Introduction to Caring for Liberalism

Bhandary, Asha; Baehr, Amy R.

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“…My account of justice as distributive justice follows the Rawlsian usage, however. Whereas Dworkin's liberalism is about the limits of the law, Rawls's account is fundamentally an assessment of the distributive arrangement, or, even more foundationally, the fairness of the “system of practices” (Rawls, 1958, p. 169; see also Bhandary, 2021, p. 147). Furthermore, the way people are modelled for Rawls is not equivalent to Hume's discussion of them.…”

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A Reply to Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden

Bhandary

2023

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In this article, I respond to symposium articles by Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden. With shared sympathies for anti-oppression liberalism and social contract theory, they urge me to develop the theory of liberal dependency care (LDC) in new directions — respectively, as a form of subject-centered justice, with a political liberal justification, and with a Kantian foundation for ‘private right.’ I respond by explicating the inclusivity that is built into the arrow of care map and the variety of contract theory I advance. Furthermore, I insist that anti-oppression liberalism need not formulate its claims in political liberal terms.

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A Reply to Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden

Bhandary

2023

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“…10 Therefore, although I do assert the normative aim of upending racialized care as a system, and consider a commitment to achieving it essential to egalitarianism, determining how to achieve that aim will require the expertise of interdisciplinary scholars, including historians, anthropologists, policy makers, activists, and care workers. 11 In world W', where racialized material caregiving has been upended, we would see modifications to the selves of people who have long received care without reciprocating it. Those changes, in turn, would liberate women of color because an expansive freedom for women of color will become possible only when we are no longer perceived as people who exist for use by others.…”

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“…42 See also [31,32]. For a range of liberal approaches to care, see [11]. There are forms of racialized care that are not defined by whiteness in Asian and Arab countries.…”

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“…The way I am defining "care theory" is also implicit in Daniel Engster's work (see [9] and private correspondence). For liberals theorizing about care, see all contributors) [11]. For a liberal theory of justice that incorporates care, see [12].…”

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“…2 For instance, an account may endorse care ethics and show how it relates to other doctrines [10]. Alternatively, a theory may evaluate the subject of care from within an alternative framework, as for instance is the case with liberals theorizing about care and feminist liberals 3 [11][12][13][14].…”

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Caring for Whom? Racial Practices of Care and Liberal Constructivism

Bhandary

2022

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Inequalities in expectations to receive care permeate social structures, reinforcing racialized and gendered hierarchies. Harming the people who are overburdened and disadvantaged as caregivers, these inequalities also shape the subjectivities and corporeal habits of the class of people who expect to receive care from others. With three examples, I illustrate a series of justificatory asymmetries across gender and racial lines that illustrate (a) asymmetries in deference and attendance to the needs of others as well as (b) assertions of the rightful occupation of space. These justificatory asymmetries are cogent reasons to evaluate the justice of caregiving arrangements in a way that tracks data about who cares for whom, which can be understood by the concept of the arrow of care map. I suggest, therefore, that the arrow of care map is a necessary component of any critical care theory. In addition, employing a method called living counterfactually, I show that when women of color assert full claimant status, we are reversing arrows of care, which then elicits resistance and violence from varied actors in the real world. These considerations together contribute to further defense of the theory of liberal dependency care’s constructivism, which combines hypothetical acceptability with autonomy skills in the real world. Each level, in turn, relies on the transparency of care practices in the real world as enabled by the arrow of care map.

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Introduction to Caring for Liberalism

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A Reply to Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden

A Reply to Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden

Caring for Whom? Racial Practices of Care and Liberal Constructivism

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