Geographies of Care

Abstract

Care in the field of health is widely defined as the provision of practical or emotional support to those who would otherwise be unable to undertake activities of daily life due to physical or mental disability, illness, injury, or an age‐related condition.

The geographies of food banks in the meantime

“…It has become clear that care involves both physical and emotional labour, not least in overcoming the potential destabilization of identity that occurs when sharing spatial proximity with people who potentially invoke a sense of psychological insecurity because of their perceived difference (see Parr and Philo, 2003). As Milligan (2001) contends, variations in coping with this kind of emotional caring work can lead to differences in local contexts and individual performances of care but, at its most productive, the performed ethic of care can be instrumental in developing an expanded, relational and collective vision of the social (McEwan and Goodman, 2010). Despite accounts that equate social volunteering with the self-moralizing and self-gratifying performance of charity (see, for example, Allahyari, 2000) or with an incapacity to move beyond discourses involving the 'sin talk' of personal irresponsibility or the 'sick talk' of pathological otherness (Gowan, 2010), a focus on geographies of care therefore opens up alternative possibilities for conceptualizing food banks as institutional, relational and performative places of practical and emotional work involving practices and cultures of listening and responding to the needs of people in crisis.…”

It Takes Another Kind of Village: How Older Husbands in Rural Spanish Communities Experience Caregiving

“…As I explain later, I interpret care by attending to the multiple spaces in which it is given. This emphasizes the complexity and richness of care settings, while also highlighting the implications of these places on the well-being of cared recipients and their carers (Milligan 2014). Dependency care and rural ageing are configured under these dimensions.…”

Molar and molecular entanglements: Parenting, care and making home in the context of energy capitalism

“…Care can be emplaced, discursive, material, embodied, social and emotional (Conradson, 2003). So, while care can be a routine (Milligan, 2001), it is also gendered (Dunkley, 2009), and an 'event' (Massey, 2005: 130). There are also politics of care; in the context of familial energy arrangements under energy capitalism, if and how care can be and is enacted are just as important as who cares, when and where.…”