Care and security in Vergils Aeneid: an analysis of the politics of empire

Lowrie, Michèle

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“…The ethics of care has a profound and eternal relevance for personal, institutional and political experience. The Latin origin of the word security (securitas) means being without care (se -cura), and contains a deep ambiguity about whether this is care-free or care-less (Lowrie, 2020). Thus, security is at stake and at risk when care is oversimplified, overlooked or undervalued, and when care ethics loses out to other discourses, codes and principles.…”

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Evidence-based practice and the ethics of care: ‘What works’ or ‘what matters’?

Tomkins

Bristow

2021

Human Relations

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This paper considers why and how evidence-based practice (EBP) has become distorted in practice, and what to do about it. We present qualitative data from an action research project in policing to highlight tensions between the rhetoric and reality of EBP, and the ways in which EBP’s seductive catchphrase ‘what works’ is being understood and applied. Through the lens of care ethics, we integrate ‘what matters’ with ‘what works’, and ‘what matters/works here’ with ‘what matters/works everywhere’. This approach recognises relational expertise, practical reasoning and critical inquiry as vital for EBP in practices of social intervention. Drawing on key care ethics motifs, we suggest that care is the ethical scaffolding upon which social justice relies, and hence crucial to organs of security, peacekeeping and law enforcement. From this position, we argue that policing might renegotiate its difficult relationship with the particular, recasting it from something uncomfortably discretionary (the maverick cop) and shameful (an individualised blame culture) into something which underpins and enhances police professionalism. Whilst developed in a policing context, these reflections have a broader relevance for questions of professional legitimacy and credibility, especially within the ‘new professions’, and the costs of privileging any one type of understanding over others.

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Evidence-based practice and the ethics of care: ‘What works’ or ‘what matters’?

Tomkins

Bristow

2021

Human Relations

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“…As Lowrie (2020) highlights, the paradox of caring leadership is most clearly felt in care's negation, that is, as the interplay between being carefree and being careless. A leader's careless absence would be one which inflicts significant damage on us as followers, and which no renegotiation of parental into fraternal identification is likely to overcome.…”

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Where is Boris Johnson? When and why it matters that leaders show up in a crisis

Tomkins

2020

Leadership

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Now, more than at any time in our recent history, we will be judged by our capacity for compassion. (Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, 20 March 2020). 1 In this piece, I draw on an ethics of care and compassion to address a question that has been asked almost daily in UK politics over the past weeks and months, namely: Where is Boris Johnson? Johnson is a leader with a long-standing reputation for being selective about whether and when he shows up. On 16 March 2020, as the severity of the coronavirus finally seemed to register, Johnson agreed to start holding daily press briefings, bringing his previous track-record and apparent instinct for no-shows into sharp relief. Criticism was understandably stilled during his hospitalisation for the virus, but it was not long after his discharge from hospital before the question of his absences came back into focus, with renewed concern about his non-attendance at key COBRA meetings and his decision to go on holiday in mid-February as the virus had been taking hold. 2 Through the prism of the psychoanalytic caring leader, I reflect on some of the explanations for, and implications of, his absences, arguing that they do not always have the same function or effect. Some absences may be politically astute, as a way of promoting an anti-establishment message and/or reassuring his constituents of their own competence and efficacy. Other absences are decidedly risky, because they send a message that he does not care. In times of crisis, the scales of separation versus proximity – absence versus presence – tip differently to normal, and leaders who appear not to care risk triggering especially powerful anxieties about betrayal and abandonment. When it is impossible for us to be care free, leaders must avoid being perceived or experienced as care less.

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“…In a recently published article, Tomkins (2020) has also drawn on an ethics of care and compassion to address questions asked daily in UK politics over Boris Johnson's apparent absence from the handling of the pandemic. She argues that Johnson's absence has been risky, sending a message that he "does not care," triggering "especially powerful anxieties about betrayal and abandonment" (p. 1) and a perception that he is not carefree but rather careless (Lowrie, 2020). Tomkins (2020, p. 3) actually makes a distinction between Johnson's dubious style and Ardern's combination of "empathy, emotional resilience and[.…”

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Teaching leadership the “Day After”, with care

Panayiotou

2020

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Purpose This paper aims to share the author’s thoughts and reflections on teaching leadership in pandemic times. The author has been teaching leadership for nearly 20 years, both to undergraduate and graduate students, by always stressing the importance of humility and compassion, traits that were often doubted and questioned vis-à-vis more traditional, masculine, perceptions of leadership. Yet, local and international leadership during the pandemic brought to the surface the need and the effectiveness of such characteristics, or what the author would call the need for a feminist ethics of care in leadership. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a thought piece stemming from the author’s experiences and reflections. Findings The paper discusses the fact that the most successful handling of the pandemic was largely carried out by female leaders while also asking “why did so many male leaders do badly?” Research limitations/implications With this thought piece, the author hopes to not only engage the readers in a discussion about effective leadership but also on how to teach leadership in today’s schools of management. Originality/value The paper hopes to serve as a springboard for opening the discussion around traditional masculinist modes of leadership that have proven to be detrimental in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic while also proposing that feminist leadership embedded in an ethics of care is what the world needs today.

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Care and security in Vergils Aeneid: an analysis of the politics of empire

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Evidence-based practice and the ethics of care: ‘What works’ or ‘what matters’?

Evidence-based practice and the ethics of care: ‘What works’ or ‘what matters’?

Where is Boris Johnson? When and why it matters that leaders show up in a crisis

Teaching leadership the “Day After”, with care

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