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Blurring the Boundaries of Intimate Relationships: Friendship and Networks of Care in Times of Precarity
Friendship can release intimacy from the normativity imposed by heteronormativity, monomaternalism and mononormativity. In the Mediterranean welfare...
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Why Super Weak Relationships?
How does it actually happen that everyone in the audience at a concert moves their heads in the same rhythm, that of the music? Why do all people...
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Continued Care: Primary Care and Mental Health Care
This chapter covers primary care and mental health care for sex workers in Rhode Island. Interviewees discuss reasons why primary care can be a site...
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Foregrounding Self-Care
Scholarly work on eldercare has centered on caregiving for older family members, and the cultural notions of reciprocity that underlie these care...
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Care That Comes and Goes: Emergency Care and Specialist Care
This chapter looks at sex worker experiences within emergency care settings (emergency departments [EDs], urgent care centers, EMS [emergency medical...
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Community and the Practice of Care
The areas that affect health extend beyond the hospital or clinic. This chapter explores health experiences in the context of community, family, and...
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Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality
Informal care occupies a paradoxical place in contemporary societies. It is at once reified as an inherent social good, and minimised, devalued, and...
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Values-based Self-care: What We Learn from Racialized Activists’ Care Practices
To promote change, activists must first confront the suffering of their communities, but this process can weigh heavily on activists and contribute...
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Reimagining Care
Caring for sex workers can take countless forms within or outside traditional medical settings. This chapter highlights suggestions, thoughts,...
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Theorizing Power, Agents, Structures, and Aid Relationships
This chapter discusses relationships among stakeholders in development aid by expanding on the concepts of power, actors, and the types of...
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Social Work at Home: Dual Relationships
This chapter focuses on rural social workers’ experiences of living and working in the community they serve. It will involve an exploration of the...
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The Human in the Network of Relationships
Networks consist of nodes and edges. Nodes are usually considered to be individuals, but they can also be other social structures, such as...
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Morality and Relationships, Real and Imagined
Scholars increasingly have recognized that moral decision making takes place within relationships. I argue that those relationships are sometimes...
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Performativity and Health and Social Care
This chapter explores Judith Butler’s conception of ‘performativity’ as it is applied to health and social care theory and practice. In light of...
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Care at a Distance
Recent decades have seen significant international labor migration from India, including among nurses. When family members are spread around the...
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Migrant Care Workers in Home-Care Settings in Germany: Inequality Dynamics and Policy Interactions
With the introduction of Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) in 1995, Germany established a universal, family-oriented long-term care system. Within this...
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Relationships with Other Residents, Staff, and Family Members
Relationships substantially impact resident quality of life. Research has indicated that residents value relationships with multiple constituencies....
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The Role of Early Adaptive Schemas in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships
The current study aimed to examine the emerging role of early adaptive schemas within heterosexual romantic relationships. In accordance with schema...
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Old-Age Care in India
The psychosocial and physical well-being of the elderly in India has emerged as one of the most important issues and challenges for the nation. The...
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Gender or Gendered Demand of Care? Migration Decision-Making Processes of Nepali Care Workers
The increasing demand for care workers in the global North has spurred the migration of the care workforce, especially of female nurses from the...