Introduction: the critical significance of care

Barnes, Marian; Brannelly, Tula; Ward, Lizzie; Ward, Nicki

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“…These scholars have contested the problematisation of physical, social and economic dependency in (neo)liberal theory, arguing that ideals of autonomy and self sufficiency are modelled on the lives of white, middle class, middle aged, able-bodied men. They approach care as an interdependent relation and situate care as a social responsibility (Barnes et al, 2015;Feder Kittay & Feder, 2002;Weicht, 2010). In this paper I situate social housing in interdependent relations and practices of care within Yol˛u families and between citizens and states.…”

Section: Conceptualising Care As An Interdependent Practice and Relatmentioning

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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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Section: Conceptualising Care As An Interdependent Practice and Relatmentioning

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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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“…Care ethics is political, because it centrals the critical evaluation of care. Not all care is morally good, and care ethicists have developed ideas on what good caring means (Barnes et al, 2015). Tronto (2012), for instance, has specified that good caring implies intersubjectivity; good care is the outcome of a dialogic process between caregiver and care-receiver, and cannot be decided upon for someone.…”

Section: Care Ethics: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics

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Recently, several authors have called for a critical assessment of the normative dimensions of evaluation practice. This article responds to this call by demonstrating how evaluation practice can be enriched through deliberate engagement with care ethics. Care ethics has a relational and practice view of morality and places caring relationships and responsibilities at the forefront of our being in the world. We will demonstrate how care ethics, in particular Joan Tronto’s moral-political theory of democratic caring, can help evaluators to reshape our way of working by placing caring and relationality at the centre of our evaluative work. Care ethics as a normative orientation for evaluation stretches beyond professional codes of conduct, and rule- or principled-based behaviour. It is part of everything we do or not do, how we interact with others, and what kinds of relationships we forge in our practice. This is illustrated with two examples: a democratic evaluation of a programme for refugee children in Sweden; and a responsive evaluation of a programme for neighbours of people with an intellectual disability in The Netherlands. Both examples show that a caring ethos offers a promising pathway to address the larger political, public issues of our times through the interrogation of un-caring practices. We conclude a caring ethos can help evaluators to strengthen a caring society that builds on people’s deeply felt need to care, to relate, and to connect within and across communities.

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“…First, researchers examining the implementation of personalisation of welfare argue it contains significant limitations in its capacity to improve the lives of disabled people (Beatty and Fothergill, 2015; Rummery, 2009, 2011). This is because it has increasingly become embedded in an individual liberal consumerist logic, disregarding societal factors in the production of disability (Barnes et al, 2015; Reeves and Loopstra, 2017). Some disability movement advocates do acknowledge that their rejection of collective welfare provision, and their argument that a benefit of individuals gaining direct control is that it is cheaper, has provided legitimacy to government policies of withdrawing or reducing welfare provision.…”

Section: Disability and Feminist Debates On Carementioning

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Valuing Care and Support in an Era of Celebrating Independence: Disabled Young People’s Reflections on Their Meaning and Role in Their Lives

McLaughlin

2019

Sociology

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The right to a supported independent life is a central dimension to disability politics. This focus has been used to challenge institutionalised living and the exclusion of disabled people from areas such as education and employment. The importance given to independence has also led to a critique of care. This critique has been a point of contention between disability studies and feminist theorising. In this article I argue it is important to return to these debates because contemporary conditions mean advocacy of independence is being co-opted into rhetorics of self-sufficiency. At the same time care on its own does not offer a productive alternative. The article draws from an ESRC project undertaken with disabled young people to advocate for the importance of both supported independence and of support being caring. It concludes by arguing that an expansive welfare state is required to create the conditions that can make that possible.

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Introduction: the critical significance of care

Cited by 8 publications

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

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

Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics

Valuing Care and Support in an Era of Celebrating Independence: Disabled Young People’s Reflections on Their Meaning and Role in Their Lives

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