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Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds (Posthumanities)
Maria Puig de La Bellacasa
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Description for Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds (Posthumanities)
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 38. .
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures. Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do, and argues for extending to non-humans the consideration of agencies and communities ... Read more
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures. Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do, and argues for extending to non-humans the consideration of agencies and communities ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517900656
SKU
V9781517900656
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About Maria Puig de La Bellacasa
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa is associate professor in science, technology, and organization at the University of Leicester School of Management.
Reviews for Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds (Posthumanities)
Aesthetic analyses such as these would carry the potential to generate care within and for the entanglement of relations to which we all belong, a task that Puig de la Bellacasa's book accomplishes exceptionally well. -Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Matters of Care provides us with a theory of transformative change that is ... Read more