Just Care - Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire (Paperback)

Just Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers, receivers, or both. Also illuminated is how people with disabilities come together to assemble community care collectives and bed activism (resistance and visions emerging from the space of bed) to reimagine care as a key element for social change. The structure of care, Nishida writes, is deeply embedded in and embodies the cruel social order-based on disability, race, gender, migration status, and wealth-that determines who survives or deteriorates. Simultaneously, many marginalized communities treat care as the foundation of activism. Using interviews, focus groups, and participant observation with care workers and people with disabilities, Just Care looks into lives unfolding in the assemblage of Medicaid long-term care programs, community-based care collectives, and bed activism. Just Care identifies what care does, and asks: How can we activate care justice or just care where people feel cared affirmatively and care being used for the wellbeing of community and for just world making?

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	D/C: Dis/color
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Akemi Nishida
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	279
ISBN-13:	978-1-4399-1990-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > Community nursing Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Popular medicine > General Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Nursing
LSN:	1-4399-1990-9
Barcode:	9781439919903

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