The politics and ethics of care

Description

Part of the Health and Welfare Group Seminar Series
 

You may find the following questions helpful to your reading and thinking in advance of the sessions. 

• What would be the place of justice in a world founded on an ethics of care?  
• Is care timeless or an outdated notion?  
•  Is dependency a virtue or a social problem?   
•  How useful is gender in the analysis of care?   

Readings for this session (available by clicking the author):

Daly, M. and Lewis, J. (2000), ‘The concept of social care and the analysis of contemporary welfare states’, British Journal of Sociology, 51 (2): 281-98.

Kittay, E., with Jennings, B. and Wasunna, A. (2005)  ‘Dependency, Difference and the Global Ethic of Longterm Care’.  The Journal of Political Philosophy.  13 (4):  443-469.

Dunn, M., Clare, C. and Holland, A. (2008) ‘To empower or to protect?  Constructing the ‘vulnerable adult’ in English law and public policy’.  Legal Studies.  28 (2):  234-253.

Burman, S. (1996), ‘Intergenerational Family Care: Legacy of the Past, Implications for the Future’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 22 (4): 585-598
 

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