Caring Out of Crisis:: Policy and Practice for Revaluing the Work That Sustains Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781772586008)

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Caring Out of Crisis:: Policy and Practice for Revaluing the Work That Sustains Life

$29.95

Caring Out of Crisis:: Policy and Practice for Revaluing the Work That Sustains Life

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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We are experiencing a global care crisis that the market will not solve. For decades, feminist activists, economists, and policymakers have strategically made the economic case for care. Yet what we truly seek are ways to care for one another and ourselves while political and systemic violence continues to erode the conditions that support our wellbeing and collective flourishing. This collection brings scholars and policy specialists to the problem of re-valuing a profoundly devalued human and ecological activity. Chapter contributors consider care as a practice rooted in our daily lives, a topic of global and national policy concern, a site of ecological and racial capitalist violence, and a method of feminist pedagogical intervention. Thinking toward caring futures, we return to a simple premise: care work is neither simply a natural inclination nor a personal matter. Our capacity to care, and the quality of the care we receive and provide, is contingent on the political, material, and social conditions of our lives. The authors in this collection build on this recognition by reimagining policy and practice to centre care, offering hope at a time of global instability and crisis

Author: Emily Wolfinger
ISBN-10: 1772586005
ISBN-13: 9781772586008
Publisher: Demeter Press
Language: English
Published: 12/28/2026
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
By Emily Wolfinger
By Emily Wolfinger
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Dr Emily Wolfinger is an Associate Lecturer in Sociology at Western Sydney University, Australia. Her research interrogates institutional and public discourses on sole mothers and critiques the undervaluation of caregiving in late-stage capitalist societies. Informed by her lived experience as the sole mother of three children, including one with a chronic health condition, her scholarship and broader writing advance critical debates on care, equity, and the policy transformations needed to support mothers, caregivers, and more caring social worlds. Dr. Amanda D. Watson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Associate Member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. A mother of two children, she studies social reproduction and explores how people who do disproportionate shares of carework in their families and communities understand their activities and imagine alternative caring relations. She is working on a book about parenting in racial capitalism.

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