Akemi Nishida is an Assistant Professor of Disability and Human Development and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the coeditor of Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability.

"Nishida offers an innovative and eloquent examination of the multiplicity of care-care as a tool of surveillance and oppression, a commodity, a relational act that builds embodied knowledge and connection, and a revolutionary act that fundamentally challenges the violent degradation of certain bodies.... Just Care is profound in its criticism of the neoliberal U.S. care industrial complex and in its commitment to envisioning just systems of care that respect crip wisdom and value all lives. It offers a deeply personal, political, and poignant contribution to care studies.... Just Care is an important work that will fundamentally reshape conversations about care in American society. It is highly relevant to scholars and activists in the fields of disability studies, care, welfare, health, justice, feminist scholarship, and critical race analysis."-Social Forces "Nishida asks a number of urgent questions, including how our society and the regimes of governance operating in it determine whose needs are sacred and whose lives are disposable, whose needs are met and whose are ignored, and how caretaking happens (and does not happen) in our society.... Nishida’s book captures that dilemma between oppressive care assemblages and liberatory care collectives, access to care and control by the agencies of care, exploitation of care workers alongside their vital work, the capacity for self-definition and resistance in the context of a decapacitating society-the tension between and agency and constraint-in every situation she describes."-Wordgathering "Just Care is the kind of book that you want to return to, with content that is critically important for advancing our collective thinking around care. But there’s also the book itself. Nishida utilizes each of her 264 pages and five chapters as representative of her disability justice praxis. The care put into the text models the 'just care' that the book itself discusses."-Gender and Society "[A] nuanced analysis of the circulation of care within the U.S. neoliberal, neocolonial healthcare assemblage.... For teachers of critical qualitative research, disability or healthcare, or intersectional analyses, Just Care will be an excellent aid. For scholars and activists of various social movements for collective liberation, Just Care will nuance and oxygenate your analyses, commitments, and imagination."-Psychology of Women Quarterly "Overall, this must-read disability justice text is transformative and ingenious. It has so much to offer the existing bodies of knowledge within healthcare, healthcare policy, disability studies, activist spaces, and conceptualizations of disability and care. Just Care positions care as a dialectical tool of social control, oppression, resistance, and liberation. Nishida’s indispensable interdisciplinary background in disability studies...and feminist studies...and her positionality as a disabled woman of color enrich her analysis of care which illustrates shared experiences of exploitation and oppression in care practice and extends visions of radically liberated futures for all."-Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies "Grounded in disability justice, Just Care deftly draws from critical race, feminist, anticolonial, and queer studies to untangle the racist, cisheteropatriarchal, neocolonial, and ableist logics that have historically categorized people as care workers or care receivers.... Not only [is] the book an excellent encapsulation of key concepts from feminist-of-color disability studies, but it also [presents] an opportunity for students to reflect on care in the classroom and in their communities."-Resources for Gender and Women's Studies"Just Care is Nishida’s timely reminder to scholars, students, and organizers that neither care nor justice can be constructively practiced in isolation. Across five, highly accessible body chapters of storied prose and interview-based research with disabled people and their care workers, Nishida illustrates that if we want to practice just care, as in care justice, then we first need to recognize the justness of care.... Nishida thoughtfully engages conversations in disability studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, and queer studies to argue that no justice worth pursuing is possible without systems of care that both ensure people’s needs are met and interrogate the forces that exacerbate these needs beyond our collective capacity to address them."-Catalyst "Just Care is the first book someone who wishes to learn about care in the U.S. should read. It is long overdue, a major and timely exploration.... Nishida’s approach is groundbreaking because it both investigates and accounts for the perspectival differences between caregivers and care recipients.... [O]utstanding.”-Modern Fiction Studies

Akemi Nishida is an Assistant Professor of Disability and Human Development and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the coeditor of Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability.

