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By (author) Harcourt Wendy
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Renowned feminist development scholar Wendy Harcourt offers an incisive open access overview of how lively feminist debates on care are crucial for critical development studies.
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Renowned feminist development scholar Wendy Harcourt offers the first incisive open access overview of how the lively feminist debates on care, in both minority and majority worlds, are crucial for critical development studies.
Adopting an intentionally open and readable style to ensure its technical terms are understood, each chapter starts by narrating nonfictional, on-the-ground stories—stories selected from different places, peoples, and histories—in order to show how care is understood in feminist economic debates on key subjects such as social reproduction analysis; interspecies relations in posthumanism; environmental justice in feminist political ecology; and reciprocity and accountability in postdevelopment and decolonialism. In each chapter, these sketches are then fleshed out through a critical survey of influential thinkers and activists who adopt ecofeminist, feminist political ecology, critical indigenous studies, transition studies, postdevelopment, and decolonial approaches to development.
This book—alongside the illustrations, vlogs, and social-media messaging that accompany it online— provides researchers, students, practitioners, and activists with the tools to explain why care is such a crucial concept for critical development discourse.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Table of contents:
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Caring Conversations: An Introduction
Chapter 2. Care Work: Valuing Social Reproduction
Chapter 3. EarthCare: Ecofeminist and Indigenous Approaches to Our Lifeworlds
Chapter 4. Caring about Having Babies: Reproductive Rights and Population Ethics
Chapter 5: Interspecies Care: Learning with the More-than-Human
Chapter 6. Caring Communities: Building Reciprocity through Degrowth and Community Economies
Chapter 7. Connecting with Care: Pedagogies for Transformation
Epilogue
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Wendy Harcourt”s latest offering is a deeply considered feminist and anticolonial reflection on care across a lifetime. With humility, grace and skill, she guides us through a series of deeply theoretical, carefully embodied, and clearly articulated ”conundrums of care”. The book is a soulful contemplation of care that offers both a challenge and a balm for the thoughtful activist scholar.
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Conundrums of Care is feminist political ecology at its best, based on a depatriarchalized self-reflexivity rarely found in the academy. It offers us an inspirational navigation chart for a pluriversal ethics and praxis of caring. Written in a compelling style, often relying on stories from the author’s rich archive of care practices, this superbly pedagogical book demonstrates why care needs to be repositioned as the pivotal principle of all we do –from raising babies to the living Earth, and from policy making and the economy to the academy itself. It explores the multiple conundrums at play in transitioning towards genuinely care-based societies, pushing us to consider the essential task of redesigning our current toxic loops of existence into healing loops that go on making life.
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Blending personal narrative with critical analysis, Conundrums of Care takes readers on an exuberant, feminist exploration of the “slippery” word care. A leading voice in critical development studies, Wendy Harcourt draws from decades of scholarship, teaching, an
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