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Critical Approaches to Care: Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures

Rogers, Chrissie and Weller, Susie, eds. (2012) Critical Approaches to Care: Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures. Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-61329-3. E-ISBN 978-0-203-11208-3. (doi:10.4324/9780203112083) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:79807)

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Abstract

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. © 2013 Chrissie Rogers and Susie Weller.

Item Type: Edited book
DOI/Identification number: 10.4324/9780203112083
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Tizard
Depositing User: Christine Rogers
Date Deposited: 27 Jan 2020 13:20 UTC
Last Modified: 08 Jan 2024 09:12 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/79807 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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