Care and the City

Abstract

Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people's everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and practices.This book provides a pathway for urban scholars to start engaging with approaches to conceptualize care in the city through a critical-reflexive analysis of processes of urbanization. It pursues a systematic integration of empirical, methodological, theoretical, and ethical approaches to care in urban studies, while overcoming a crisis-centered reading of care and the related ambivalences in care debates, practices, and spaces. These strands are elaborated via a conceptual framework of care and situated within broader theoretical debates on cities, urbanization, and urban development with detailed case studies from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.By establishing links to various fields of knowledge, this book seeks to systematically introduce debates on care to the interconnecting fields of urban studies, planning theory, and related disciplines for the first time.

Caring for Blue-Green Solutions (BGS) in Everyday Life: An Investigation of Recreational Use, Neighborhood Preferences and Willingness to Pay in Augustenborg, Malmö

“…The notion of care does not necessarily refer to mutual relations between two specific parties; rather it is a relational entity constituted through a multitude of intersecting socio-spatial conditions and actors [31]. Here, care is identified as an experiential dimension of life in the intersection between human and non-human conditions.…”

Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations

“…Debates on the role of care in city‐making during the pandemic mushroomed. For instance, the compilation of the Latin American perspectives on care and its impacts on public policy (Batthyány, 2020, 2021) or the cross‐disciplinary and cross‐regional collection of empirical, methodological and theoretical understandings on the nexus between care and the city (Gabauer et al, 2021). In the pages of this journal, feminist, queer and anti‐racist geographers have contributed to framing current debates on care as well as extending care to its editorial work as a caretaking endeavour (Bailey et al, 2023).…”

“…The pandemic revealed the ambivalences around care and uncare embedded in the urban spaces, discourses and practices (Gabauer et al, 2021). While the measures of containment proclaimed school and workplace closures, stay‐at‐home orders and travel restrictions, the immobility of people became a sort of privilege for those who can afford ‘working from home’.…”

La dimensión espacial del bienestar, los cuidados y la vulnerabilidad

“…La importancia que se concede en este número monográfico a la contribución del ámbito comunitario, vecinal o barrial, a la provisión de cuidados o de bienestar, en general, contrasta con el enfoque que ha sido más común en este terreno, que ha centrado la atención en la realización de los primeros dentro de los hogares, o en el seno de las relaciones familiares. Esta perspectiva enlaza con una pujante literatura, nacional e internacional, que está persiguiendo avanzar en este terreno (Vega et al, 2018;Martínez-Buján y Vega, 2021;Domínguez-Amorós y Solís, 2021;Blokland, 2017Blokland, y 2018Gabuer et al, 2022). Por otra, parte, la aproximación realizada tiene en cuenta el impacto de procesos que se desarrollan también en otras escalas, desde la nacional a la global, pasando por la local o transnacional.…”