Jacques Rancière and Care Ethics: Four Lessons in (Feminist) Emancipation
This paper proposes a conversation between Jacques Rancière and feminist care ethicists. It argues that there are important resonances between these two bodies of scholarship, thanks to their similar indictments of Western hierarchies and binaries, their shared invitation to “blur boundaries” and em...
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| description | This paper proposes a conversation between Jacques Rancière and feminist care ethicists. It argues that there are important resonances between these two bodies of scholarship, thanks to their similar indictments of Western hierarchies and binaries, their shared invitation to “blur boundaries” and embrace a politics of “impropriety”, and their views on the significance of storytelling/narratives and of the ordinary. Drawing largely on <i>Disagreement, Proletarian Nights,</i> and <i>The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation</i>, I also indicate that Rancière’s work offers crucial and timely insights for care ethicists on the importance of attending to desire and hope in research, the inevitability of conflict in social transformation, and the need to think <i>together</i> the transformation of care work/practices and of dominant social norms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-39a6cb39149e411ca19b60e74ef0f19c2023-11-23T18:32:16ZengMDPI AGPhilosophies2409-92872022-06-01736210.3390/philosophies7030062Jacques Rancière and Care Ethics: Four Lessons in (Feminist) EmancipationSophie Bourgault0School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, CanadaThis paper proposes a conversation between Jacques Rancière and feminist care ethicists. It argues that there are important resonances between these two bodies of scholarship, thanks to their similar indictments of Western hierarchies and binaries, their shared invitation to “blur boundaries” and embrace a politics of “impropriety”, and their views on the significance of storytelling/narratives and of the ordinary. Drawing largely on <i>Disagreement, Proletarian Nights,</i> and <i>The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation</i>, I also indicate that Rancière’s work offers crucial and timely insights for care ethicists on the importance of attending to desire and hope in research, the inevitability of conflict in social transformation, and the need to think <i>together</i> the transformation of care work/practices and of dominant social norms.https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/7/3/62care ethicsfeminismJacques RancièreCarol Gilliganpolitics |
| spellingShingle | Sophie Bourgault Jacques Rancière and Care Ethics: Four Lessons in (Feminist) Emancipation Philosophies care ethics feminism Jacques Rancière Carol Gilligan politics |
| title | Jacques Rancière and Care Ethics: Four Lessons in (Feminist) Emancipation |
| title_full | Jacques Rancière and Care Ethics: Four Lessons in (Feminist) Emancipation |
| title_fullStr | Jacques Rancière and Care Ethics: Four Lessons in (Feminist) Emancipation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Jacques Rancière and Care Ethics: Four Lessons in (Feminist) Emancipation |
| title_short | Jacques Rancière and Care Ethics: Four Lessons in (Feminist) Emancipation |
| title_sort | jacques ranciere and care ethics four lessons in feminist emancipation |
| topic | care ethics feminism Jacques Rancière Carol Gilligan politics |
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