Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

Critical Care Ethics Perspectives
Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women’s moral experiences were not reflected in the dominant, masculinist approaches to ethics, which were centered on a rational, disembodied, atomistic moral subject. Care ethics challenged this model by positing ethics as relational, contextualized, embodied, and realized through practices rather than principles. Over the past decades, many care ethics scholars have sought to further this project by considering care politically and epistemologically, in relation to various intersecting hierarchies of power and knowledge.

This book advances this project by discussing the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege and by considering how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter with non-Western philosophical traditions and alternative epistemologies. Written by scholars from different countries, disciplines, and intellectual traditions, the volume offers original care ethics contributions on epistemic injustice, privileged irresponsibility, ecofeminism, settler colonialism, social movements such as BLM, and various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.

Contributor: Sophie Bourgault (Edited by), Maggie FitzGerald (Edited by), Fiona Robinson (Edited by), Christine Koggel (Contributions by), Sophie Bourgault (Contributions by), Marie Garrau (Contributions by), Riikka Prattes (Contributions by), Vrinda Dalmiya (Contributions by), Maggie FitzGerald (Contributions by), Andrea Doucet (Contributions by), Eva Jewell (Contributions by), Vanessa Watts (Contributions by), Emilie Dionne (Contributions by), Vivienne Bozalek (Contributions by), Masaya Llavaneras Blanco (Contributions by), Christopher Paul Harris (Contributions by), Alistair Niemeijer (Contributions by), Merel Visse (Contributions by)

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