Housing: an infrastructure of care

Power, Emma R.; Mee, Kathleen

doi:10.1080/02673037.2019.1612038

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“…The state's response co-exists with home-based care networks and grassroots communication systems in a hybrid, the complexion and complexity of which is determined by spatial and socio-economic parameters. Whilst there is literature on the performativities of care within the home (see Power & Mee, 2020), where the domestic home is taken as the central location for care work, the broader articulation with social systems is less pronounced. This paper explores the notion of "infrastructure of care" from the outside, in, from outside the home.…”

Section: The Hybrid Pandemic Smart Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing an “infrastructure of care” – understanding the institutional remnants and socio-technical practices that constitute South Africa’s Covid-19 response

Odendaal

2020

Urban Geography

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The WHO recently praised the South African state's urgent response to the Covid-19 crisis. It has promoted ascience-led response coupled with financial mechanisms to offset economic hardship. The decisive approach taken by the state, however, contradicts the heterogeneity of livelihoods that define the functioning of its socioeconomic fringes. This paper focuses on acommunity-led initiative, connecting neighborhoods through relations of care. Focusing on this third mode of existence gives insight into the limited reach and efficacy of the data strategies, policies and legislative adaptations that make up the first mode: the state-led response to the pandemic. It also reveals the interrelationships between all three modes, that could potentially contribute to an "infrastructure of care", illustrating the diversity yet contextual embeddedness of the elements of progressive socio-technical change.

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Section: The Hybrid Pandemic Smart Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing an “infrastructure of care” – understanding the institutional remnants and socio-technical practices that constitute South Africa’s Covid-19 response

Odendaal

2020

Urban Geography

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“…Anthropologists have often approached housing and practices of dwelling as a mode of social organisation through which residents' responsibilities to one another are established (Alexander et al, 2018;Silverstein, 2004). Housing patterns the social and economic organisation of care work and is deployed in its governance (Mee, 2009;Power & Mee, 2020). Care practices may be governed through housing to produce particular kinds of citizens, communities and nations (Alexander et al, 2018).…”

Section: Approaching Housing As a Site And Resource Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Housing represents a locus of practices of sheltering, dwelling, belonging and care essential for human flourishing. While connections between housing and physical health are well established through housing research and in housing policy frameworks (Taylor, 2018), the broader functions of places of residence as sites and resources of care have been comparatively neglected (Power & Mee, 2020). Attending to how housing is instrumentalised in practices and relations of care, and how relations and practices of care are implicated in housing policy frameworks, can furnish our understanding of housing policy frameworks with new insights.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A politics of care in urban public housing: housing precarity amongst Yolŋu renal patients in Darwin

Puszka

2020

Housing Studies

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People with chronic diseases are likely to require some form of domestic care, however their care needs acquire low visibility in housing policy frameworks. Amongst Yol˛u (Indigenous Australians from northeast Arnhem Land), high rates of kidney disease reinforce needs for housing and care. I consider how access to housing shapes relations and practices of care in the families of Yol˛u renal patients in Darwin, Australia; and how Yol˛u relations and practices of care are implicated in housing policy. Through an ethnographic case study approach, I show that in Yol˛u families, practices of extending shelter to kin are care practices fundamental to the performance of domestic labour. I argue that while housing policy frameworks rely on familial relations and practices of care to reduce rough sleeping and achieve other policy objectives, Yol˛u relations and practices of care are also marginalised through the governance of public housing. The politics of care that play out in their places of residence reproduce housing precarity.

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“…Similarly, for Jacobs & Smith (2008) such approaches offer a 'revised rematerialisation of home', opening 'the black boxes of economy to scrutiny' while interrogating how the emotional terrains of home are 'inextricably tangled with the material, economic territory' of housing. Smith's relational housing research is similarly engaged with a critique of the normative philosophies and inequalities that define contemporary housing regimes (Jacobs & Smith, 2008;Lovell & Smith, 2010;Smith, 2015), while more recently Power (2019) and Power & Mee (2020) mobilize relational approaches to critique the individualizing of care responsibility through housing. In opening the black-boxes of housing, relational approaches offer a view into the 'lifeworld of structure' (Berlant, 2016, p. 393), the dynamic practices and forms that organize and make up housing systems and the practices of dwelling.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%