Spaces of Care

(Paperback)

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The collection examines the ways in which the emerging interdisciplinary study of care provokes a reassessment of the connections and disjuncture between care and governance, ethics, and public, personal and professional identities. Evolving from a project coordinated by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, Spaces of Care brings together leading international scholars to articulate what we may consider to be a useful analytic of care. Lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and criminologists reflect on specific aspects of conceptualising caring relations in spaces. These spaces include: communities of care and abandonment; self-care and kinship care; spaces as gaps in care; the meanings of marketised care; and the ways in which care is constructed and constrained in different ways in venues such as homes, prisons, workplaces and virtual spaces. Common themes include temporality (historical specificity) and the dynamics of care across time and place; subjectivity (including different experiences of care); the economies of care (including the commodification of care; public and private manifestations of care; privatised care); disruptions of care (which generate vulnerabilities with regard to continuities of care); eligibility (those deemed to be deserving and undeserving of care); relationalities of care (collective and individual agency in caring relations, kinship care), and technologies and imaginaries of care (as in new notions of care forged by those in online virtual worlds such as Second Life).

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I found the book amazingly insightful and expansive, providing me with intriguing insights into areas of study and worlds that I have not previously thought to include in studies of care. -- Miriam E David, University College London * Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law *

Author Bio

Loraine Gelsthorpe is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Perveez Mody is a University Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology and a Fellow of Kings College and Brian Sloan is a College Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Robinson College, all at the University of Cambridge.