Care
Publication Date
2023
Faculty Department
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Document Type
Article
Abstract
With global shortages of healthcare workers and child care, news outlets around the world have reported a care crisis worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. A glimpse into care's long history adds what Raymond Williams described as ‘just that extra edge of consciousness’ (Keywords, 1976) to understand the implications of care in contemporary English usage. The word's complexity arises not only from its status as a noun and a verb but also from its ability to describe, variously, an action, a feeling, supervision, paid or unpaid labour and the object of care itself, as well as from the word's strong association with conflicting ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ emotions.
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Recommended Citation
Yanacek, Holly. (2023) Care. Critical Quarterly, 65: 51–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12727.
