Overview
- Contains Open Access chapter "Understanding the Social Care Crisis in England Through Older People’s Lived Experiences" available here https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-41437-5_11
- Speaks to current day problems, such as the rise in populism and the far right to the loss of trust in political systems
- Presents new developments in the political theory of care and signals future directions in the development of care ethics
Part of the book series: International Political Theory (IPoT)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Exploring Core Concepts
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Applications in Different Contexts
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Back Matter
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About this book
Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Reviews
“Tronto’s analysis is helpful, as it offers a framework to distinguish four emerging characteristics of care ethics that become apparent in this volume. … the volume indicates what a combination of normative reflection, empirical research, and critical power analysis can contribute to making our societies more caring and more democratic.” (Pieter Dronkers, Contemporary Political Theory, January 14, 2021)
“Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State demonstrates clearly how care ethics is equipped to address the struggles and wishes of the age. Petr Urban and Lizzie Ward have carefully put together a remarkable collection of essays that compel us to reconsider what might be required to reclaim and reaffirm our democracies. Framed within the ongoing challenges of neoliberalism and the emerging spectre of far-right populism, the chapters address theoretical considerations on listening, nurturing and time, as well as ‘real world’ care crises related to health, elder care and education. With contributions written by an estimable array of established and emerging international scholars, this volume is a giant leap forward in care ethics scholarship. But it is more than just a book for academics. Everyone who cares about the future of democracy should read this book.” (Fiona Robinson, Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada)“This is an important contribution to our understanding of how care ethics can inform democracy and state administrative practices. It builds on and extends research on caring democracy by elucidating the deliberative, epistemic, and other components of democratic care. It likewise discusses in new and original ways the administrative and agency requirements for supporting caring relations – all with attention to diverse societies and contexts. This book provides state-of-the-art essays on some of the most exciting areas in political theory of care literature today.” (Daniel Engster, Professor and Director of the Ethics Center, Hobby School of Public Affairs, The University of Houston, USA)
“This book shows how much the ethic of care is alive among outstanding thinkers around the world. The transformative potential of thinking and working from and with care as a political concept is convincingly highlighted, while at the same time some pitfalls and biases are addressed. A must for everybody who wants to take care seriously as a basis for ‘living together as well as possible’.” (Selma Sevenhuijsen, Emeritus Professor in the Ethics and Politics of Care, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
“Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State wonderfully demonstrates the evolving maturation of care theory, and its application as an international collection of leading care scholars extends the boundaries of thinking on relationality in world democracies at a moment when traditional liberal theories have proven inadequate to ameliorate social and political life.” (Maurice Hamington, Professor in Philosophy, Portland State University, USA)
“An important book: these interesting explorations show why the new moral approaches of the ethics of care should transform our politics and our institutions.” (Virginia Held, Emeritus Professor, City University of New York, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lizzie Ward is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State
Editors: Petr Urban, Lizzie Ward
Series Title: International Political Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41437-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41436-8Published: 09 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41439-9Published: 09 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41437-5Published: 08 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-6039
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6047
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 318
Topics: Political Theory, Ethics, Social Care, Democracy, Citizenship, Public Policy