Depletion

• Verfasst von: Rai, Shirin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Depletion
• Titelzusatz: the human costs of caring
• Verf.angabe: Shirin M. Rai
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753557-8
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197535547.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Rai, Shirin, 1960 - : Depletion. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024. - xiv, 276 Seiten
• RVK-Notation: MS 3075
• Sach-SW: Society
• Sach-SW: Social services & welfare, criminology
• K10plus-PPN: 1900814323
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Shirin M. Rai examines the human costs of caring and how these are reproduced across the boundaries of class, race, gender, and generation. Including case studies from different parts of the world and building on various methodologies, Rai looks at the costs of care work, or what she calls 'social reproduction' in several forms. Chapters examine the costs of commuting to work, the value of unpaid work performed by women of different classes, the costs of household work performed by children, and the costs to communities when local economies are challenged by corporate interests.

Abstract

"This book examines the human costs of care and caring and how these are reproduced across generations-a topic often overlooked in the theoretical analysis of the issue. I explore the multiple facets of social reproductive work and argue that its undervaluing costs those who perform this work, and as such a subsidy to the state and capital. I argue that unrecognized, depletion erodes individual lives as well as social institutions (family, community groups and our ecologies), which is generative of harm-historic, present and anticipatory-at each of these levels. Consent does not mitigate harm. Inequalities of race, gender and class are critical in the understanding of depletion as are human and non-human costs. There is an urgent need to recognise the scale of depletion and the rate at which it takes place in different contexts and strategies developed to reverse it. With case studies from different parts of the world, and building on various methodologies, the book shows how depletion is both a contributing factor and an outcome of economic, environmental, health and social crises. This book is a strong indictment against overlooking depletion; recognition of depletion can result in strategizing for the reversal of this harm in complex and multi-layered forms-mitigation, replenishment and transformation. The struggles to reverse depletion are struggles for a good life, generative of new imaginings of how this work of care, both draining and joyful, can be reorganised"--