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Rethinking Care in a Development Context
Published on 30. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-4443-6153-7 (ISBN)
Description
Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.
* Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the "invisible economy" of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of Africa, Asia and Latin America
* Frames the debate on care and highlights policy experimentation and ideas currently in flux
* Includes new research and data on developing countries, showing how, where care options for the socially disadvantaged are limited, failing to socialize the costs of care exacerbates existing inequalities
* Comes at a moment when, if not yet marked by a generalized care crisis, the world's existing systems are under strain and in need of rethinking
* Features introductory chapters that set out the conceptual framework and findings on individual country studies, and a concluding chapter that draws out the transnational dimensions of care
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Paperback
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
368 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4443-6153-7 (9781444361537)
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03/2012
Wiley-Blackwell
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Person
Shahra Razavi is Senior Researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). She specializes in the gender dimensions of social development, with a particular focus on livelihoods and social policy. Her recent books include The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards "Embedded Liberalism"? (2009) and Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of 'the Social', edited with Shireen Hassim (2006).
Content
Introduction - Rethinking Care in a Development Context: An Introduction (Shahra Razavi)
1. The Good, the Bad and the Confusing: The Political Economy of Social Care Expansion in South Korea (Ito Peng)
2. South Africa: A Legacy of Family Disruption (Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund)
3. Harsh Choices: Chinese Women's Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform (Sarah Cook and Xiao-yuan Dong)
4. A Widening Gap? The Political and Social Organization of Childcare in Argentina (Eleonor Faur)
5. Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context (Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Koen Voorend)
6. A Perfect Storm? Welfare, Care, Gender and Generations in Uruguay (Fernando Filgueira, Magdalena Gutiérrez and Jorge Papadópulos)
7. Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare (Rajni Palriwala and N. Neetha)
8. Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers' Employment and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico (Silke Staab and Roberto Gerhard)
9. Going Global: The Transnationalization of Care (Nicola Yeates)
Index