Just care! Rethinking the uneven geographies of care

Abstract: After COVID-19 was characterised as a pandemic in spring 2020, care and care work became very dominant topics in public discourse in Western Europe. Against this backdrop, the paper turns to the underlying social structures and conditions of caring relations and aims to go before and beyond the pandemic. The serious occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic and its unjust social effects will be taken as a starting point to engage with social theory to discuss pre-existing uneven ‘geographies of caring relations’ in capitalist societies, which pandemic-related measures are built on. For this, the paper draws on Joan Tronto’s extended thoughts on critical feminist care ethics, emphasising her notion of caring-with as the possibility to trust in caring relations based on interdependencies and solidarity, and argues for explicitly linking caring relations to questions of social justice. This framework stresses the foundations of social injustice and shifts the perspective from individual carin.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2935

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Just care! Rethinking the uneven geographies of care ; volume:76 ; number:3 ; year:2022 ; Erdkunde ; 76, Heft 3 (2022)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Saltiel, Rivka ; Strüver, Anke

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.03.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281722425.529104940908
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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