189 SiteS is licensed CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise specifed. sites: new series · vol 15 no 2 · 2018 Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-id402 – artiCle – COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE MORAL ECONOMIES OF AGED RESIDENTIAL CARE Chrystal Jaye1 aBstraCt In this essay I contend that the aged care sector not only constitutes a politi- cal economy, but is at the same time a moral economy containing multiple contested moral spaces, purposes and standpoints. Global processes of cosmo- politanisation contain moral agendas that link macro level structures with local communities, families, individuals, workplaces, and organisations. Te aged residential care (ARC) facility as a moral economy exemplifes vernacular cosmopolitanisation. Te State shapes the moral economy of the New Zealand aged care sector through enforceable policies and regulations, while organisa- tions and facilities compete in a neoliberal consumption-oriented marketplace. Tose employed in the sector such as nurses and careworkers seek a living. Residents must fnd home within ARC, while their families expect they receive quality care from ARC facilities. Keywords: aged residential care; moral economy; cosmopolitanism introDUCtion Tis article explores cosmopolitanism and concomitant moral economies of aged residential care in New Zealand. In describing the arC facility as a site of cosmopolitanisation, I am drawing on Beck and Grande (2010, 426–7), as well as Rapport (2012), who argue that global processes of cosmopolitanisation link macro level structures with local communities, families, individuals, workplaces, and organisations. Here, the unit of analysis is the arC facility itself. I contend that the aged care sector not only constitutes a political economy, but is at the same time a moral economy exemplar. Tis essay begins with a brief account of the moral economy, then attempts to show how the moral agendas of cos- mopolitanism can be viewed critically through the analytic of moral economy. I then apply this analytic to aged residential care in New Zealand, using the