Abstract
In theorizations of care the question posed traditionally is: What is care? This is the wrong question to ask on the wrong theoretical terrain. Instead, I want to pose a different question: How are the changing conditions of care and an attention to power and struggles reframing our theorizing of care? The answer is a new vocabulary: to see care as an assemblage involving strangers traversed by different logics and part of emotional regimes. Uncertainty and fragmentation of care create new realities, and instead of seeing the elderly as involved in relations of care, we need to think in terms of relatedness. To theorize care is a controversial question. It has been argued that it is difficult to say anything in general about care so this chapter returns hesitantly to the question of how to theorize care with a broader, more specific notion of power.
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Dahl, H.M. (2017). Theorizing Elderly Care. In: Struggles In (Elderly) Care. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57761-0_3
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