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Many gerontologists argue that citizenship should be re-conceptualised in order to include entitlements to care for persons with dementia. I agree with their claim; however, I put forward that what is needed is a re-conceptualisation of the citizen. Specifically, I argue that care theory must explicitly divest itself from an understanding of the citizen as an adult. My proposal is for a naturalised concept of the citizen, which means that it would be based on the reality of actual human beings. Citizens age, their abilities are diverse and these vary throughout their lifetimes.

In this paper, I examine the policies put forward by the French government to address the increasing need for eldercare. I analyze two pivotal terms in these policies—dependency and solidarity—and I consider the proposal of Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president from 2007 to 2012, to frame dependency as a fifth social risk. ; Dans cet article, nous étudions les politiques françaises de soutien pour les personnes âgées dépendantes. En particulier, nous évaluons la proposition du gouvernement de Nicolas Sarkozy de qualifier la dépendance de cinquième risque social.

In post‐Fordist economies, the nature of laboring activities can no longer be subsumed under a Taylorized model of labor, and the service sector now constitutes a larger share of the market. For Maurizio Lazzarato, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and other theorists in the post‐Marxist tradition, labor has changed from a commodity‐producing activity to one that does not produce a material object. For these authors, this new type of labor is immaterial labor and entails communicative acts as well as added worker agency. This paper reflects on this new paradigm of labor by examining the paid practices of care defined as the activities performed by individuals who have a mandate to help another adult accomplish the tasks of self‐care. Because care workers take care of other bodies, care labor exemplifies an embodied practice. I make use of the corporeality of care to put forward the notion of thin and thick embodiment in order to examine critically the meaning of immaterial labor and to support my claim that immaterial labor, as conceptualized by Hardt and Negri, erases both the materiality and relationality of care labor. Furthermore, typifying care labor as immaterial only serves to maintain its marginalized status.Care Assistant. Required to work within a private residential center to assist nursing staff. Experience desirable, qualifications an advantage, but caring and understanding more important than either. Must have good English to understand instructions and be co‐operative to work in a friendly team environment (Toynbee 2007, 220).

La croissance de la population vieillissante en Amérique du Nord a un impact significatif sur nos politiques sociales. Ainsi, l'État québécois met à la disposition des personnes âgées une aide afin de faciliter le maintien à domicile. Qui a maintenant la responsabilité de répondre aux besoins des personnes âgées; est-ce la famille ou l'État? Si la réponse peut nous aider à formuler des politiques sociales équitables, elle nous pousse aussi à repenser le lien social à la lumière de la dépendance. Dans un premier temps nous nous pencherons sur l'évolution de l'éthique de la sollicitude pour ensuite analyser les apports des études sur la production du handicap. Puisque la problématique de la dépendance s'avère cruciale dans ce débat, les écrits de deux théoriciens français, Albert Memmi et Bernard Ennuyer, nous aideront à élucider la question de la dépendance. Nous verrons par la suite comment ces divers apports peuvent nous amener à reconceptualiser le lien social. ; In this paper I examine whether care ethics can help to conceptualize a richer social ontology which would include a variety of individuals, not only productive ones, under the auspices of justice. In the first part of the paper, I consider the reasons why care ethics has not had a profound impact in political theorizing. Next I examine the troubled relationship of care ethics and disability. Recent writings on social contract theory, in particular those of Anita Silvers and Leslie Pickering as well as Lawrence Becker, argue that social contract theory can include profoundly disabled individuals and I contrast their proposals with that of care ethicists. By examining critical writings on dependency, I show that a strategy for a more inclusive social space needs to include social structures that recognize dependency as a human reality. I argue that care ethics, even if it may not be critical enough of the foundational concept of dependence, is helpful in understanding the role of the state in facilitating the recognition and the contribution of all persons within society.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Minding Bodies -- PART I: BECOMING EMBODIED SUBJECTS -- 1 Emotional Metamorphoses: The Role of in Becoming a Subject -- 2 Racial Grief and Melancholic Agency -- 3 A Knowing That Resided in My Bones: Sensuous Embodiment and Trans Social Movement -- 4 The Phrenological Impulse and the Morphology of Character -- 5 Personal Identity, Narrative Integration, and Embodiment -- 6 Bodily Limits to Autonomy: Emotion, Attitude, and Self-Defense -- PART II: EMBODIED RELATIONS, POLITICAL CONTEXTS -- 7 Relational Existence and Termination of Lives: When Embodiment Precludes Agency -- 8 A Body No Longer of One's Own -- 9 Premature (M)Othering: Levinasian Ethics and the Politics of Fetal Ultrasound Imaging -- 10 Inside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity -- 11 Collective Memory or Knowledge of the Past: "Covering Reality with Flowers" -- 12 Agency and Empowerment: Embodied Realities in a Globalized World -- List of Contributors -- Index