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The concept of care: Insights, challenges and research avenues in COVID-19 times

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Daly, Mary·2021·Journal of European Social Policy
DOI 10.1177/0958928720973923
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This review focuses on the concept of care, a concept that has never been more popular as a focus of study. It undertakes a critical review, motivated by the breadth of the field and the lack of coherence and linkages across a diverse literature. The review concentrates first on organizing and reviewing the literature in terms of key focus and, second, drawing out the strengths and weaknesses of existing work and making suggestions for how future work might proceed in COVID-19 times. While the existing literature offers many insights, some quite basic things need to be reconsidered, not least definition and conceptualization. Defining care as based on the meeting of perceived welfare-related need, I develop it as comprising need, relations/actors, resources and ideas and values. Each of these dimensions has an inherent disposition towards the study of inequality and it is possible, either by looking at them individually or all together, to identify care as situated in relations of relative power and inequality. The framework allows a set of critical questions to be posed in relation to COVID-19 and the policies and resources that have been mustered in response.

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Authors
Daly, M.
Affiliations
University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Daly, Mary
Venue
Journal of European Social Policy
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2020-12-06
Volume
31
Issue
1
Pages
108-118
ISSN
  • 0958-9287 (ISSN-L)
  • 1461-7269
DOI
10.1177/0958928720973923
OpenAlex
W3111731791
Cited by
95
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 4
FWCI
14.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
Journal of European Social Policy (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Social Sciences and Policies
Keywords
concept of care, care relationships, care resources, care values, inequality, power relations, COVID-19 pandemic, care policy

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