The Care Crisis - Emma Dowling

The Care Crisis

What Caused It and How Can We End It?

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Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2021
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-78663-034-6 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
What does care mean? who exactly is paying for the Global Financial Crisis in term of care?
Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further.

In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of the social care system. She examines the relations of power that play profitability and care off in against one another in a myriad of ways, exposing the devastating impact of financialisation and austerity.

As the world becomes seemingly more uncaring, the calls for people to be more compassionate and empathetic towards one another - in short, to care more - become ever-more vocal. The Care Crisis challenges the idea that people ever stopped caring, but also that the deep and multi-faceted crises of our time will be solved by a simply (re)instilling the virtues of empathy. There is no easy fix.

The Care Crisis enquires into the ways in which the continued off-loading of the cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification, marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. The Care Crisis charts the current experiments in short-term fixes to the care crisis that are taking place within Britain, with austerity as the backdrop. It maps the economy of abandonment, raising the question: to whom care is afforded? And what would it mean to seriously value care?

Emma Dowling teaches at the University of Vienna. She has written for the Financial Times, New Humanist, Red Pepper, LuXemburg and OpenDemocracy.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Gewicht 347 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78663-034-6 / 1786630346
ISBN-13 978-1-78663-034-6 / 9781786630346
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