The collection examines the ways in which the emerging interdisciplinary study of care provokes a reassessment of the connections and disjuncture between care and governance, ethics, and public, personal and professional identities.
Evolving from a project coordinated by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, Spaces of Care brings together leading international scholars to articulate what we may consider to be a useful analytic of care. Lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and criminologists reflect on specific aspects of conceptualising caring relations in ‘spaces’. These spaces include: communities of care and abandonment; self-care and kinship care; spaces as ‘gaps’ in care; the meanings of marketised care; and the ways in which care is constructed and constrained in different ways in venues such as homes, prisons, workplaces and virtual spaces.
Common themes include temporality (historical specificity) and the dynamics of care across time and place; subjectivity (including different experiences of care); the economies of care (including the commodification of care; public and private manifestations of care; privatised ‘care’); disruptions of care (which generate vulnerabilities with regard to continuities of care); eligibility (those deemed to be deserving and undeserving of care); relationalities of care (collective and individual agency in caring relations, kinship care), and technologies and imaginaries of care (as in new notions of care forged by those in online virtual worlds such as Second Life).
1. Introduction: Spaces of Care: Concepts, Configurations, and Challenges Loraine Gelsthorpe, Perveez Mody and Brian Sloan 2. Punishment and Care Reappraised Rob Canton and Jane Dominey 3. Who Cares? Probation Practice and Privatisation Jane Dominey and Loraine Gelsthorpe 4. Paradoxes of Care: Women in the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales Loraine Gelsthorpe and Rob Canton 5. ‘All Children are Our Children’: Care and Kinship in Residential Children’s Homes in the Russian Federation Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill 6. Re-imagining Cities as Spaces of Care – A Perspective from Street Homelessness Helen Carr, Ed Kirton-Darling and Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês 7. Formal and Informal Care in the Public and Private Spheres in England and Australia Brian Sloan 8. Care and the Workplace: The Dutch Approach to Part-time Work, Flexible Working Arrangements and Leave Susanne Burri 9. Ethics of Care and Disability Rights: Complementary or Contradictory? Jonathan Herring 10. Kinship Care Perveez Mody 11. Home and Away: Mobility and Care in Botswana’s Time of AIDS Koreen M Reece 12. Witnessing, Containing, Holding? Th e German Social Welfare State (Sozialstaat) and People in Flight John Borneman 13. The Ability of Place: Digital Topographies of the Virtual Human on Ethnographia Island Tom Boellstorff
Loraine Gelsthorpe is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Perveez Mody is a University Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology and a Fellow of King’s College and Brian Sloan is a College Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Robinson College, all at the University of Cambridge.
Reviews for Spaces of Care
I found the book amazingly insightful and expansive, providing me with intriguing insights into areas of study and worlds that I have not previously thought to include in studies of care. -- Miriam E David, University College London * Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law *
