Regulating Elderly Care And Struggles

Abstract

This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political processes, including the forces of globalisation and the de-gendering of care, have changed how we might understand this national and global political concern. Emerging discourses such as neoliberalism have also reframed elderly care to increase existing tensions at the individual, national, and transnational level. Dahl argues that in order to grasp these new realities of care we need a new analytical framework that redirects us to new sites of contestation. Dahl approaches these issues from a post-structuralist and radical feminist position, while drawing from feminist sociology, feminist political science, nursing philosophy and feminist history. In particular, Struggles In (Elderly) Care highlights how the predominantly feminist theorization of care has been dominated by a sociological bias that could be improved using insights from political science concerning concepts of power and struggle, and the importance of the state and governance. This book will be of interest to researchers in sociology, gerontology, nursing, and feminist studies. 1: Introduction; The Proliferation and Intensification of Struggles; Struggles in Elderly Care; A Map of Struggles; Struggles About Silencing and Regulation; A Feminist, Critical Insider; Why Is This Book Necessary?; Struggles, Multilevel Governmentality and Transnational Discourses; The Structure of the Book; Notes; References; 2: The Changing Landscape of Elderly Care and the Proliferation of Struggles; Social and Political Processes Changing the Landscape; Commodifying Care: Markets, Outsourcing and Emotional Labor Professionalizing and Struggles About Knowledge, Ideals of Care and Boundaries Individualization, Late Modern Families and Changing Images of Old Age; Gendering and De-gendering of Care; Globalizing and Migration; Bureaucratizing; Neo-liberalism and Neo-liberalizing; A Changing Landscape of Elderly Care: Uncertainty, Complexity and Tensions; Notes; References; 3: Theorizing Elderly Care; Existing, Dominant Theory, and Bringing Power Back In; Three Other Straitjackets of Our Thinking; Power-over and Power-to in Care; Using Foucault's Concept of Critique Relatedness, Assemblage of Care and Strangers Reframing Dilemmas into Struggles Between Different Logics; Emotional Regimes; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4: Silences That Matter; Silence and Silencing; Silencing and Care; Identifying Silencing4; Deconstruction; Comparative Discourse Analysis; Memory Work; Silencing 'Loneliness' and the 'Professional Carer'; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5: Regulating Elderly Care And Struggles; From Government to Hybrid Forms of Regulation; Struggles Between Different Logics in Hybrid Forms of Regulation; Multilevel, Global Governmentality Struggles in Multilevel, Global Governmentality Gendered Regulation; Struggles About Gendered Regulation; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6: Conclusion: A New Analytics; A New Analytics of Care: A Changing Landscape and a New Theorizing; Two Kinds of Struggles: Silencing and Regulation of Care; Beyond a Nordic Context? Beyond Elderly Care?; Regulation: A New Ideal of Elderly Care and Some Reflections; Challenges to the Existing Forms of Regulation?; Note; References; Index