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Justice and care in the city

Uncovering everyday practices through research volunteering

Bibliographic Data

ID8360503
AuthorsM J Williams (0000-0001-6017-6655, University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume48
Issue4
Pages513-520
Publication date2016-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/area.12278
OpenAlexW2409181136
LanguageEN
Citations received47
References cited37

In urban theory our knowledge of actually existing justice practices in the city are limited. In contrast, our collective knowledge of the ways an ethic of care is practised is better developed. In this paper I argue for the need to value care in conceptualisations of the just city by mobilising the unification of care‐thinking and justice‐thinking in a way that accepts that both care and justice may (or may not) be practised as situated responses to injustice and neglect, and as other ways of doing/thinking/being the city. I argue that researcher volunteering can help reveal actually existing justice and care in the city in their situated context. Drawing on a research project that documents everyday practices of care and justice at Alfalfa House Food Cooperative, Sydney, Australia, I use the example of waste to explore the ways actually existing care and justice are practised. My aim is to expose how, within everyday urban community organisations, the transformative and relational expressions of care and justice can be revealed through researcher volunteering. By focusing on the actually existing expressions of care and justice in the city we might begin to see how the just (and caring) city is being made and remade in the here and now

Context (archaeology) · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Ethics of care · Everyday life · Injustice · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Situated · Sociology · Transformative learning · Value (mathematics) · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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Citations per year5,22
Citation span2017 - 2025 (9)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 46

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