Martin Robb
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Now, in the later chapters of the book, you turn your attention to feminist care ethics and you suggest ways in which a critical political ethics of care, with its relational ontology and situated epistemology, might be useful in constructing a global ethic.
And I really like one of the sentences with which you conclude the book, where you write that, quote, an ethics of care for the pluriverse, as developed here, is not simply the application of care ethics.
to the pluriversal context.
Rather building a pluriversal ethics from an ethics of care perspective is building the pluriverse itself.
So briefly, and if I can put it in these simplistic terms, what does care ethics have that these other h theories that you've considered don't have?
Yeah, thank you.
I I hope I wasn't unfair to your treatment of those other perspectives.
I think you you offer a very balanced assessment of each of them, but you point out the positives and the d deficiencies in each of them.
As I say, it's a closely argued book.
Um I would I would recommend people to read the whole thing.
But moving on from the book, in the same year that you published it, Maggie, in twenty twenty two, you co-authored an article with Sasha Gandaharian with the title COVID nineteen.
And you've also written elsewhere about the implications of the pandemic for thinking about the ethics of care.
Now in this article you write that, quote, the rapid spread of COVID nineteen around the globe has devastated many communities, drastically changed political and social life, and foregrounded the ways in which vulnerability is an escapable fact of our material existence.
Wondered if you could expand on that a little bit.
Yeah, and in the article you draw on both care ethics, on Carol Gilligan's work in particular, and on psychoanalytic theory, interestingly, and specifically Slavoj Zizek's reading of Jacques Lacan, to explore the ways in which, quote, the global pandemic tests our ability to accept the throneness of life and our vulnerable existence.
At any moment, seemingly at random, we may have to come face to face with the real.
But our
Lives and our relationships are vulnerable to being ruptured.
Could you explain how you bring care ethics and Lacanian theory together in that analysis?
Yeah, it's an interesting theoretical collaboration, I think.
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