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  • Interview Maurice Hamington for The Deal with Animals podcast

    Interview Maurice Hamington for The Deal with Animals podcast

    “We don’t share a lot of things. We don’t really share much language with animals. We don’t really understand all the instincts of animals, but, we do share embodiment with them.  And so that becomes a basis for imagining what their perspective is like, just like it becomes the basis for understanding what’s going on…

  • Call for abstracts: Philosophy and Politics of Care

    Call for abstracts: Philosophy and Politics of Care

    Call for abstract Care is essential in life, because our being is ontologically relational, vulnerable and fragile. Indeed, care is needed to repair our being when it is wounded, to preserve and protect it, and to make it flourish.  However, this phenomenon, whose essentiality is evident in daily life, has often been neglected by theoretical…

  • CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: CULTURES OF AGEING AND CARE

    CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: CULTURES OF AGEING AND CARE

    Research on care, especially in the context of ageing, has become not only popular but urgent in the last few years. We are looking for exciting book projects that explore questions of ageing and care across disciplines and cultures for our new book series. We invite book proposals for a new series on cultures of…

  • CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS: Ethics of Care Series

    The editors of the Ethics of Care Series (published by Peeters, Leuven) invite scholars to submit proposals for monographs and for edited volumes. This series showcases the work of care ethics scholars from various disciplines and countries around the world; it is also committed to representing a wide variety of approaches and methodologies (political, moral, philosophical, empirical) in…

  • Reflecting on Researching with Care, a new book by Tula Brannelly and Marian Barnes

    Reflecting on Researching with Care, a new book by Tula Brannelly and Marian Barnes

    In the final chapter of ‘Researching with care: applying feminist care ethics to research practice’ (published by Policy Press, 2022) we reflect on what ‘finding’ the ethics of care has meant to us and how it has influenced the research we have done. Those reflections embody what, to us, has been fundamental about feminist care…

  • Call for proposals: CFP Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation, and Revolutionary Possibilities, May 2024 in Paris

      CFP Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation, and Revolutionary Possibilities May 27th-30th, 2024 The American University of Paris, France  On the one-year anniversary of the NEH Summer Institute Philosophies of Care gathering in Portland Oregon (July 2022) which brought together a wonderful group of scholars , they are now inviting others into this scholarly care circle to envision…

  • Seminars in Memory of Elena Pulcini

    Care practices and acts of citizenship in liminal spaces: positive marginality and social change

  • New Book by James Thompson on Care Aesthetics

    What if the work of a nurse, physio or homecare worker was designated an art so that the qualities of the experiences they create became understood as aesthetic qualities? What if the interactions created by artists, directors, dancers, or workshop facilitators were understood as works of care? Care Aesthetics is the first full-length book to…

  • Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions

    Peeters Publishers is proud to announce the 13th installment in its Ethics of Care Series, Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions, edited by Inge van Nistelrooij, Maureen Sander-Staudt, and Maurice Hamington. Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions is the first-of-its-kind a collection of original essays that address the intersection between contemporary feminist care ethics and…

  • Feminist Care Ethics Confronts Mainstream Philosophy: a new special issue.

    A special issue of the journal, Philosophies, edited by Maurice Hamington, of Portland State University and Maggie FitzGerald of the University of Saskatchewan, is now available online.  The issue’s theme is “Feminist Care Ethics Confronts Mainstream Philosophy.” The special issue includes a dozen articles by international scholars of care.  Each contribution juxtaposes care with the works of significant…