Love and the Politics of Care

Methods, Pedagogies, Institutions

Dr. Stanislava Dikova, Dr. Wendy McMahon, Dr. Jordan Savage

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
27 June 2024

Literary studies: general; Sociology: family & relationships; Psychology: emotions

This edited volume offers a contemporary rethinking of the relationship between love and care in the context of neoliberal practices of professionalization and work. Each of the book’s three sections interrogates a particular site of care, where the affective, political, legal, and economic dimensions of care intersect in challenging ways. These sites are located within a variety of institutionally managed contexts such as the contemporary university, the theatre hall, the prison complex, the family home, the urban landscape, and the care industry. The geographical spread of the case studies stretches across India, Vietnam, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, the UK and the US and provides broad coverage that crosses the divide between the Global North and the Global South.

To address this transnational interdisciplinary field of study, the collection utilises insights from across the humanities and social sciences and includes contributions from literature, sociology, cultural and media studies, philosophy, feminist theory, theatre, art history, and education. These inquiries build on a variety of conceptual tools and research methods, from data analysis to psychoanalytic reading. Love and the Politics of Care delivers an attentive and widely relevant examination of the politics of care and makes a compelling case for an urgent reconsideration of the methods that currently structure and regulate it.

Edited by: Dr. Stanislava Dikova, Dr. Wendy McMahon, Dr. Jordan Savage
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501387685
ISBN 10: 1501387685
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 27 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stanislava Dikova is a postdoctoral researcher in twentieth century literature and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex. Wendy McMahon is an Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of East Anglia. Jordan Savage is a Lecturer in United States Literature at the University of Essex.

Reviews for Love and the Politics of Care: Methods, Pedagogies, Institutions

This is a beautifully and eloquently written volume about love and its vicissitudes, particularly as they relate to practices of care and the psychosocial challenges underpinning them. Building on concrete examples that span across a range of spatial, temporal and institutional contexts, the volume offers a truly transdisciplinary account of love, care and their interrelationship. An essential reading for anyone interested in a more capacious and politically ambitious understanding of love and care. * Andreas Chatzidakis, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Culture, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, and member of The Care Collective * As an interdisciplinary study of the emotion 'love', this book offers a rich survey that enables its readers to understand the social, historical, cultural, psychological conditions that surround and shape this emotion as well as this practice. Putting love and care side by side, it provides intriguing analysis of the artistic and literary representations of love. * Mine Özyurt Kiliç, Professor of English Language and Literature, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey * This authoritative edited collection puts the issue of our times – the politics of care – in conversation with a concept that has been criminally under-addressed in social theory – love. In doing so, it makes a wide-ranging set of original interventions across different methodological, disciplinary and transnational contexts. Essays extend across topics as diverse as representations of Indian marriage cultures to the place of love in Brazilian elderly care work. Love and the Politics of Care is set to become an important contribution in this increasingly urgent field of enquiry. * Jamie Hakim, Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London, UK, and member of The Care Collective * Love and the Politics of Care: Methods, Pedagogies, Institutions presents an interesting and unique set of works that sets a place for love, in all its guises, at the table of humanity. It will undoubtedly appeal to readers who have an interdisciplinary interest in how love and care is personally and professionally represented and situated in the experiences of people’s everyday lives around the globe. * Jools Page, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Brighton, UK *