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RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 28-31 August, 2018, Cardiff, UK
Call for papers: Changing landscapes of long-term care
Deadline: Sunday, February 11th, 2018
Session organisers:
Roos Pijpers, Hanna Carlsson, and Rianne van Melik (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
In many European countries, formal provision of long-term care is increasingly decentralised, as a result of austerity policies and a move away from institutional care forms. The decentralisation
does not only alter how care is organised, but also where care and caring take place. Milligan suggests that “the institutionalizing performance of care” is now “manifest across a new landscape of care that stretches from the home and community based settings
to the care home and beyond” (2009: 144). Milligan’s term ‘institutionalizing performance’ highlights how care providers are connected, albeit dispersed across space. This spatial redistribution of and dispersion of responsibilities across providers has changed
the configuration of care landscapes, in which certain care practices may emerge, and others disappear.
For example, we see that new forms of (in)formal care and organisations emerge (e.g. shifting of responsibilities from professionals to volunteers in the Netherlands (Grootegoed and Tonkens,
2017), and commercialisation of home care in Switzerland (Pelzelmayer, 2017), and that existing institutions are pushed to downsize, collaborate locally, and customise care services to meet the needs of diverse client groups. In countries like the Netherlands
and Great Britain, notions such as ‘participation society’ or ‘Big Society’ furthermore create an expectation on citizens to meet the care needs which used to be met by formal care providers.
Our session wants to explore how care landscapes are developing locally: at the scale of regions, cities and neighbourhoods. How are formal and/or informal care organisations reacting to the
changes? Which new connections and phenomena do we see? How do technologies, money and other resources, and emotional connections (e.g. with a community) and ideas (e.g. about multicultural care provision) pervade and transform care practices (Hui et al.,
2017)?
We further want to discuss how different groups are positioned in these new landscapes. How sensitive are these new care landscapes to the needs of migrants and their families, the elderly,
young people, and sexual minorities?
Topics for presentations may include but are not limited to:
-Local organisation of formal care
-Informal care networks
-The position of minority groups in new care landscapes
-Interactions of transnational networks and local health care as more citizens become “health bricoleurs”.
-Spaces of care, formal as well as informal (including public and shared spaces)
If interested, please send a proposal (title, 250-word abstract and author details) to:
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References:
-Grootegoed, E. and Tonkens, E. (2017).
Disabled and elderly citizens’ perceptions and experiences of voluntarism as an alternative to publically financed care in the Netherlands,
Health and Social Care in the Community, 25 (1), pp. 234-242.
-Hui, A., Shove, E. and Schatzki, T. (Eds) (2017).
The nexus of practices: connections, constellations, practitioners. London: Routledge.
-Milligan, C. (2009).
There’s no place like home: place and care in an ageing society. Farnham: Ashgate.
-Pelzelmayer, K. (2017). Care, pay, love: commodification and the spaces of live-in care,
Social & Cultural Geography, DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2017.1315446.
Dr Roos Pijpers│Radboud University Nijmegen│Department of Geography, Planning and Environment│[log in to unmask]│Ostrom N02.168│0031 (0)24 361 6123│afwezig op donderdagen
Recent and forthcoming publications:
Pijpers, R., De Kam, G. and Dorland, L. (2016),
Integrating Services for Older People in Aging Communities in The Netherlands: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Approaches. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 30 (4): 1-20, doi:
10.1080/02763893.2016.1224793
Van Eck, D. and Pijpers, R. (2017),
Encounters in Place Ballet: A Phenomenological Perspective on Older People’s Walking Routines in an Urban Park. Area,
2017, 49.2, 166–173,
doi: 10.1111/area.12311
Van Melik, R. and Pijpers, R. (2017),
Older People’s Self-Selected Spaces of Encounter in Urban Aging Environments in the Netherlands.
City & Community, 16 (3), doi: 10.1111/cico.12246