Care ethics thinks the political

Bourgault, Sophie; Robinson, Fiona

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“…To understand the limits and possibilities of care during this pandemic, we turn to scholarship on care ethics, which takes as its starting point a social ontology of relationality, in which attentiveness, respect, mutuality, and trust are fundamental to building a caring society at multiple and entangled scales ( Bartos, 2012 ; Tronto, 1993 ). The lens of care ethics highlights the uneven power structures traversing gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, class, migration status, and disability ( Bourgault and Robinson, 2020 ), not merely to offer critique and deconstruction, but to also invite and enact a mode of affirmative change ( Beasley and Bacchi, 2005 ; Lawson, 2007 ). Standing in stark contrast to utilitarian- and Kantian-based ethics, care ethics paves the way for thinking beyond power structures as they currently exist across multiple scales in order to think toward a political being that is inclusive (rather than exclusive), addressing the expressed needs of the disenfranchised, as they articulate them ( Held, 2018 ; Lloyd et al, 2012 ).…”

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Fundamentally uncaring: The differential multi-scalar impacts of COVID-19 in the U.S

Lopez

Neely

2021

Social Science & Medicine

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Fundamentally uncaring: The differential multi-scalar impacts of COVID-19 in the U.S

Lopez

Neely

2021

Social Science & Medicine

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“…. For applications in political theory, seeBhandary and Baehr (2020),Bourgault and Robinson (2020),Bhandary (2019),Brugère (2020),Engster (2007),Engster (2015),Engster and Hamington (2015),Tronto (2013),Robinson (2010). 9 Relatedly, care theory has gained significant traction in Europe, with loci of discussion in France, Italy, Czechia, and the Netherlands in particular.…”

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“…Bourgault (2020), Dalmiya (2016), Dalmiya (2002). For applications in political theory, see Bhandary and Baehr (2020), Bourgault and Robinson (2020), Bhandary (2019), Brugère (2020), Engster (2007), Engster (2015), Engster and Hamington (2015), Tronto (2013), Robinson (2010).…”

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From care ethics to pluralist care theory: The state of the field

Gary

2022

Philosophy Compass

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In a moment where needs for care are acute and their provision precarious, feminist care ethics has gained new relevance as a framework for understanding and responding to necessary interdependence. This article reviews and evaluates two long‐standing critiques of care ethics in light of this recent research. First, I assess what I call the pluralist feminist critique, or the dispute over the ability of care ethics to address the needs and histories of a range of marginalized subjects. I identify two forms of this critique: the first disputes the biased starting points shaping the development of the theory, and the second concerns the weaponization of care in support of domination. Although these critiques are well‐established, I draw attention to recent responses that move care theory in generative directions. I argue that the pluralist feminist critique demands both self‐critical transformation in dialog with other feminist schools of thought and a robust account of care ethics' normative authority. I then take up critiques those levied by mainstream ethicists concerned with care theory's adequacy as an ethical approach. I show that recent work on normative authority, conceptual uniqueness, and the grounding of responsibility must be engaged before care theory can be dismissed as “under‐theorized.” In articulating these two sets of critiques and evaluating recent rebuttals to them, I argue for a pluralist feminist theory of care within which strands informed by varying philosophical schools and methods can coexist.

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“…A similar point is made more recently by leading care theorists Sophie Bourgault and Fiona Robinson (2020), who note rising inequalities and power differentials between groups, and the need therefore for a political account of care. (Bourgault & Robinson, 2020). I turn now to discuss further problems with defining care before highlighting the political description of care provided by Fischer and that is applied throughout this study.…”

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An Exploration of the Concept of Well-being In Relation to the Care of Older People

Cheshire-Allen¹

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This research explores the concept of well-being as it applies to family carers of older people and the experiences of those carers in the light of a reworked version of that concept. The study is situated within a broader context of the ‘care crisis’ consisting of an increase in older age care demands alongside a decrease in the resource or care capacity to support demand, resulting in a so-called ‘care deficit’. Notions of ‘well-being’ have become nested within this crisis narrative. During the past five years, particularly in the UK, references to well-being have been explicitly embedded into social care welfare support programmes, and are used to determine and shape how care support services are delivered to carers and those requiring care. However, as well as being ubiquitous, the term is contentious. Its meaning in the care context has yet to be resolved, and in particular, scant critical attention has been paid to the term’s significance in the context of care for older people. This study responds to this knowledge gap by exploring the meaning and implication of well-being in the context of care of older people. This qualitative research study provides a full analysis of relevant theory, policy and empirical research addressing well-being and family carers. The central research question is: What is well-being in the context of family care of older people, and why does it matter? The research question is explored through an extended critical engagement with relevant well-being and care theoretical foundations (Nussbaum, 2011; Tronto, 2013) and through a policy analysis of the Social Services and Well-being Act (Wales) 2014. A novel theoretical framework founded upon a social justice perspective and drawing upon critical care ethics and the capability approach is developed. Through critical engagement with the latent meaning of well-being, I argue that the mainstream conception in the context of care is narrow and reductive. Based upon and reflecting ideas about older age and care that mute the value of care as an essential component of all human life and, have the potential in practice to limit and damage family carers’ lives and life chances. In the latter part of the thesis, this framework is applied to primary data gathered through thirty qualitative semi-structured interviews with family carers of older people in Wales. The analysis explores how ‘well-being’ as an enduring ideal defining what it means to live a ‘good life’ interacts with how care in older age is understood. The analysis identifies the key themes of well-being as a multidimensional and relational idea, freedom, choice, vulnerability and dependency. From these findings, I suggest that there is value in theorising an imperfect conception of well-being that acknowledges decline and dependence, particularly in older age care. Furthermore, I suggest a reformulation of well-being in the context of older age care, based upon acknowledging relationality, inequalities and socio-political and cultural contexts. Such a conception, I argue, has the potential to provide a firmer basis on which to articulate and tackle well-being within social care policy and to combat harmful assumptions about the place of care of older people within those systems and the value of caring relationships themselves.

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Care ethics thinks the political

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Fundamentally uncaring: The differential multi-scalar impacts of COVID-19 in the U.S

Fundamentally uncaring: The differential multi-scalar impacts of COVID-19 in the U.S

From care ethics to pluralist care theory: The state of the field

An Exploration of the Concept of Well-being In Relation to the Care of Older People

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