Author Meets Readers | Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege: Critical Care Ethics Perspectives
Thursday, November 28th, 2024 at 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
- In-person event
- Irene’s Pub Restaurant, Ottawa, ON, K1S 3W4
Author Meets Readers invites Carleton students and the community to join an informal discussion on new books published by members of the Carleton University Faculty of Public and Global Affairs.
About the Book
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.
Editors
Fiona Robinson is a professor of political science at Carleton University, Canada. She is the author of Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, and International Relations, The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security, and the coeditor, with Rianne Mahon, of Feminist Ethics and Social Politics: Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care.
Maggie Fitzgerald is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics.
Sophie Bourgault is an associate professor of political theory at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the coeditor of four edited volumes on care and was a guest coeditor for a special issue on gender, work, and justice (Politique et Sociétés, 2016) and for The International Journal of Care and Caring (2020; with F. Robinson).
Panelists
Monique Lanoix is an associate professor in the faculty of philosophy at St. Paul University and the director of the School of Ethics, Social Justice, and Public Service. She has published on care work, care and public health, disability, and dance and co-edited a book, Aging in an Aging Society: Critical Reflections, with Iva Apostolova (2019). She is currently the principal investigator on a federally funded grant (SSHRC) looking at the ethical issues encountered by home care aides.
Mélissa Alig works at the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW-ICREF) www.criaw-icref.ca, where she is fortunate to collaborate with and learn from feminists in Canada and around the world. She has co-authored CRIAW-ICREF publications on building feminist intersectional solidarity and examining the rise of regressive and anti-feminist movements in Canada. Mélissa is currently pursuing a master’s degree in political economy at Carleton University, where her research focuses on the governance and distribution of Canadian state funds to feminist organizations and how this impacts their capacity to push for social change.