The Politics of Ailment
A New Approach to Care
1st Edition
Published on 22. July 2022
Book
Hardback
134 pages
978-1-4473-4347-9 (ISBN)
Description
Deficiencies in old age care are some of the most pressing human rights concerns in mature welfare states.
This book radically challenges the ethics of viewing care as a tradeable commodity and introduces a novel framework for understanding and analysing social care through the concept of ailment. Providing examples from the British and Finnish welfare states, it demonstrates how ailment shapes societies from the micro to the macro level. Addressing the marketisation and financialisation of care, the authors bring to light increasing inequalities in care.
This book argues that ailment is part of human life and society, and therefore the politics of care should begin with a politics of ailment.
This book radically challenges the ethics of viewing care as a tradeable commodity and introduces a novel framework for understanding and analysing social care through the concept of ailment. Providing examples from the British and Finnish welfare states, it demonstrates how ailment shapes societies from the micro to the macro level. Addressing the marketisation and financialisation of care, the authors bring to light increasing inequalities in care.
This book argues that ailment is part of human life and society, and therefore the politics of care should begin with a politics of ailment.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
263 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-4347-9 (9781447343479)
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Persons
Viva Collective is composed of social policy researchers, sociologists and political theorists passionate about developing novel understandings of care and inequality. The collective was established in 2013 and is based in Finnish universities and research institutes.
Minna Zechner is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki.
Lena Naere is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki.
Olli Karsio is Project Researcher at the University of Jyvaeskylae.
Antero Olakivi is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki.
Liina Sointu is University Instructor at Tampere University.
Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania is Lecturer at the National University of Ireland Galway.
Tiina Vaittinen is University Researcher at Tampere University.
Minna Zechner is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki.
Lena Naere is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki.
Olli Karsio is Project Researcher at the University of Jyvaeskylae.
Antero Olakivi is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki.
Liina Sointu is University Instructor at Tampere University.
Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania is Lecturer at the National University of Ireland Galway.
Tiina Vaittinen is University Researcher at Tampere University.
Content
1. Introduction: Humans as ailing beings
2. Tracing ailment in social and care policies
3. Profit making and ailment: the marketisation and financialisation of care
4. Ailment in caring encounters and divisions of care labour
5. The politics of ailment
2. Tracing ailment in social and care policies
3. Profit making and ailment: the marketisation and financialisation of care
4. Ailment in caring encounters and divisions of care labour
5. The politics of ailment