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 Robinson1     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 Bourgault3     Privilege and the Denial of Vulnerability: When Care Ethics Meets Epistemologies of Ignorance, by Marie Garrau4     Learning through Care: Decentering an Epistemology of Domination to Theorize Caring Men at the “Center,” by Riikka Prattes5     Decenterings Elsewhere and the Epistemic Dimensions of Care, by Vrinda Dalmiya6     The Commitment to Care: An Unwavering Epistemic Decentering, by Maggie FitzGerald7     Indigenous and Feminist Ecological Reflections on Feminist Care Ethics: Encounters of Care, Absence, Punctures, and Offerings, by Andrea Doucet, Eva Jewell and Vanessa Watts8     Crafting a New Corpo-Reality in Care Ethics: Contributions from Feminist New Materialisms and Posthumanist Ethics, by Émilie Dionne9     Diffracting Care and Posthuman Ethics: Responsibility, Response-ability and Privileged Irresponsibility, by Vivienne Bozalek10     “Do You Really Want to Know about This?”: Critical Feminist Ethics of Care as a Project of Unsettling, by Masaya Llavaneras Blanco11     The Operation(s) of Abolitionist Care: Healing, Care Ethics, and the Movement for Black Lives, by Christopher Paul Harris12     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 VisseAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIndex

“Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege is destined to be the gold standard in care epistemology. The book delivers on its promise to “decenter” epistemology by engaging positions of non-white, non-male, and non-Western thinkers. The insights are fresh and advance feminist epistemological scholarship.” - Maurice Hamington (author of Revolutionary Care: Commitment and Ethos)