{"product_id":"infrastructures-of-informal-care-9781447372981","title":"Infrastructures of Informal Care","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\u003e\nTaking 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\u003e\nCombining rich empirical analysis and theoretical rigour, the chapters reveal: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n• entrenched inequalities in informal care responsibilities and the resources needed to undertake them;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n• the intimate relationship between care, exploitation and expropriation, including their frequent embeddedness in colonial power structures; and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n• the urgency of reforming, resourcing and valuing informal care at the infrastructural level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nInvaluable 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":"Jala Burton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280944935163,"sku":"9781447372981","price":127.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_06838423-21e0-401d-859f-70a57deddfcd.jpg?v=1780521977","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/infrastructures-of-informal-care-9781447372981","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}