Care Ethics as a Challenge to the Structural Oppression Surrounding Care

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ID12901807
AuthorsHee‐kang Kim (0000-0003-3737-1916, The Korea Institute of Public Administration, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume15
Issue2
Pages151-166
Publication date2021-01-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496535.2020.1867877
OpenAlexW3119311516
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

In her recent work, Joan Tronto, (2018, 22), explains that one of the reasons why care is an issue of power and inequality is because, among other things, it has not been revealed as ‘already shaped’ in existing social norms and institutions. In particular, she emphasises the fact that the injustice of such social norms and institutions has been tolerated or largely overlooked from the perspective of the privileged. This paper aims to reveal the power and inequality of care that is ‘already shaped’ in existing norms and institutions, as Tronto puts it. For this purpose, Iris Young’s concept of oppression is employed to show that ‘care status’ is one of the important axes of oppression in society, and to clarify the various aspects of structural oppression associated with care. Ultimately, this paper aims to strengthen the possibility of care ethics becoming a normative political theory that challenges and criticises the structural injustice in society

Environmental ethics · Ethics of care · Oppression · Political science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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