‘Caring Communities and Urban Cultures of Care for Older People in Austria, Hungary, and The Netherlands’ – paper of Dóra Gábriel and her co-authors Valentin Fröhlich and Florian Pimminger was published

Caring communities are thereby understood as heterogeneous and dynamic ensembles of caring relations involving different actors, practices, and socio‐material dimensions. Drawing on theoretical and empirical work that critically assesses care, caring communities and urban life, they ask the following questions: (a) How are the analysed cases embedded into the respective (country‐specific and local) care regimes?; (b) how do community initiatives (re‐)appropriate urban spaces?; and (c) how do community initiatives implement new urban cultures of care and constitute social infrastructures? By analysing distinct care regimes, we first examine specific characteristics of the socio‐spatial embedding of caring communities in urban regions. Building on qualitative research, in the second step, we present different attempts at organising community‐based care in the three selected countries.