What is it about?
We explain how parents to small children plan their every day logistics to make care loops between home, kindergartens and work. Local care loops are the moves parents do to deliver and pick up children from childcare, go to work and how they struggle to make a gender egalitarian every day life in Norway.
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Why is it important?
Recent research on child care has focused on global solutions to local care problems. Here we want to show the complexities in families everyday life are mainly solved locally. However, a small group of parents among upper middle class and among financial elites combine local and global solutions to their child care problems. This article contributes to research on growing social inequalities in (post)egalitarian welfare states.
Perspectives
I think it is timely and valuable to stress the importance geo-political aspects have in modern everyday lives. Likewise, it is important to connect ethnicity, gender and class to recent emergencies of social-political hierarchies in the Norwegian population.
Lise Widding Isaksen
Universitetet i Bergen
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This page is a summary of: Egalitarian ideologies on the move: Changing care practices and gender norms in Norway, Journal of European Social Policy, December 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0958928719867789.
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