| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) |
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Dis/color |
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Dis/color.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Needing care and caring needs -- 1. Differential debilitation and capacitation: neoliberalization of the US public healthcare Assemblage -- 2. My body pays the price: necropolitics of care -- 3. Affective collectivity: beyond slow death and toward haptic relationality -- 4. Living interdependency: desiring entanglement in messy dependency -- 5. Bed activism: when people of color are sick, disabled, and incapable -- Postscript: What about COVID? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Just Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers, receivers, or both. Also illuminated is how people with disabilities come together to assemble community care collectives and bed activism (resistance and visions emerging from the space of bed) to reimagine care as a key element for social change. The structure of care, Nishida writes, is deeply embedded in and embodies the cruel social order--based on disability, race, gender, migration status, and wealth--that determines who survives or deteriorates. Simultaneously, many marginalized communities treat care as the foundation of activism. Using interviews, focus groups, and participant observation with care workers and people with disabilities, Just Care looks into lives unfolding in the assemblage of Medicaid long-term care programs, community-based care collectives, and bed activism. Just Care identifies what care does, and asks: How can we activate care justice or just care where people feel cared affirmatively and care being used for the wellbeing of community and for just world making?" -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2022) |
| Subject |
Health services accessibility -- United States
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People with disabilities -- Home care -- United States
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Home care services -- United States
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Community health services -- United States
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Social justice -- Health aspects
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Caring -- Political aspects
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Caring -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Caring -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Community health services
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Health services accessibility
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Home care services
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People with disabilities -- Home care
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021059337 |
| ISBN |
1439919917 |
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9781439919910 |
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