Matters of care speculative ethics in more than human worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puig de la Bellacasa, María, author.

Series:

Posthumanities 41.

Posthumanities 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Caring.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 269 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2017.

Summary:

"To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? InMatters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures.Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do, and argues for extending to non-humans the consideration of agencies and communities that make the living web of care by considering how care circulates in the natural world. The first of the book's two parts, "Knowledge Politics," defines the motivations for expanding the ethico-political meanings of care, focusing on discussions in science and technology that engage with sociotechnical assemblages and objects as lively, politically charged "things." The second part, "Speculative Ethics in Antiecological Times," considers everyday ecologies of sustaining and perpetuating life for their potential to transform our entrenched relations to natural worlds as "resources."From the ethics and politics of care to experiential research on care to feminist science and technology studies,Matters of Careis a singular contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary debate that expands agency beyond the human to ask how our understandings of care must shift if we broaden the world."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction The disruptive thought of care

Part I Knowledge politics

1 Assembling neglected “Things”

2 Thinking with care

3 Touching visions

Part II Speculative ethics in antiecological times

4 Alterbiopolitics

5 Soil times: the pace of ecological care

Coda

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781517900656

9781452953465 (electronic book)

OCLC:

974976106