Beyond crisis? Using rent theory to understand the restructuring of publicly funded seniors' care in British Columbia, Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kendra Strau (0000-0003-3216-5793, Simon Fraser University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1506-1527 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x20983152 |
| PMID | 37810991 |
| OpenAlex | W3122858862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 72 |
Crises of seniors' care in countries like the UK and Canada, further highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, have been connected to processes of privatization and financialization. In this paper I argue that rent theory is important for disaggregating mechanisms, including of accumulation by dispossession, the devaluation of labour, and assetization, that underpin the process of financialization in the sector. Work on rents often divides between critical approaches, especially to land rent, and mainstream institutionalist and public choice approaches to rent-seeking. Critical rent theory is evolving beyond this divide to understand a broader range of types of rent. Yet, despite attention to the increasing importance of economic rents and forms of rentierism, labour and social reproduction are often excluded from the analysis of how rent relations arise. This paper demonstrates the problems with these exclusions. The argument is illustrated through an analysis of the restructuring of eldercare in British Columbia, Canada, in the last two decades, and employs a feminist political economy approach to examine the social production of rent relations
Economic rent · Economics · Financialization · Mainstream · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rent-seeking · Restructuring · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Finance
Geographies of Waiting
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’
Infrastructures of social reproduction
Interventions in critical health geopolitics
Healthcare as asset
Marx’s Theory of Land, Rent and Cities
Corporatisation and financialisation of social reproduction
Landlord opposition to rent control and the politics of class monopoly rent
The Commodification Gap and the Contradictory Dynamics of Cultural Monopoly Rent
The service transition as double fix
Class monopoly rent and the urban sustainability fix in Seattle's South Lake Union District
Business improvement districts, class turf war and the strategic weaponisation of class monopoly rent
Nefarious Algorithms
Covid “death pits”
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’
Labour, Financialization, and Rent in the Construction Industry
Consumer access to gendered healthcare
Fossil food
FemTech Assets
The moral economy of housing provision in Scandinavia and beyond
Devalued labour, Covid-19, and the problem of profitability
Towards a critical geography of aging
The land rent dynamics of public land development in Copenhagen
The Global Wealth Chains of Private‐Equity‐Run Physician Practices
Assetization as a mode of techno-economic governance
Who owns and controls global capital? Uneven geographies of asset manager capitalism
Financializing nursing homes? The uneven development of Health Care Reits in France, the United Kingdom and Japan
Introduction
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State
Urban Land Rent
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Valuing Care Work
Behind Marx’s Hidden Abode
Social Reproduction
Class Monopoly Rent and the Redevelopment of Portland's Pearl District
Life's Work
Gender and Social Reproduction
Towards a theory of rentiership
Austerity as epiphenomenon? Public assets before and beyond 2008
Valorised but not valued? Affective remuneration, social reproduction and feminist politics beyond the crisis
Organizing across divides
Gender, Financial Deepening and the Production of Embodied Finance
Neoliberal regime change and the remaking of global health
From the gene to the globe
Non‐job work/unpaid caring
Social impact bonds
The financialization of housing in Canada
In the Privacy of our own Home
Trust in a rent-seeking world
Labor Markets as Gendered Institutions
Displacement by disruption
On Workers' Theoretical (In)visibility in the Writing of Critical Urban Geography a Comradely Critique
Filling the gaps
The Hospital Employees' Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in British Columbia, Canada
Neoliberalisation from the Ground Up
Land as a Financial Asset
The Internet of Landlords
Class Meets Land
The Abstraction of Care
Nature, Capital and Neighborhoods
British Columbia's Capital Asset Management Framework
For real
Reasserting state power by remaking markets? The introduction of real estate investment trusts in France and its implications for state-finance relations in the Greater Paris region
Gentrification, suburban decline, and the financialization of multi-family rental housing
Migrant Workers in Home Care
Women, Money and Debt
Towards a Sociological Definition of Rent
Legitimation Crisis? On the Political Contradictions of Financialized Capitalism
Social reproduction and capitalist production
Gendering capital
Technoscience Rent
Rethinking Value in the Bio-economy
Deconstructing the Financialization of Healthcare
Out of Work or Out of Time? Rethinking Labor after the Financial Crisis
Elder care, distributive justice, and the welfare state; retrenchment or expansion
Precarious Work and Economic Migration
Assetization
The Theory of Land Rent at the Crossroads
Generational Dimensions of Neoliberal and Post-Fordist Restructuring
Airbnb and the rent gap
Dialectics of Disassembly
The rentierization of the United Kingdom economy
This can('t) be an asset class
Financialization and non-disposable women
Value Grabbing
On Climate Rent
From Servitude to Service Work
The contradictions of mediation
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |