Globalising care? Town twinning in Britain since 1945

► Town twinning should be approached as a device, a repertoire, and a model. ► Town twinning has often been used as a device for extending care across space. ► Participants have approached care-at-a-distance as an ontological problem. ► Participants have approached care-at-a-distance as a practical problem. ► Some are currently encountering another problem: the problem of care-in-a-hurry.