Although increasingly debated in public, scholarly discourses on care remain frag-mented.
This is not only due to the scientific division of labor, but also to different national research …

This article stems from a constructionist understanding of community care, drawing on the
work of Bytheway and Johnson on the social construction of community care and Heaton's …

In this introduction, and indeed this special section, we explore care as a morally ambiguous
and relationally unstable set of practices. By exploring care over longer temporal frames and …

No longer hidden in the home as a private problem, care and the human services are
increasingly important public concerns in advanced societies. Care is also emerging as a …

We trace how the category of care comes to be constituted historically and in social theory in
ways that privilege the autonomous individual as economic agent and, in the process …

Over the past few decades, geographies of care have flourished, and have offered important
insights into the importance of care in our worlds. This introduction provides a broad review …

In the twenty-first century, characterized by population aging, family fragmentation and the
entry of women into the paid workforce, caring has become a major public issue. This book …

In this introduction we argue that taking a topological approach to care can encourage us to
understand both how caring relations and practices are produced and the forms they take as …

Why is it important to achieve a society that values caring and caring relationships? The
answer might appear obvious: It seems inherent in the definition of a good society that those …

Caregiving remains women's work far more than men's. Although women and men often
attribute this difference to “nature,” this paper argues for the importance of structure …