Martin Robb

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332 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Careful Thinking · Care and the pluriverse - with Maggie FitzGerald · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

And I wanted to just ask you a couple of questions about that article, which I thought was another sort of sideways departure for your working away.

So if I could just begin by

I suppose reading quite a long quote, which I think introduces the article.

You write, according to Franz Fannon, the psychological and social-political are deeply intertwined in the colonial context.

Psychologically, the colonizers perceive the colonized as inferior, and the colonized internalize this comp in an inferiority complex.

This psychological reality is co-constitutive of

and by material relations of power.

The imaginary of inferiority both creates and is created by colonial relations of power.

It's also in this context that violence takes on significant political import and

Violence deployed by the colonized to rebel against these colonial relations and enact a different world would also be violent in its fundamental disruption of this imaginary.

The ethics of care, on the other hand, does not seem to sit well with violence.

and thus Fanon's political theory more generally.

Care ethics is concerned with everything we do to maintain and repair our worlds as reasonably as possible.

Violence which ruptures our psycho affective, material and social political realities, seems antithetical to this task.

This article seeks to reconsider this apparent antinomy between violence and care via a dialogue between Fanon and the ethics of care.

Now before we get on to exploring your argument in the article, I just wonder if you can remind listeners who France Fanon was, why he's still important, and why you decided to focus on his ideas as a jumping off point for this piece.

Now if I read the article correctly, you're making two arguments in this piece.

The first is that as you write in the article

Although it might appear that care ethics is inherently and diametrically opposed to violence, since, quoting Toronto, care ethics is concerned with everything we do to maintain and repair ourselves and our worlds as well as reasonably possible.

You want to argue that, quote, care ethics, while highly critical of violence, does not inherently assert that violence is is always and necessarily unjustifiable.

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