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Apologies for cross-posting International Journal of Care and Caring The International Journal of Care and Caring commences publication in 2017 as a journal of Policy Press. A Themed Issue, bringing together cutting-edge research articles, is planned for publication in 2018. Call for Papers for a Themed Issue on: Variations and Innovations in Care and Care Work: Critical Perspectives Guest Editors: Prof. Karen Christensen (University of Bergen, Norway) and Prof. Yueh-Ching Chou (National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan) Background to the call In recent decades, the nature and experience of care and care work has become increasingly diverse. Some countries have changed their policies and practices, aiming, for example, to support older and disabled people in living independent lives; to deliver some support through privatised or marketised, rather than public, services; and to offer older and disabled people and their families care and support over which they can have greater choice and control.1 New forms of care work have emerged to support these shifting priorities. Care work supporting independent living and empowering disabled people (as advocated by disability movement campaigners) is about ‘supporting’ people, rather than ‘caring for’ them, and is often called ‘personal assistance’.2 This type of support differs in important respects from the care work delivered by workers in traditional home, community or residential care. However the latter have also been changing and becoming more diverse: for example by introducing new policies of rehabilitation using physical training to strengthen older people’s self-care, or by seeking to respond to the cultural background of migrants ageing in their host country. Linked to these changes, care work is also increasingly delivered by directly (often privately) employed personal assistants or live-in workers; by private or not-for-profit care agencies, large and small, in which workers may be employed on precarious terms3; or by specialised or innovative service providers. Some care work uses technologies to monitor, support or enhance the services provided; new arts and humanities-based therapies and new forms of rehabilitation have emerged; and in some cases older and disabled people are able to design and choose their own support. The International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC) aims to publish a Themed Issue on Variations and Innovations in Care and Care Work, bringing together articles and other contributions to critically assess these developments and their impact, and setting them in their wider political, economic and moral context. Central to the discussion will be the new policies promoted within social care systems – personalisation; choice, control and independence for service users; user involvement and participation – and the new kinds of work and social relations these have ushered in. Call for contributions Articles and other contributions are invited for the Themed Issue which examine how care workers, care providers, older and disabled people or family/friend carers have been affected, positively or negatively, by these developments - and on their consequences (intended and otherwise) in their lives and care relationships. The editors aim to include 5-7 high quality research articles, 3 items in IJCC’s regular ‘Debates and Issues’ section, and a set of book and conference reviews relevant to the overall theme. Together, these will help answer the following questions: To what extent has the introduction of policies about personalisation, independence and user participation led to new kinds of care and care work? What claims have been made about these new forms of care, and does evidence from implementation and practice support these? What have been the consequences (intended or unintended) of these developments for different social care service users, care workers, care providers and family/friend carers? How and why do the processes and consequences of these new forms of care work differ between countries, cultures and care-policy regimes? Information for contributors Articles: Authors wishing to publish an article in the Themed Issue on Variations and Innovations in Care and Care Work should submit an extended abstract (600 words) setting out their topic and methods and describing the thesis or argument of their article or the hypothesis it will explore. Draft articles already in preparation may also be submitted at this stage. Research-based articles will be selected for publication in IJCC on the basis of blind peer-review of their academic quality and contribution to knowledge. Within IJCC’s Themed Issue on Variations and Innovations in Care and Care Work, articles will be grouped under coherent sub-themes. Possible examples are indicated here, although others may be considered. The Themed Issue will also include an editorial article by guest editors Karen Christensen and Yueh-Ching Chou. Sub-themes for articles may include: Innovations in Care Provision: aspirations, outcomes and realities: These papers would advance understanding of the differences in how social care is provided to older and/or disabled people and examine differences between the intentions behind service developments or reforms and how they are experienced and practised in everyday life. Caring Relations under Service Innovations: promise, progress and problems: These papers would advance understanding of how relationships between care workers/personal assistants (etc.) and users of services are influenced by changes and innovations in care schemes, arrangements and practices. These may be explored from different perspectives, such as empowerment, in/equality (gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, etc.) or cultural diversity, and will ideally consider these relationships from the perspectives of care workers / personal assistants (etc.) and users of services (disabled / older people). Caring Arrangements in Transition: philosophies, politics and ethics: These papers would locate discussions about the care, support and assistance available to older people and disabled adults, and the development of ideas and policies about supporting their independence, within discussions about the ethics, philosophy and political economy of care. Social Care Reforms and Innovations: international comparative perspectives: These papers would offer comparative analysis of social care reforms or innovations in several countries, advancing understanding of the similarities and differences in how related policies and ideas have been implemented (and their consequences) in different contexts. The Debates and Issues and Reviews sections of the IJCC Contributions for these sections of the Themed Issue of IJCC are also invited. Debates and Issues These items are ‘free to view’ in the IJCC, to give voice to the perspectives of policymakers, carers’ and disabled or older people’s organisations, trade unions, employers and others. Ideas for items on the Variations and Innovations in Care and Care Work theme may be discussed with the guest editors at an early stage. These items (1,500-2,500 words) are not subject to academic peer review. Reviews IJCC publishes both book and conference reviews, and the guest editors welcome suggestions for items on the theme of Variations and Innovations in Care and Care Work for inclusion in this issue of the journal. Deadlines and submission arrangements For articles, extended abstracts (600 words) should be sent to Yueh-Ching Chou at [log in to unmask] by 30 April 2017. (Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the editors’ decision about including their article by 15 May 2017.) Within two weeks of notification, contributors whose abstracts are accepted must confirm their intention to submit a full article. Authors should then submit their completed article for peer review by 30 September 2017, presenting this in conformity with IJCC house style, via the online IJCC Editorial Manager site at: http://ijcc.edmgr.com. Debates & Issues or Reviews items must be submitted by 31 October 2017, also via the IJCC Editorial Manager site. IJCC aims to publish its Themed Issue on Variations and Innovations in Care and Care Work in IJCC Volume 2 (2018). Additional information for contributors The Guest Editors will manage the process of: • Initially considering papers. • Identifying reviewers and sending papers out for peer review, in consultation with IJCC’s editors, using the journal’s ‘Editorial Manager’ system. • Communicating reviewers’ comments to the authors. • Deciding whether revised papers need to be reviewed again. • Making a provisional decision to accept or reject. Contributors should note: The Editors of IJCC will aim to publish the Themed Issue in 2018, but potential contributors should note that IJCC’s Editors may decide to: • Run the Themed Issue in a later issue than originally planned. • Accept only some of the papers and put them instead in a themed section of another issue of IJCC, which also includes other papers. • Accept only one or two papers and present them as regular contributions to the journal. • Determine that none of the papers meets the quality standards or targeted content of the journal. Prof Sue Yeandle, Editor in Chief, International Journal of Care and Caring, Editors Sue Yeandle, Editor-in-Chief Yueh-Ching Chou and Michael Fine, Co-Editors Joan Tronto, Consulting Editor, North America The International Journal of Care and Caring For further information about the journal, please see: https://policypress.co.uk/journals/international-journal-of-care-and-caring Enquiries about IJCC can also be sent to the IJCC Editorial Office: email [log in to unmask]