Caring States Ambivalent Families How the Gift of
Caring States, Ambivalent Families: How the Gift of State-paid Senior Home Care Reconfigures the Internal State-Society Boundary in Serbia Andre Thiemann Riga Stradins University Project/agreement No. 1. 1. 1. 2/VIAA/2/18/271, Līguma Nr. 9. -14. 5/87
Structure of the paper 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Context Theory Translations of elder care policy Will to open up- and outwards Conclusions
Context Thelen, Tatjana, Andre Thiemann, and Duška Roth. 2017. “State Kinning and Kinning the State in Serbian Elder Care Programs. ” In Stategraphy. Towards a Relational Anthropology of the State, edited by Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda. Beckmann, 107– 23. Oxford: Berghahn.
Care Work, Joan Tronto 2011, 163, original emphasis : “[C]are work, by its nature, is relational and entails responsibilities among actors in these relationships. Because these relationships are both structured by, made possible through, and shaped by their political, social and economic contexts, a thorough accounting of these relationships requires a political process that is as broad as are the relationships themselves. ”
From relationships producing the gift of care to care producing relationships Care practices produce social organization “Rather than resulting from existing relationships, care practices need to be seen as vital for both constituting and dissolving significant relations spanning different fields of action. On an aggregated level these practices feed into the (re)making of social order as well as the shaping of social change. Practices of care thus at the heart of what Raymond Firth (1955: 2) early on declared as being implied in the term social organization (as opposed to social structure): ‘working towards an order – though not necessarily the same order’. ” (Thelen 2015, 498).
(40) State care network, Lilja
Elder Rajka, in the state – care - network
egonetwork of Ljubica
Caregiver Ljilja, Rajka and social worker Zorana
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