Unthinking care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12739446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Trey Barnett (0000-0002-6433-4232, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-172 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-1420 • E-ISSN: 1479-4233 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14791420.2024.2343896 |
| OpenAlex | W4398207635 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Within and beyond the field of communication, invocations of "care" are rising.In this brief essay, I complicate how scholars of communication relate to care as a feeling, practice, ethics, and politics in two ways.First, I uncover several complexities inherent to carecare's partiality, relation to neglect, and frequent entanglement with violence/harm.Second, I suggest that scholars of communication should bring our distinctive theoretical and methodological insights to bear on the questions about care.Rather than treating care as an unquestioned good, I propose instead that we embrace care's messiness.Doing so, however, may require that we unthink care
| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |