Journal article
Caring for Whom? Racial Practices of Care and Liberal Constructivism
Philosophies (Basel), Vol.7(78), p.78
07/01/2022
DOI: 10.3390/philosophies7040078
Abstract
Inequalities in expectations to receive care permeate social structures, reinforcing racialized and gendered hierarchies. Harming the people who are overburdened and disadvantaged as caregivers, these inequalities also shape the subjectivities and corporeal habits of the class of people who expect to receive care from others. With three examples, I illustrate a series of justificatory asymmetries across gender and racial lines that illustrate (a) asymmetries in deference and attendance to the needs of others as well as (b) assertions of the rightful occupation of space. These justificatory asymmetries are cogent reasons to evaluate the justice of caregiving arrangements in a way that tracks data about who cares for whom, which can be understood by the concept of the arrow of care map. I suggest, therefore, that the arrow of care map is a necessary component of any critical care theory. In addition, employing a method called living counterfactually, I show that when women of color assert full claimant status, we are reversing arrows of care, which then elicits resistance and violence from varied actors in the real world. These considerations together contribute to further defense of the theory of liberal dependency care’s constructivism, which combines hypothetical acceptability with autonomy skills in the real world. Each level, in turn, relies on the transparency of care practices in the real world as enabled by the arrow of care map.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Caring for Whom? Racial Practices of Care and Liberal Constructivism
- Creators
- Asha Leena Bhandary - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Philosophies (Basel), Vol.7(78), p.78
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- DOI
- 10.3390/philosophies7040078
- eISSN
- 2409-9287
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984288742702771
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