Runswick-Cole, K. orcid.org/0000-0001-9658-9718 and Smith, M. (2024) Dis/entangling disability, mental health and the cultural politics of care. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 26 (1). pp. 28-43. ISSN 1501-7419
Abstract
This paper explores how understandings of care can be prefigured through engagements with concepts of ableism and sanism as productive and radical companions for (re)thinking care. Working with family carers and people with learning disabilities as part of a co-produced project based in England: Tired of spinning plates: an exploration of the mental health experiences of adults and/or older carers of adults with learning disabilities (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) 135080, October 2022-November 2024), we notice the absence of the concepts of ableism and sanism in theorisations of the cultural politics of care. We begin by describing family carers’ complex entanglements with categories of ‘carer’, ‘learning disability’, and ‘mental health’. We draw on theorisations of ableism and sanism to inform our analysis of caring relationships, attending to the dis/temporalities and dis/locations of care and the centrality of dis/political love. We conclude by reflecting on what academics, policy makers and practitioners might learn about caring practices from family carers and people with learning disabilities, crucially acknowledging and embracing the power of dis/political love in caring relationships.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | Disability; care; cultural politics; co production |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE NIHR135080 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2024 11:45 |
Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2024 11:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Stockholm University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.16993/sjdr.1101 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:209182 |