Infrastructures of Informal Care

<P>Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices. </P><P>Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the ‘private’ interpersonal level. </P><P>Combining rich empirical analysis and theoretical rigour, the chapters reveal: </P><P>• entrenched inequalities in informal care responsibilities and the resources needed to undertake them;</P><P>• the intimate relationship between care, exploitation and expropriation, including their frequent embeddedness in colonial power structures; and </P><P>• the urgency of reforming, resourcing and valuing informal care at the infrastructural level.</P><P>Invaluable reading for scholars and students of health and social care and social policy, this book offers a critical framework for reimagining care in the service of more just and equitable societies.</P>