Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege Critical Care Ethics Perspectives |
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| Editor:
| Bourgault, Sophie
FitzGerald, Maggie
Robinson, Fiona |
| Contribution by:
| Bourgault, Sophie
FitzGerald, Maggie
Koggel, Christine
Garrau, Marie
Prattes, Riikka
Dalmiya, Vrinda
Doucet, Andrea
Jewell, Eva
Watts, Vanessa
Dionne, Emilie
Bozalek, Vivienne
Llavaneras Blanco, Masaya
Harris, Christopher Paul
Niemeijer, Alistair
Visse, Merel |
| Series title: | Carework in a Changing World Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-9788-3506-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2024 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $250.00 |
Book Description:
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Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women's moral experiences were not reflected in the dominant, masculinist approaches to ethics, which were centered on a rational, disembodied, atomistic moral subject. Care ethics challenged this model by positing ethics as relational, contextualized, embodied, and realized through practices rather than principles. Over the past decades, many care ethics scholars have...
More DescriptionCare ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women's moral experiences were not reflected in the dominant, masculinist approaches to ethics, which were centered on a rational, disembodied, atomistic moral subject. Care ethics challenged this model by positing ethics as relational, contextualized, embodied, and realized through practices rather than principles. Over the past decades, many care ethics scholars have sought to further this project by considering care politically and epistemologically, in relation to various intersecting hierarchies of power and knowledge.
This book advances this project by discussing the ways care ethics contributes to the de-centering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege, and by considering how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter with non-Western philosophical traditions and alternative epistemologies. Written by scholars from different countries, disciplines, and intellectual traditions, the volume offers original care ethics contributions on epistemic injustice, privileged irresponsibility, ecofeminism, settler colonialism, social movements such as BLM, and on various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.