Introduction : Carelessness Reigns. Careless worlds ; Carewashed markets ; Careless states ; Uncaring communities ; Careless kinships ; The solution
1. Caring Politics. Dependency and care ; Ambivalences of care
2. Caring Kinships. Alternative caring kinships ; Caring across difference ; Promiscuous care
3. Caring Communities. Mutual support ; Space to care ; Sharing stuff ; Caring communities are democratic communities ; Caring in common
4. Caring States. The welfare state and its discontents ; Rethinking the Keynesian welfare state ; From welfare state to caring state
5. Caring Economies. Capitalist markets : 'Free' from whom? ; Care logics versus market logics ; Demarketising care infrastructures ; Re-regulating markets and defetishising commodities
6. Caring for the World. Our extensive interdependence ; Transnational institutions and the global valuation of care ; A global alliance of caring connections ; Borders ; The interdependence of care ; Afterthoughts