The goal of this research axis is to contribute to the reflections of ethics of care theorists. We will explore, amongst others, the following themes: gender injustices and work (remunerated work or non-remunerated); insecurity and vulnerability; commodification of the work of care; the contribution of feelings in moral judgements and the work of care (empathy, pity, disgust, resentment); the relation between care of the self and care of others; strengths and weaknesses of the liberal conception of autonomy and justice; care and internationality; affinities between ethics of care and the ethics of hospitality and charity. Finally, this axis will attempt to reflect on what could constitute political institutions, public policies, democratic practices and a providence-State based on the ethics of care.
Ethics of care
Since its creation in moral psychology in the 1980s, the ethics of care has been greatly politicised and has become a field of study in and of itself - a field resolutely interdisciplinary that marries sociology of work, gender studies, political science, philosophy, psychology, nursing, and literature.
Research axis
Director
- Sophie Bourgault, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
Research Associates
- Sophie Cloutier, Associate Professor, School of Public Ethics, Saint-Paul University
- Valérie Daoust, Professeure adjointe, Département de philosophie, Université d’Ottawa
- Naima Hamrouni, Professeure associée, Département de science politique, Université Laval
- Monique Lanoix, Associate Professor, School of Public Ethics, Saint-Paul University
- Julie Paquette, Assistant Professor, School of Public Ethics, Saint-Paul University
- Claude Parthenay,Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
- Julie Perreault, Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa
- Fiona Robinson, Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
- Stéphanie Mayer, Guest Researcher, School of Political Studies & CIRCEM, University of Ottawa