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International Journal of Care and Caring, Special Issue: The care ethics moment: international innovations
(2018)
Abstract
Maurice Hamington, Guest Editor
This special issue, The Care Ethics Moment: International Innovations, marks a milestone moment in the development of the field of care ethics. After 35 years of advancement, care ethics has matured into an international and multi-disciplinary intellectual phenomenon. The articles in this volume represent a microcosm of the uncanny worldwide attraction to care thinking. It is “uncanny” because the attraction for care ethics defies the discrete modernist categories promulgated by hegemonic Western analytical thinking (Edwards, 2009: 232). As Stephanie Collins contends, care theorists generally lack ‘a unified, precise, explanatory state of care ethics’ slogan’ (Collins, 2015: 3). Despite this lack of articulated precision, the growth in care ethics scholarship persists, in part because care thinking fills a moral, epistemological, and political lacuna that cannot be met by today’s dominant social theoretical framework: liberalism (Tronto 2017). The contributions to this special issue are a testament to the idea that care has a wide and varying appeal that transcends cultural and disciplinary boundaries.
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Publication Date
October, 2018
DOI
10.1332/239788218X15366790166525
Citation Information
Maurice Hamington. "International Journal of Care and Caring, Special Issue: The care ethics moment: international innovations" (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/maurice_hamington/47/