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Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context
Shahra Razavi
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Description for Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context
Paperback. This book offers a signpost to help clarify our ideas on caring for the world in the twenty-first century. Headed by a veteran Senior Researcher, contributors from a wide range of backgrounds extend our understanding of the care economy in the developing world at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus. Editor(s): Razavi, Shahra. Series: Development and Change Special Issues. Num Pages: 276 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKS; JPQB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 222 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.
Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.
- Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the “invisible economy” of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Frames the debate on care and highlights policy experimentation and ideas currently in flux
- Includes new research and data on developing countries, showing how, where care options for the socially disadvantaged are limited, failing to socialize the costs of care ... Read more
- Comes at a moment when, if not yet marked by a generalized care crisis, the world’s existing systems are under strain and in need of rethinking
- Features introductory chapters that set out the conceptual framework and findings on individual country studies, and a concluding chapter that draws out the transnational dimensions of care
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
Development and Change Special Issues
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444361537
SKU
V9781444361537
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99-1
About Shahra Razavi
Shahra Razavi is Senior Researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). She specializes in the gender dimensions of social development, with a particular focus on livelihoods and social policy. Her recent books include The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards "Embedded Liberalism"? (2009) and Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ... Read more
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