Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

SOPHIE BOURGAULT is an associate professor of political theory at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the coeditor of four edited volumes on care and was a guest coeditor for a special issue on gender, work, and justice (Politique et Sociétés, 2016) and for The International Journal of Care and Caring (2020; with F. Robinson). MAGGIE FITZGERALD is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics. FIONA ROBINSON is a professor of political science at Carleton University, Canada. She is the author of Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, and International Relations, The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security, and the coeditor, with Rianne Mahon, of Feminist Ethics and Social Politics: Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care.

Introduction by Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald, and Fiona Robinson
1     Indigenous Voices and Relationships: Insights from Care Ethics and Accounts of Hermeneutical Injustice, by Christine Koggel 
2     Epistemic Injustice, Face-to-Face Encounters and Caring Institutions, by Sophie Bourgault
3     Privilege and the Denial of Vulnerability: When Care Ethics Meets Epistemologies of Ignorance, by Marie Garrau
4     Learning through Care: Decentering an Epistemology of Domination to Theorize Caring Men at the “Center,” by Riikka Prattes
5     Decenterings Elsewhere and the Epistemic Dimensions of Care, by Vrinda Dalmiya
6     The Commitment to Care: An Unwavering Epistemic Decentering, by Maggie FitzGerald
7     Indigenous and Feminist Ecological Reflections on Feminist Care Ethics: Encounters of Care, Absence, Punctures, and Offerings, by Andrea Doucet, Eva Jewell and Vanessa Watts
8     Crafting a New Corpo-Reality in Care Ethics: Contributions from Feminist New Materialisms and Posthumanist Ethics, by Émilie Dionne
9     Diffracting Care and Posthuman Ethics: Responsibility, Response-ability and Privileged Irresponsibility, by Vivienne Bozalek
10     “Do You Really Want to Know about This?”: Critical Feminist Ethics of Care as a Project of Unsettling, by Masaya Llavaneras Blanco
11     The Operation(s) of Abolitionist Care: Healing, Care Ethics, and the Movement for Black Lives, by Christopher Paul Harris
12     When Facts Only Go So Far: Decentering What It Means to Know and Understand as a Care-Ethical Researcher in a Polarized, Post-Truth Era, by Alistair Niemeijer and Merel Visse
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index