Care and caring

A Companion to Social Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 454-471

  Conradson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Care and caring care, significance for social geographies; Care as disposition and embodied practice Fisher and Tronto, distinguishing between caring about, care giving and care receiving; Care work, in social reproduction transnationalized in recent years; Care, as a transformative ethic in a globalizing world between individual affective dynamics and collective well being, as a transformative ethic; Care, inviting us to recognize lived experience of others as worthy of our attention; Care, social reproduction and the home social geographic work on care, and relationships; Care, too soft a sentiment contending with matters of inequality and injustice, in a hard world; Ethic of care, transformative with respect to negotiations of social and cultural differences; Genuine care, existing, how it might shape nature of places and social relations within them; Sociological and philosophical dimensions of Fisher and Tronto's conceptualization of care, extended in a number of ways

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858305971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395211.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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