"Nishida offers an innovative and eloquent examination of the multiplicity of care-care as a tool of surveillance and oppression, a commodity, a relational act that builds embodied knowledge and connection, and a revolutionary act that fundamentally challenges the violent degradation of certain bodies.... Just Care is profound in its criticism of the neoliberal U.S. care industrial complex and in its commitment to envisioning just systems of care that respect crip wisdom and value all lives. It offers a deeply personal, political, and poignant contribution to care studies.... Just Care is an important work that will fundamentally reshape conversations about care in American society. It is highly relevant to scholars and activists in the fields of disability studies, care, welfare, health, justice, feminist scholarship, and critical race analysis."-Social Forces "Nishida asks a number of urgent questions, including how our society and the regimes of governance operating in it determine whose needs are sacred and whose lives are disposable, whose needs are met and whose are ignored, and how caretaking happens (and does not happen) in our society.... Nishida’s book captures that dilemma between oppressive care assemblages and liberatory care collectives, access to care and control by the agencies of care, exploitation of care workers alongside their vital work, the capacity for self-definition and resistance in the context of a decapacitating society-the tension between and agency and constraint-in every situation she describes."-Wordgathering "Just Care is the kind of book that you want to return to, with content that is critically important for advancing our collective thinking around care. But there’s also the book itself. Nishida utilizes each of her 264 pages and five chapters as representative of her disability justice praxis. The care put into the text models the 'just care' that the book itself discusses."-Gender and Society "[A] nuanced analysis of the circulation of care within the U.S. neoliberal, neocolonial healthcare assemblage.... For teachers of critical qualitative research, disability or healthcare, or intersectional analyses, Just Care will be an excellent aid. For scholars and activists of various social movements for collective liberation, Just Care will nuance and oxygenate your analyses, commitments, and imagination."-Psychology of Women Quarterly "Overall, this must-read disability justice text is transformative and ingenious. It has so much to offer the existing bodies of knowledge within healthcare, healthcare policy, disability studies, activist spaces, and conceptualizations of disability and care. Just Care positions care as a dialectical tool of social control, oppression, resistance, and liberation. Nishida’s indispensable interdisciplinary background in disability studies...and feminist studies...and her positionality as a disabled woman of color enrich her analysis of care which illustrates shared experiences of exploitation and oppression in care practice and extends visions of radically liberated futures for all."-Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies "Grounded in disability justice, Just Care deftly draws from critical race, feminist, anticolonial, and queer studies to untangle the racist, cisheteropatriarchal, neocolonial, and ableist logics that have historically categorized people as care workers or care receivers.... Not only [is] the book an excellent encapsulation of key concepts from feminist-of-color disability studies, but it also [presents] an opportunity for students to reflect on care in the classroom and in their communities."-Resources for Gender and Women's Studies"Just Care is Nishida’s timely reminder to scholars, students, and organizers that neither care nor justice can be constructively practiced in isolation. Across five, highly accessible body chapters of storied prose and interview-based research with disabled people and their care workers, Nishida illustrates that if we want to practice just care, as in care justice, then we first need to recognize the justness of care.... Nishida thoughtfully engages conversations in disability studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, and queer studies to argue that no justice worth pursuing is possible without systems of care that both ensure people’s needs are met and interrogate the forces that exacerbate these needs beyond our collective capacity to address them."-Catalyst "Just Care is the first book someone who wishes to learn about care in the U.S. should read. It is long overdue, a major and timely exploration.... Nishida’s approach is groundbreaking because it both investigates and accounts for the perspectival differences between caregivers and care recipients.... [O]utstanding.”-Modern Fiction Studies

Akemi Nishida is an Assistant Professor of Disability and Human Development and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the coeditor of Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability.

"Nishida offers an innovative and eloquent examination of the multiplicity of care-care as a tool of surveillance and oppression, a commodity, a relational act that builds embodied knowledge and connection, and a revolutionary act that fundamentally challenges the violent degradation of certain bodies.... Just Care is profound in its criticism of the neoliberal U.S. care industrial complex and in its commitment to envisioning just systems of care that respect crip wisdom and value all lives. It offers a deeply personal, political, and poignant contribution to care studies.... Just Care is an important work that will fundamentally reshape conversations about care in American society. It is highly relevant to scholars and activists in the fields of disability studies, care, welfare, health, justice, feminist scholarship, and critical race analysis."-Social Forces "Nishida asks a number of urgent questions, including how our society and the regimes of governance operating in it determine whose needs are sacred and whose lives are disposable, whose needs are met and whose are ignored, and how caretaking happens (and does not happen) in our society.... Nishida’s book captures that dilemma between oppressive care assemblages and liberatory care collectives, access to care and control by the agencies of care, exploitation of care workers alongside their vital work, the capacity for self-definition and resistance in the context of a decapacitating society-the tension between and agency and constraint-in every situation she describes."-Wordgathering "Just Care is the kind of book that you want to return to, with content that is critically important for advancing our collective thinking around care. But there’s also the book itself. Nishida utilizes each of her 264 pages and five chapters as representative of her disability justice praxis. The care put into the text models the 'just care' that the book itself discusses."-Gender and Society "[A] nuanced analysis of the circulation of care within the U.S. neoliberal, neocolonial healthcare assemblage.... For teachers of critical qualitative research, disability or healthcare, or intersectional analyses, Just Care will be an excellent aid. For scholars and activists of various social movements for collective liberation, Just Care will nuance and oxygenate your analyses, commitments, and imagination."-Psychology of Women Quarterly "Overall, this must-read disability justice text is transformative and ingenious. It has so much to offer the existing bodies of knowledge within healthcare, healthcare policy, disability studies, activist spaces, and conceptualizations of disability and care. Just Care positions care as a dialectical tool of social control, oppression, resistance, and liberation. Nishida’s indispensable interdisciplinary background in disability studies...and feminist studies...and her positionality as a disabled woman of color enrich her analysis of care which illustrates shared experiences of exploitation and oppression in care practice and extends visions of radically liberated futures for all."-Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies "Grounded in disability justice, Just Care deftly draws from critical race, feminist, anticolonial, and queer studies to untangle the racist, cisheteropatriarchal, neocolonial, and ableist logics that have historically categorized people as care workers or care receivers.... Not only [is] the book an excellent encapsulation of key concepts from feminist-of-color disability studies, but it also [presents] an opportunity for students to reflect on care in the classroom and in their communities."-Resources for Gender and Women's Studies"Just Care is Nishida’s timely reminder to scholars, students, and organizers that neither care nor justice can be constructively practiced in isolation. Across five, highly accessible body chapters of storied prose and interview-based research with disabled people and their care workers, Nishida illustrates that if we want to practice just care, as in care justice, then we first need to recognize the justness of care.... Nishida thoughtfully engages conversations in disability studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, and queer studies to argue that no justice worth pursuing is possible without systems of care that both ensure people’s needs are met and interrogate the forces that exacerbate these needs beyond our collective capacity to address them."-Catalyst "Just Care is the first book someone who wishes to learn about care in the U.S. should read. It is long overdue, a major and timely exploration.... Nishida’s approach is groundbreaking because it both investigates and accounts for the perspectival differences between caregivers and care recipients.... [O]utstanding.”-Modern Fiction Studies