A Critical Ethics of Care Perspective on Refugee Income Generation: Towards Sustainable Policy and Practice in Zimbabwe’s Tongogara Camp

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
Raymond Taruvinga ◽  
Dorothee Hölscher ◽  
Antoinette Lombard
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Income Generation ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Sustainable Policy ◽  
Critical Ethics

A Feminist Practical Ethics of Care

2018 ◽  
pp. 558-572
Author(s):  
Fiona Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Care Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Moral Framework ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Practical Ethics ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The Voice

This chapter builds a picture of a critical, feminist ethics of care as a feminist practical ethics for international relations. It focuses on care ethics as a moral framework for addressing the challenges of humanitarianism—in a manner that foregrounds human needs while not depoliticizing or taking for granted the category of “human.” A care ethics approach furthers the transformative aims of feminism, while refusing to cast “women-and-children” as vulnerable victims in need of protection. The ethics of care also offers a substantive focus for policy and practice around diverse and competing needs for care. Far from confining women to their roles as carers, this approach exposes patterns of gender inequality in care practices, while retaining a focus on the contribution of the voice and labour of care—in multiple and diverse forms—for all social groups and communities.

Resisting hierarchies through relationality in the ethics of care

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Care Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Gender Essentialism ◽  
Carol Gilligan ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Critical Ethics

This article explores recent charges of Western-centrism and gender essentialism in care ethics. In response to these charges, and informed by the work of Carol Gilligan, I argue for a view of care ethics that regards it not primarily as a normative theory advocating for care and care workers, but as a critical ethics that voices and enacts resistance to Cartesian splits and hierarchies. These are not just gender hierarchies; rather, care ethics resists all binaries that divide people into categories and separate them from others, and, indeed, from themselves.

scholarly journals ‘Lockdown's changed everything’: Mothering adult children in prison in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 026455052110508
Author(s):  
Kelly Lockwood
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Prison Systems ◽  
The Uk

The COVID-19 pandemic occurred at a time when families of prisoners were gaining visibility in both academia and policy. Research exploring the experiences of families of prison residents has tended to focus on intimate partners and children, despite parents of those in prison being more likely than partners or children to maintain contact. The small body of work focusing on parents has identified their continued care for their children and highlights the burden of providing this care. With the ethics of care posing an ideological expectation on women to provide familial care, the care for adult children in custody is likely to fall to mothers. However, with restricted prison regimes, the pandemic has significantly impeded mothers’ ability to provide this ‘care’. Adopting a qualitative methodology, this paper explores the accounts of mothers to adult children in custody during the pandemic across two UK prison systems, England and Wales, and Scotland; exploring the negotiation of mothering in the context of imprisonment and the pandemic and highlighting important lessons for policy and practice.

scholarly journals Toward a Muslim Ethics of Care: Leadership in American Islamic schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
Amaarah DeCuir
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Islamic Schools ◽  
Expression Of Emotion ◽  
Cultural Affirmation ◽  
Critical Ethics

In this empirical study, I describe how Muslim women leading American Islamic schools enact a critical ethics of care framework in their leadership work. As previous critical studies indicate, this research moves beyond caring as an expression of emotion to the work of caring that transforms a community into one that can challenge inequities by building a climate of cultural affirmation. Through an analysis of qualitative interviews of such women, I advance a concept of Muslim ethics of care that communicates the caring work of school leaders rooted in establishing equity. The following four themes form the foundation of this conceptual framework: (a) caring to lead with equitable school practices; (b) caring as resistance to oppression, (c) caring through nurturing often described as “other mothering,” (d) and caring as an Islamic obligation. This study places these leaders’ voices within the broader context of a critical ethics of care framework, thereby demonstrating the role of faith-marginalized community leaders as social justice advocates.

Mortality and morality: ageing and the ethics of care

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIZ LLOYD
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Social Gerontology ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Care Approach

This paper focuses on the circumstances of death and dying in old age. It considers the ways in which social policies and social gerontology reflect the values of independence, autonomy and citizenship, and it considers the implication of these values for older people who are dependent on others for care and support at the end-of-life. It discusses the complexity of the relationship between ageing and dying, by exploring recent research from the fields of social gerontology and the sociology of death and dying. Arguing that a long-term perspective is required to understand fully the circumstances of older people's deaths, it analyses the third age/fourth age dichotomy as a conceptual model. The task of developing knowledge about the links between ageing and dying requires consideration of moral and ethical principles. The article examines the conceptual frameworks developed by feminists who argue for an ethics of care as a central analytic referent in social policy. The feminist ethics-of-care approach provides a powerful critique of the moral framework of independence and autonomy as characterised in contemporary policies and practices. Feminist ethicists argue that the inter-relatedness of human beings and the importance of the social context have been overlooked in the preoccupation with individual rights – as reflected more generally in policies and social life. It is argued in the paper that the need for care at the end-of-life highlights these shortcomings. The feminist ethics of care has considerable potential to illuminate our understanding of dependency and care, and to generate both new approaches to policy and practice in health and social care and theoretical perspectives in gerontology.

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