Critical approaches to care : understanding caring relations, identities and cultures / / edited by Chrissie Rogers and Susie Weller

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 362/.0425
• Soggetto topico: Caregivers; Families; Helping behavior; Interpersonal relations; Responsibility; Social networks; Social service; Women - Family relationships
• Altri autori: RogersChrissie WellerSusie
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Endorsements; 1 Understanding care and thinking with care; PART I Caring within educational institutions; Part I Summary: caring within educational institutions; 2 Reclaiming care in early childhood education and care; 3 Revisiting care in schools: exploring the caring experiences of disengaged young people; 4 At risk pupils and the 'caring' curriculum; 5 A discourse analytic study of power as caring relations in Philippine university classrooms; PART II Caring amongst communities and networks ; Part II Summary: caring amongst communities and networks6 A different way of caring? An exploration of alternative health care relationships; 7 'Men's business'? Black men's caring within black-led community organisations; 8 Tea and Tupperware: mommy blogging as care, work, and consumption; 9 Researching 'care', family and neighbourhood in Tehran, Iran; PART III Caring for and about families; Part III Summary: caring for and about families; 10 Foster care in ambiguous contexts: competing understandings of care ; 11 Intellectual disability and mothering: an engagement with ethics of care and emotional work12 Working at post-divorce family life: the feminist ethics of care as a framework for exploring fathering after divorce or separation; PART IV Caring across the life course; Part IV Summary: caring across the life course; 13 Who cares? Exploring the shifting nature of care and caring practices in sibling relationships; 14 Care arrangements of transnational migrant elders: between family, community and the state; 15 Caring after death: issues of embodiment and relationality; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What does 'care' mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and collectives draw upon in order to care for, care with and care about themselves and others? How do such relationships and practices relate to broader social processes? Care shapes people's everyday lives and relationships and caring relations and practices influence the economies of different societies. This interdisciplinary book takes a nuanced and context-sensitive approach to exploring caring relationships, identities and practices within
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical approaches to care
• ISBN: 1-136-28093-6; 1-283-60606-2; 9786613918512; 1-136-28094-4; 0-203-11208-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785896003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Relationships and resources.