Infrastructures of Informal Care

Michelle Peterie is ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. Katherine Kenny is Associate Professor of Sociology, Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and ARC DECRA Principal Research Fellow at The University of Sydney. Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. Gaby Ramia is Professor of Policy and Society and Chair of the Discipline of Government and International Relations at The University of Sydney.

“At a time when hostility and contempt have come to play a prominent role in political life, this volume offers a timely intervention. The editors and contributors argue that care – both as a practice and as a value embedded in institutions – is a vital condition for the functioning of societies. With intellectual precision and moral clarity, they show how practices and institutions shaped by histories of coloniality and exclusion can be reimagined as a transformative and just foundation for collective life in the 21st century.” Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna “Infrastructures of Informal Care brings together a range of incisive analysis that reveals the various ways contemporary underlying structures and resources shape, extend, deepen and constrain informal relations of care. The collected volume importantly offers a range of examples, drawing out the significance of social infrastructures that are relational and socio-technical, distilling the depth, complexity and renewal of informal care relations that sustain our social worlds across time.” Karen Soldatic, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Introduction: Infrastructures of Informal Care – Michelle Peterie, Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom and Gaby RamiaPart I: Inequalities of Care1. Researching Care Infrastructures in the Shadows of the Welfare State – Emma Mitchell, Emma R. Power, Ilan Wiesel and Kathleen Mee2. On the Need for New Infrastructures: Practices of Care for Families Multiple – kylie valentine, Sally Robinson, Jala Burton and Amy Marshall3. Understanding Family Financial Assistance with Home Ownership as Private Infrastructure of Care – Julia Cook4. Formal Care on Informal Time: Australia’s Disability Care Infrastructure – Morag Kelly and Michelle Peterie Part II: Care, Exploitation and Expropriation5. Coloniality and Care – Elise Klein6. Infrastructures of the Heart: Thinking-Feeling with Non-Innocent Care – Lisa Slater7. Creating Communities of Statelessness: Testimonies of Belonging and Care – Jordana SilversteinPart III: Valuing (Emancipatory) Care8. Food Security During Covid-19: Manifesting a Migrant Ethics of Care – Sukhmani Khorana9. Who Cares for the Carer? Formal and Informal Supports for Carer Well-Being and Identity – Amy Conley Wright10. Infrastructures of Governance: Understanding (the Inadequacies of) Care for International Students – Gaby Ramia11. Exploring the Dynamic Between an Ethic of Care and the Paid Work Ethic in Australian Society – Greg Marston12. Contesting the Changing Politics of Care – Ben Spies-ButcherConclusion: Considering the Future of Care – Katherine Kenny, Michelle Peterie, Alex Broom and Gaby Ramia