A Critical Ethics of Care in the Context of International Relations

2018 ◽  
pp. 137-168
Author(s):  
Fiona Robinson
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Critical Ethics

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 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.

Vulnerability and the Politics of Care: Transdisciplinary Dialogues

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Victoria Browne ◽  
Jason Danely ◽  
Doerthe Rosenow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

This chapter introduces the linked concepts of vulnerability, politics and care, considering how all three have developed in distinctive ways within and across different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and their complex relation to one another. Concentrating on philosophy, anthropology and international relations, we review the major theoretical contributions to the study of vulnerability and care that have emerged out of work on precarity, feminism, and the ethics of care. We then propose a transdisciplinary approach to vulnerability that places various concepts and methodologies in closer dialogue with each other. These dialogues form the basis of the four sections of the book, each of which is briefly described with reference to the chapters.

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