Critical Approaches to Care

Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures

• Author(s): Chrissie Rogers, Susie Weller,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 240
• ISBN_10: 1136280936
  ISBN_13: 9781136280931
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects , Family & Relationships / General , Medical / Allied Health Services / General , Medical / Health Care Delivery , Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family , Medical / Mental Health , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , Education / Aims & Objectives , History / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

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What does ‘care’ mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and collectives draw upon in order to care for, care with and care about themselves and others? How do such relationships and practices relate to broader social processes?

Care shapes people’s everyday lives and relationships and caring relations and practices influence the economies of different societies. This interdisciplinary book takes a nuanced and context-sensitive approach to exploring caring relationships, identities and practices within and across a variety of cultural, familial, geographical and institutional arenas. Grounded in rich empirical research and discussing key theoretical, policy and practice debates, it provides important, yet often neglected, international and cross-cultural perspectives. It is divided into four sections covering: caring within educational institutions; caring amongst communities and networks; caring and families; and caring across the life-course.

Contributing to broader theoretical, philosophical and moral debates associated with the ethics of care, citizenship, justice, relationality and entanglements of power, Critical Approaches to Care is an important work for students and academics studying caring and care work in the fields of health and social care, sociology, social policy, anthropology, education, human geography and politics.