Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State (International Political Theory)

This book reflects on theoretical developments in the political theory of care and new applications of care ethics in different contexts. The chapters provide original and fresh perspectives on the seminal notions and topics of a politically formulated ethics of care. It covers concepts such as democratic citizenship, social and political participation, moral and political deliberation, solidarity and situated attentive knowledge. It engages with current debates on marketizing and privatizing care, and deals with issues of state care provision and democratic caring institutions. It speaks to the current political and societal challenges, including the crisis of Western democracy related to the rise of populism and identity politics worldwide. The book brings together perspectives of care theorists from three different continents and ten different countries and gives voice to their unique local insights from various socio-political and cultural contexts. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Petr Urban is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. Lizzie Ward is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Introducing the Contexts of a Moral and Political Theory of Care (Petr Urban, Lizzie Ward)....Pages 1-27 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 Democratic Practice and ‘Caring to Deliberate’: A Gadamerian Account of Conversation and Listening (Sophie Bourgault)....Pages 31-51 Democratic Inclusion Through Caring Together with Others (Jorma Heier)....Pages 53-76 Why the Publicly Funded Solution Is Better Equipped to Provide Democratic Care ‘For All’ (Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta)....Pages 77-92 Re-thinking ‘Paternalism’ for a Democratic Theory of Care (Marion Smiley)....Pages 93-115 The Nurturing Language of Care Ethics and of Other Related Feminist Approaches: Opposing Contemporary Neoliberal Politics (Brunella Casalini)....Pages 117-136 Caring Democracy as a Solution Against Neoliberalism and Populism (Fabienne Brugère)....Pages 137-159 Time for Caring Democracy: Resisting the Temporal Regimes of Neoliberalism (Julie Anne White)....Pages 161-177 Front Matter ....Pages 179-179 Caring Democracy: How Should Concepts Travel? (Joan C. Tronto)....Pages 181-197 Cosmopolitanism, Care Ethics and Health Care Worker Migration (Kanchana Mahadevan)....Pages 199-217 Understanding the Social Care Crisis in England Through Older People’s Lived Experiences (Lizzie Ward, Mo Ray, Denise Tanner)....Pages 219-239 Women’s Experiences of Poverty in Japan: Protection and the State (Yayo Okano, Satomi Maruyama)....Pages 241-258 Deficit of Democratic Care in the Educational System in Slovakia (Adriana Jesenková)....Pages 259-276 Organizing the Caring Society: Toward a Care Ethical Perspective on Institutions (Petr Urban)....Pages 277-306 Back Matter ....Pages 307-318