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THE CARE CRISIS - EMMA DOWLING GEBUNDEN

Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To
really achieve change  we must go further. In this groundbreaking book  Emma Dowling charts the
multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world  from the mantras of self-care and what they
tell us about our anxieties  to the state of the social care system. She examines the relations
of power that play profitability and care off in against one another in a myriad of ways 
exposing the devastating impact of financialisation and austerity. As the world becomes
seemingly more uncaring  the calls for people to be more compassionate and empathetic towards
one another - in short  to care more - become ever-more vocal. The Care Crisis challenges the
idea that people ever stopped caring  but also that the deep and multi-faceted crises of our
time will be solved by a simply (re)instilling the virtues of empathy. There is no easy fix.
The Care Crisis enquires into the ways in which the continued off-loading of the cost of care
onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society  untangling how this off-loading
combines with commodification  marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are
living in. The Care Crisis charts the current experiments in short-term fixes to the care
crisis that are taking place within Britain  with austerity as the backdrop. It maps the
economy of abandonment  raising the question: to whom care is afforded? And what would it mean
to seriously value care?

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