Politics of Ailment A New Approach to Care
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Viva Collective is composed of social policy researchers, sociologists and political theorists passionate about developing novel understandings of care and inequality. The collective was established in 2013 and is based in Finnish universities and research institutes.
Minna Zechner is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki.
Lena Näre is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki.
Olli Karsio is Project Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä.
Antero Olakivi is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki.
Liina Sointu is University Instructor at Tampere University.
Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania is Lecturer at the National University of Ireland Galway.
Tiina Vaittinen is University Researcher at Tampere University.
Deficiencies in old age care are some of the most pressing human rights concerns in mature welfare states.
This book radically challenges the ethics of viewing care as a tradeable commodity and introduces a novel framework for understanding and analysing social care through the concept of ailment. Providing examples from the British and Finnish welfare states, it demonstrates how ailment shapes societies from the micro to the macro level. Addressing the marketisation and financialisation of care, the authors bring to light increasing inequalities in care.
This book argues that ailment is part of human life and society, and therefore the politics of care should begin with a politics of ailment.
1. Introduction: Humans as ailing beings
2. Tracing ailment in social and care policies
3. Profit making and ailment: the marketisation and financialisation of care
4. Ailment in caring encounters and divisions of care labour
5. The politics of ailment
Based on a successful Finnish book which sold 700 copies in the first year, this book will include additional UK case studies as well as the original Finnish research;
Analysing the implications of present policies and practices in old-age care, this book challenges current care policies which are geared towards the needs of the ideal liberal individual and thus disregard frailty and vulnerability;
Presents an alternative to the ethics of treating care as a tradable commodity, addresses the unsaid and overlooked realities of care, and offers tools to defend the right to care.
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Viva Collective is composed of social policy researchers, sociologists and political theorists passionate about developing novel understandings of care and inequality. The collective was established in 2013 and is based in Finnish universities and research institutes.
Minna Zechner is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki.
Lena Näre is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki.
Olli Karsio is Project Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä.
Antero Olakivi is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki.
Liina Sointu is University Instructor at Tampere University.
Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania is Lecturer at the National University of Ireland Galway.
Tiina Vaittinen is University Researcher at Tampere University.