Care ethics, disaster, and climate justice
A relational rights-based approach for the Anthropocene
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 10895331 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Lisa Ewenson (0000-0002-7242-9864, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Kensington, 2052, Australia, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2026 |
| Data de publicação | 2026-03-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcag027 |
| OpenAlex | W7138910030 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 58 |
Accelerating climate change and widening inequalities demand new conceptual tools for understanding how social work can contribute to reparative climate justice. Written from the Australian context where social work remains systematically undervalued, particularly within the disaster sector, this article brings feminist care ethics into dialogue with critical economic and climate justice scholarship to articulate a renewed conceptual framework for the profession. Drawing on Tronto’s ethics of care, Holten’s critique of the devaluation of caring labour, and Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, this article examines the institutional logics that externalize the costs of care and obscure interdependence, thereby reproducing structural inequities. By integrating these bodies of work, I propose a relational rights-based model that positions care as both diagnostic and transformative: a lens to understand the systemic drivers of injustice, and as a guide for shaping reparative climate responses. This model foregrounds responsibility, relationality, reparations, and planetary limits as core to social work’s ethical and political project. I argue that social work in Australia is uniquely placed to influence disaster governance, climate justice policy, and supported community outcomes, and that this influence can be increased if its knowledge, labour, and ethical commitments are recognized as central, rather than peripheral, to just climate futures
Anthropocene · Climate change · Climate justice · Conceptual framework · Context (archaeology) · Economic Justice · Ethics of care · Politics · Scholarship · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Social Work Education and Practice
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Social Work Practice During Times of Disaster
Disaster Preparedness in Social Work
Post-disaster social work research
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The discovery of “unpaid work”
Learning from disaster inquiries and other reporting
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Climate Justice and Capabilities
Nonprofit Care Work as Social Glue
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Social Workers and Disaster Management
Emancipatory decoloniality as leadership in social service organizations
Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations and disaster response
Climate Change, Inequality and Discrimination Law
The Australian Government’s Use of the Military in an Emergency and the Constitution
Queensland’s Human Rights Act
Towards an Australian Indigenous Women's Standpoint Theory
The influence of climate resilience governmentality on vulnerability in regional Australia
Challenges to Creating a Caring Democracy
Climate Change and Sovereignty
Care
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |