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Social Investment Frames and Social Justice Claims in Competing Interpretations of Care Needs |
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Fiona Williams |
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This paper is about the social politics of care provision and policies. It examine show care needs are interpreted and looks at this from two perspectives: first, from the sorts of claims for state support to emerge ‘from below ’, that is, from movements and organizations of those with unpaid and paid caring responsibilities and those with needs for support; and second, from care policies ‘from above ’—from supranational organizations and national governments. It proposes that these two perspectives represent two overlapping but competing frames for interpreting care needs: social justice (from below ) and social investment (from above ). The paper argues that while the social investment frame has provided spaces to raise issues associated with the social
justice claims, it has, at the same time, led to policies that have undermined those claims. While its evidence is drawn from Europe , its relevance extends beyond Europe in arguing that care is a global issue requiring an approach to global justice which understands the centrality of care in everyday life . |
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