num_pages: 263
description: Just Care is Akemi Nishidas thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers receivers or both. Also illuminated is how people with disabilities come together to assemble community care collectives and bed activism (resistance and visions emerging from the space of bed) to reimagine care as a key element for social change. The structure of care Nishida writes is deeply embedded in and embodies the cruel social orderbased on disability race gender migration status and wealththat determines who survives or deteriorates. Simultaneously many marginalized communities treat care as the foundation of activism. Using interviews focus groups and participant observation with care workers and people with disabilities Just Care looks into lives unfolding in the assemblage of Medicaid long-term care programs community-based care collectives and bed activism. Just Care identifies what care does and How can we activate care justice or just care where people feel cared affirmatively and care being used for the wellbeing of community and for just world making?
language: English
title: Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire
publisher: Temple University Press