Care conversations

Abstract

The global COVID-19 pandemic, increasing democratic backsliding, and rising precarity have laid bare the need to reimagine and reconstitute the role of academia and public scholarship. For the IFJP annual conference in 2022, we created a roundtable to engage with the opportunities for integrating and attending to a feminist ethic (and practice) of care within the academy, and its roles, meanings, and consequences for research, teaching, and learning. Carrying with us, and building on, Berenice Fisher and Joan Tronto’s assertion that care “crosscuts the antithesis between public and private, rights and duties, love and labour” (Citation1990, 56), we convened to discuss how – and perhaps why – care is now animating deliberations across higher education institutions in diverse contexts. This conversation is a welcome space in which to extend our exploration.

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Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distri-bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2023.2190341

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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/27491