{"product_id":"infrastructures-of-informal-care","title":"Infrastructures Of Informal Care By Peterie, Michelle (t","description":"\u003cp\u003eCare is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining rich empirical analysis and theoretical rigour, the chapters reveal: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• entrenched inequalities in informal care responsibilities and the resources needed to undertake them;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• the intimate relationship between care, exploitation and expropriation, including their frequent embeddedness in colonial power structures; and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• the urgency of reforming, resourcing and valuing informal care at the infrastructural level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvaluable 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57835443028350,"sku":"NW9781447372981","price":64.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/infrastructures-of-informal-care","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}