Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire - Brossura

Nishida, Akemi

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1439919909 ISBN 13: 9781439919903

Casa editrice: Temple Univ Pr, 2022

Riassunto

<p><i>Just Care</i> is Akemi Nishida&#8217;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.</p><p>The structure of care, Nishida writes, is deeply embedded in and embodies the cruel social order&#8212;based on disability, race, gender, migration status, and wealth&#8212;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, <i>Just Care </i>looks into lives unfolding in the assemblage of Medicaid long-term care programs, community-based care collectives, and bed activism. <i>Just Care </i>identifies what care does, and asks: Are some people&#8217;s needs more sacred and urgent than others?</p>

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Informazioni sull?autore

<p><b>Akemi Nishida</b> is an Assistant Professor of Disability and Human Development and Gender and Women&#39;s Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the coeditor of <i>Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability</i>.</p>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Temple Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1439919909
• ISBN 13: 9781439919903
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 279
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