Infrastructures of Informal Care

Inequality, Exploitation, Emancipation
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7298-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: Transforming Care

Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peterie, Michelle

Kenny, Katherine

Broom, Alex

Ramia, Gaby

Weitere Mitwirkende

Burton, Jala

Cook, Julia

Kelly, Morag

Khorana, Sukhmani

Klein, Elise

Marshall, Amy

Marston, Greg

Mee, Kathleen

Mitchell, Emma

Power, Emma

Robinson, Sally

Silverstein, Jordana

Slater, Lisa

Spies-Butcher, Ben

Valentine, Kylie

Wiesel, Ilan

Conley Wright, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Fachpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Infrastructures of Informal Care – Michelle Peterie, Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom and Gaby Ramia

Part I: Inequalities of Care

1. Researching Care Infrastructures in the Shadows of the Welfare State – Emma Mitchell, Emma R. 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 II: 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 III: 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 Well-Being 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

Über Autor(innen)

Marston, Greg
Greg Marston is Professor in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland, Australia.

Peterie, Michelle
Michelle Peterie is Research Fellow in Sociology at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney.

Khorana, Sukhmani
Sukhmani Khorana is a Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at the Young and Resilient Research Centre, Western Sydney University.

Klein, Elise
Crawford School of Public Policy

Mitchell, Emma
Emma Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urban Geographies of Care in the Institute for Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University.

Michelle Peterie is ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney.

Katherine Kenny is Associate Professor of Sociology, Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and ARC DECRA Principal Research Fellow at The University of Sydney.

Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney.

Gaby Ramia is Professor of Policy and Society and Chair of the Discipline of Government and International Relations at The University of Sydney.