Emma Dowling: The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?

Emma Dowling: The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?

What is care and who is paying for it?Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care workmore monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go so muchfurther.As the world becomes seemingly more uncaring, the calls for people to bemore compassionate and empathetic towards one another—in short, tocare more—become ever-more vocal. The Care Crisis challenges the ideathat people ever stopped caring, but also that the deep and multi-facetedcrises of our time will be solved by simply (re)instilling the virtues ofempathy. There is no easy fix.In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-facetednature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and whatthey tell us about our anxieties, to the state of the social care system. Sheexamines the relations of power that play profitability and care off inagainst one another in a myriad of ways, exposing the devastating impactof financialisation and austerity.The Care Crisis enquires into the ways in which the continued off-loading ofthe cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms ofsociety, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification,marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. TheCare Crisis charts the current experiments in short-term fixes to the carecrisis that are taking place within Britain, with austerity as the backdrop. Itmaps the economy of abandonment, raising the question: to whom care isafforded? What would it mean to seriously value care?

Butková, Tereza

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 4 (2021); 161-168

2788-2993

2788-2985

Institute of International Relations Prague

2021-12-01

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

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