Infrastructures of Informal Care - (Transforming Care) by Michelle Peterie & Katherine Kenny & Alex Broom & Gaby Ramia (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This groundbreaking edited collection examines the 'dark side' of care: social and governance infrastructures that both sustain and undermine care at the interpersonal level. Bridging macro-level critique with the lived realities of care, it offers a critical framework for reimagining care in the service of more just and equitable societies.

Review Quotes

"At a time when hostility and contempt have come to play a prominent role in political life, this volume offers a timely intervention. The editors and contributors argue that care - both as a practice and as a value embedded in institutions - is a vital condition for the functioning of societies. With intellectual precision and moral clarity, they show how practices and institutions shaped by histories of coloniality and exclusion can be reimagined as a transformative and just foundation for collective life in the 21st century." Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna

"Infrastructures of Informal Care brings together a range of incisive analysis that reveals the various ways contemporary underlying structures and resources shape, extend, deepen and constrain informal relations of care. The collected volume importantly offers a range of examples, drawing out the significance of social infrastructures that are relational and socio-technical, distilling the depth, complexity and renewal of informal care relations that sustain our social worlds across time." Karen Soldatic, Toronto Metropolitan University

About the Author

Michelle Peterie is ARC DECRA Research Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney.

Katherine Kenny is Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Health Societies and ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney.

Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney.

Gaby Ramia is Professor of Policy and Society within the Discipline of Government and International Relations and Deputy Head (Research) at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney.