Carers, Care Homes and the British Media

Time to Care

Hannah Grist, Ros Jennings (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 112 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-35770-2 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the relationship between the media and those who work as paid care assistants in care homes in Britain. It explores this relationship in terms of the contemporary cultural and personal understandings of care work and care homes that have developed as the role has emerged as increasingly socially and economically significant in society. Three strands of analysis are integrated: an examination of the representations of paid care workers in the British media; the experiences of current and former care workers; and the autoethnographic reflections of the authors who have experiences of working as care assistants. The book offers a rich contextual and experiential account of the responsibilities, challenges, and emotions of care work in British society. Grist and Jennings make a case for the need to better value and more accurately represent care work in contemporary media accounts.

Hannah Grist is Co-Director of the Centre for Women Ageing and Media (WAM) at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Her research interests lie in ageing studies, media and cultural studies, and qualitative methodologies. Alongside Ros Jennings, she is co-author of a chapter in Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings (2017).
Ros Jennings is Co-Director of the Centre for Women Ageing and Media (WAM), and Professor of Ageing, Culture and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Her research focuses on older age identities in relation to popular music, popular television, and late style performances. She is author of The WAM Manifesto (2012).

1. Introduction.- 2. Autoethnographies of Care.- 3. Little more than Fools and Monsters: Care workers in the UK Media.- 4. Conversations with Carers.- 5. Concluding Thoughts.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	XI, 112 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	173 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Age • Ageing Studies • British media • Care • carers • elderly • media reports • Old age • older
ISBN-10	3-030-35770-8 / 3030357708
ISBN-13	978-3-030-35770-2 / 9783030357702
Zustand	Neuware