniality and the politics of infrastructure
- Towards emancipatory infrastructures of care
- The future of care
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781447373018
- OCLC:
- 1600230679
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