Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege: Critical Care Ethics Perspectives (Carework in a Changing World)

By: Andrea Doucet and Sophie Bourgault and Vivienne Bozalek and Vrinda Dalmiya and Maggie FitzGerald and Christopher Paul Harris and Christine Koggel and Marie Garrau and Riikka Prattes and Eva Jewell and Vanessa Watts and Emilie Dionne and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Alistair Niemeijer and Merel Visse

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Synopsis: 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 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 decentering 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 various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 230 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781978835023
Related ISBNs:: 9781978835061, 9781978835030
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 09/13/24
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine
Grade Levels:: College Freshman
Reading Age:: 18 and up
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sophie Bourgault
Edited by:: Maggie FitzGerald
Edited by:: Fiona Robinson