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

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

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rutgers University Press (September 13, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1978835027
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1978835023
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up