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Akhter, Shahnaz, Elias, Juanita and Rai, Shirin (2022) Being cared for in the context of crisis : austerity, COVID-19 and racialized politics. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 29 (4). pp. 1121-1143. doi:10.1093/sp/jxac035 ISSN 1468-2893.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac035
Abstract
This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the UK. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersectional crisis of social reproduction worsened by both austerity and COVID-19. We do this through an analysis of a small set of interviews with South Asian older women with care needs, conducted during the first period of UK national lockdown in 2020. This was a pilot study, focusing on the challenges faced in accessing formal and informal care during this period of the pandemic. The experiences, fears and vulnerabilities that came through in the interviews are located within a broader analysis of the racialized care crisis – one that reveals the long-term harms that austerity, including ‘austerity Islamophobia,’ generated for these older women and their families as they struggled to provide and access un/paid care.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1468-2893 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 29 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1121-1143 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/sp/jxac035 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 September 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 October 2022 | ||||||||
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