Displacement and solidarity: An ethic of place‐making

• Published in: Bioethics Vol. 32; no. 9; pp. 562 - 568
• Main Author: Eckenwiler, Lisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Bioethics; displacement; Geriatrics; Global Health - ethics; Health care; Health disparities; Health services; Health Services Accessibility - ethics; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Imagination; Inequality; International Cooperation; Justice; Landscape; migrants; migration; Moral judgment; Morality; Older people; place‐making; Political asylum; Refugees; Social cohesion; Social Justice - ethics; Social relations; Social Responsibility; Social Welfare - ethics; solidarity; Suffering; Urban population; Urban populations; Vulnerability; refugees; migrants; place-making; migration; justice; displacement; solidarity

Drawing on a conception of people as ‘ecological subjects’, creatures situated in specific social relations, locations, and material environments, I want to emphasize the importance of place and place‐making for basing, demonstrating, and forging future solidarity. Solidarity, as I will define it he...