Aversions to the commodification of care: how young Swiss adults plan to organise their future families

Schwiter, Karin

doi:10.1080/14649365.2012.731701

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“…The atomistic understanding of human nature that market rhetoric promotes may serve to undermine relational approaches to care (Held, 2002;Hoppania and Vaittinen, 2015;Tronto, 2013). Scholars have also raised concerns about the ways in which emphasising the rights and responsibilities of individuals to self-determine their own care may serve to undermine collective models (Boyer et al, 2013;Green and Lawson, 2011;Schwiter, 2013). For instance, Hall (2011) examines the restructuring of care provision for people with learning disabilities through his case study of 'Personal Budgets' in the United Kingdom, which shifted the management of care funding from local governments to the individual.…”

Section: Marketised Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Getting the crowd to care: Marketing illness through health-related crowdfunding in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Campaigns for personal health expenses make up the largest and fastest-growing segment of donation-based crowdfunding. Set against the backdrop of retrenchment and disinvestment in public healthcare systems across the global North, health-related crowdfunding is a way to navigate increasingly marketised systems of social reproduction. Despite high profile success stories, campaigns vary significantly in their ability to capture the hearts, and ultimately wallets, of donors. While existing analyses of online campaign pages offer some insight into the marketing of healthcare needs, far less is known about practices and experiences of crowdfunding platform users, including campaigners. Bringing literature on crowdfunding together with accounts of the marketisation of care, our paper asks: how do campaigners work to secure crowdfunded healthcare? Through the accounts of 15 people campaigning on behalf of family or friends in Aotearoa New Zealand, we show how attempts to appeal to donors depend on campaigners’ abilities to ‘market’ illness and need in ways that resonate with the crowd. We have two main foci. First, we examine the responsibility and responsibilisation of campaigners to engage and perform accountability to crowdfunders. Second, we show how campaigners mobilise recipients’ traits of deservingness and other culturally favoured personal qualities to appeal to the crowd's perceived predilections. In sum, the paper demonstrates how the use of crowdfunding is both necessitated by the marketisation of healthcare while simultaneously exerting its own form of market discipline.

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Section: Marketised Carementioning

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Getting the crowd to care: Marketing illness through health-related crowdfunding in Aotearoa New Zealand

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“…Some other works have focused on future domestic practices. For example, by exploring young Swiss adults’ aspiration to avoid any form of commodified childcare in their future families, Schwiter (2013) notes that the notion of the family home as a safe place for children and a private space is insisted upon, and the neoliberal model of the universal adult worker – which disregards care obligations – is challenged by this imagination of the future family. Therefore, the future domestic practices of care are constructed by these young people’s current understanding of and aspiration toward the ‘ideal home’.…”

Section: Domesticating Past Present and Futurementioning

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Rethinking the timescape of home: Domestic practices in time and space

Liu

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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Although geographers have long argued that time and space are interwoven in everyday life, far less attention has been paid to complex and multiplex connections among temporal rhythms/cycles, the experience of temporal relations and a sense of temporal modalities in the domestic sphere. This article harnesses the notion of ‘timescape’, which emphasises the association between practices in space and time, to seek the time-spaces and temporalities in the domestic. It argues that geographies of home need to pay more attention to the links across everyday time and temporality, life-time and large-scale time and their wider implications in diverse contexts.

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“…Because the stores make money through selling large amounts of goods at a small markup, the process of purchasing and stocking these goods is very labor intensive. This process is similar to immigrant childcare workers whose City & Society physical presence is necessary to facilitate the work of high income professionals and this labor is often undervalued or considered unskilled (Boyer et al 2013;Cohen 1995;Schwiter 2013). While it is possible to own a store and make one daily shopping trip or to rely on delivery trucks these strategies will result in a less profitable store because products will run out between deliveries and profits will be lost because of the cost of delivery fees.…”

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Social Reproduction and Urban Competitiveness: How Dominican Bodegueros Use the Care Economy

Pine

2015

City & Society

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Drawn from a larger project examining immigration and economic redevelopment in Philadelphia, this article examines the way bodegas (small neighborhood‐based variety stores) challenge relations of competitiveness inherent in neoliberal urban development. I argue that while the rhetoric of competition and entrepreneurialism abound in discussions of urban development, ethnographic research in urban neighborhoods suggest that the caring labor of social reproduction also plays a strong role in how immigrant communities establish themselves and neighborhoods develop. I use the experience of bodegueros to demonstrate how care operates to support families, businesses, and communities within the competitive, neoliberal city. I argue care work is often juxtaposed with neoliberalism, while in reality this is a false dichotomy. Urban neoliberalism is undergirded with care labor, and it is central to the institutionalization of bodegas within urban neighborhoods as it helps sustain neighborhoods and supports the upward mobility of families who work in bodegas.

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Aversions to the commodification of care: how young Swiss adults plan to organise their future families

Cited by 7 publications

References 39 publications

Getting the crowd to care: Marketing illness through health-related crowdfunding in Aotearoa New Zealand

Getting the crowd to care: Marketing illness through health-related crowdfunding in Aotearoa New Zealand

Rethinking the timescape of home: Domestic practices in time and space

Social Reproduction and Urban Competitiveness: How Dominican Bodegueros Use the Care Economy

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