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**How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm** In a world brimming with tremendous wealth and resources, too many are suffering the oppression of precarious existences—and with no adequate relief from free market–driven institutions. __Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity__ assembles an international group of interdisciplinary scholars to explore the question of care theory as a response to market-driven capitalism, addressing the relationship of three of the most compelling social and political subjects today: care, precarity, and neoliberalism. While care theory often centers on questions of individual actions and choices, this collection instead connects theory to the contemporary political moment and public sphere. The contributors address the link between neoliberal values—such as individualism, productive exchange, and the free market—and the pervasive state of precarity and vulnerability in which so many find themselves. From disability studies and medical ethics to natural-disaster responses and the posthuman, examples from Māori, Dutch, and Japanese politics to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, this collection presents illumin

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Author

Maurice Hamington (editor), Michael Flower (editor)

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781517911867

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities