Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege: Critical Care Ethics Perspectives

Author:   Sophie Bourgault ,  Maggie FitzGerald ,  Fiona Robinson ,  Christine Koggel
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9781978835030


Pages:   230
Publication Date:   13 September 2024
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
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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 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.

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Author:   Sophie Bourgault ,  Maggie FitzGerald ,  Fiona Robinson ,  Christine Koggel
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781978835030


ISBN 10:   1978835035
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   13 September 2024
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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“Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege is destined to be the gold standard in care epistemology. The book delivers on its promise to “decenter” epistemology by engaging positions of non-white, non-male, and non-Western thinkers. The insights are fresh and advance feminist epistemological scholarship.” -- Maurice Hamington * author of Revolutionary Care: Commitment and Ethos *


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SOPHIE BOURGAULT is an associate professor of political theory at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the coeditor of four edited volumes on care and was a guest coeditor for a special issue on gender, work, and justice (Politique et Sociétés, 2016) and for The International Journal of Care and Caring (2020; with F. Robinson). MAGGIE FITZGERALD is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics. FIONA ROBINSON is a professor of political science at Carleton University, Canada. She is the author of Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, and International Relations, The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security, and the coeditor, with Rianne Mahon, of Feminist Ethics and Social Politics: Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care.

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