In this new publication, Professor Wendy Harcourt offers the first incisive open access overview of how the lively feminist debates on care, in both minority and majority worlds, are crucial for critical development studies.
In Conundrums of Care, Wendy Harcourt adopts an intentionally open and readable style to ensure its technical terms are understood.
Each chapter starts by narrating nonfictional, on-the-ground stories-stories selected from different places, peoples and histories-in order to show how care is understood in feminist economic debates on key subjects such as
- social reproduction analysis
- interspecies relations in posthumanism
- environmental justice in feminist political ecology
- reciprocity and accountability in postdevelopment and decolonialism.
In each chapter, these sketches are then fleshed out through a critical survey of influential thinkers and activists who adopt ecofeminist, feminist political ecology, critical indigenous studies, transition studies, postdevelopment and decolonial approaches to development.
In her review of the book, Professor Kelly Dombroski commented: 'Wendy Harcourt's latest offering is a deeply considered feminist and anticolonial reflection on care across a lifetime. With humility, grace and skill, she guides us through a series of deeply theoretical, carefully embodied, and clearly articulated "conundrums of care". The book is a soulful contemplation of care that offers both a challenge and a balm for the thoughtful activist scholar.'
Available on open access: Conundrums of Care
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