1st Edition

Care Ethics and the Refugee Crisis Emotions, Contestation, and Agency

By Marcia Morgan Copyright 2020
204 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

This book advocates for the philosophical import of care in re-evaluating problems of humanitarianism in the context of the ongoing international refugee and forced migration situation. In doing so, it rethinks the human capacity to care about the suffering of distant others. At a time when emotional resources are running low, there is a need to recast what it means to care, with the aim of... Read more

Introduction

1. Contextualizing the Problem: Rethinking Care Beyond Good and Evil

2. Aesthetic Care: Witnessing the Muteness of Human Suffering

3. From the Aesthetic to the Ethical: Self-Care and Care of the Other as Contestation

4. From Care Ethics to Political Care: Dependency, Misidentification, and Justice

5. Affective Rejoinders: Reconsidering the Role of Emotions and Imagination in Political Care

6. Contestatory Care as Love: Toward an Understanding of Religious Care

Conclusion

Biography

Marcia Morgan is Associate Professor of Philosophy and 2020-21 Program Director at the Center for Ethics at Muhlenberg College, USA. She is the author of Kierkegaard and Critical Theory (2012) and co-editor of Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural (2016).

"[This book] builds on recent developments in feminist care ethics and political theory to overcome the challenges of justly caring for refugees and other forced migrants. Morgan highlights the ways in which care is both necessary and dangerous."
-Alex Sager, The Review of Politics