Unthinking care

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 care - care's part...

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Published inCommunication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 163 - 172
Main Author Barnett, Joshua Trey
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.04.2024
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Care
Cultural studies
Entanglement
ethics
ethics of care
rhetoric
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Summary: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 care - care'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.
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ISSN:1479-1420
1479-4233
DOI:10.1080/14791420.2024.2343896