Editorial: The Caring Organisation

Child & Family Social Work, 2002

childhood & philosophy, 2020

Este artigo tem como objetivo considerar as implicacoes da teoria da etica do cuidado de Noddings para projetos amigo da crianca e seus pressupostos filosoficos subjacentes. Explica-se que esta teoria com sua enfase nas necessidades e direitos das criancas e, mais importante, a enfase na relacao de cuidado e no encontro de cuidado indica como os principais conceitos e ideias de Noddings podem ser levados em consideracao na exploracao dos desafios da implementacao de projetos amigaveis as criancas. Portanto, os principais conceitos da teoria da etica do cuidado incluindo necessidade e direito, empatia e simpatia, receptivo e projetivo, cuidado e cuidado, necessidades expressas e inferidas foram investigadas considerando sua conexao com a origem e o destino do amigo da crianca projetos. Consequentemente, uma serie de questoes foram formuladas para ilustrar os desafios teoricos que sao colocados na implementacao de qualquer projeto amigo da crianca. Essas perguntas tambem foram categor...

Demeter Press, 2019

The work ethics of capitalism demand growth, but what kind of growth, and what is growth? Several work places, wanting to look attractive to the public, brand themselves as a "Family". This points to the alluring qualities embedded in the word. But close scrutiny of the actual practices employed demonstrates cut throat competition which creates alienation and suffering. Many have realized the toxicity of work place economic ethics, and are looking for alternative models. In this chapter I propose The Mother Body Model as a source of (visual and scientific) information about human dependency and interconnection. If we dare stop evading the mother body by erasing it from our CV's, and start treating it as a source of knowledge, a caring and sustainable option is right in front of our eyes.

Journal of Childhood Studies, 2020

This article uses a multispecies inquiry to research the relations between human children and other-than-human animals, specifically, a piglet, in a home-based early childhood setting. The focus of this work is to activate critical posthumanism and common worlds scholarship to consider the ethics of relations of care in which the fate of the cared-for is uncertain. I draw on Puig de la Bellacasa’s theory of care to consider the implications of our school community’s care for the piglet, which was offered freely and in full awareness of uncertain consequences and precarious futures.

Medicine Studies, 2012

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Using five different child-sacrifice cases, I argue that the relationship between the ethics of care and the ethics of justice is not that one is wholly right while the other is morally wrong or irrelevant, or that one somehow has priority over the other, or that one is supererogatory while the other is required, or that one is a role ethic while the other is a real ethic, or that they are equivalent. Instead, I propose that the ethics of justice and care are simply descriptions of the virtues of justice and care, understood richly and broadly. Each prescribes perceptions, values, self-conceptions, etc. as well as actions and passions in every sphere of human life. Like other actual (rather than idealized) virtues, justice and care sometimes conflict with each other. They demand incompatible actions, passions, perceptions, etc. The available options in conflict situations feel both right and wrong because they are admirably immoral acts and/or dirty hands acts. I argue that these conflicts do not undermine the primacy, practicality or consistency of morality.

Since children often become closely attached to their care-givers and care entails some kind of reciprocity can be seen (see e.g.. Weisner 1997), it is important to study this relationship as the relatedness between the involved persons are changing. Secondly, research must move beyond the indication of relationships in general terms e.g., matrilateral relatives increasingly care for orphaned kin and differences between matrilateral and patrilateral relatives caring for orphans, to explore in depth the relationship between care-givers and care-recipients (see e.g. Bledsoe 1995, Goody 1982, Whyte and Whyte 2002).

Genealogy 2019, 3(2), 16., 2019

Over the past fifty years, public care for children in England has undergone a significant transformation moving almost exclusively towards foster care as the preferred mode of delivery. The most recent data from the Department for Education for the year ending 31 March 2018, reported that 73% of all Looked After Children (LAC) were placed in foster care with just 8% in residential placements. Compared to an almost even split of 45% of children in Foster Care (or ‘boarded out’) and 42% of children in residential care in 1966, the scale of this shift becomes apparent. This transformation has taken place in the context of a social policy discourse promoted by successive governments, which has privileged foster care as the most suitable place for children needing out-of-home public care. The main argument in this article is that the rationale for the state’s growing interest in children (in particular those children who are considered a social problem) and the emerging social policy solutions, i.e., foster care, are driven by particular political and economic agendas which have historically paid little attention to the needs of these children and young people. This article explores the relationship between the state, the child and their family and the drivers for this transformation in children’s public care making use of a genealogical approach to identify the key social, political and historical factors, which have provided the context for this change. It examines the increasing interest of the state in the lives of children and families and the associated motivation for the emerging objectification of children. The role of the state in locating the family as the ideal place for children’s socialisation and moral guidance will be explored, with a focus on the political and economic motivations for privileging foster care. Consideration will also be paid to the potential implications of this transformation for children and young people who require public care.

International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022

Anthropology of Work Review, 2017

This article examines maternalism in the Czech Republic by exploring how waged and unwaged forms of caring work were framed through discourses of women's innately caring nature in the late twentieth century. Present-day hospital volunteering programmes, which bring female, lay volunteers onto hospital wards to provide unwaged care to patients, are inscribed by maternalist tropes historically associated with domestic work and family care, rather than the neutral expertise associated with female waged care workers in public, institutional settings. The article assesses the contemporary reinvention of maternalist discourses and their capacity to mobilise unwaged caring labour. For much of the twentieth century the right of mothers to public resources and recognition for the care they provide was enshrined within redistributive systems of both liberal capitalist and state socialist European nation states. In many cases these rights and provisions for mothers were a result of the successes of earlier nineteenth-century campaigns of bourgeois and working-class women for greater social and economic protections for mothers and children. 1 Founded on the view that women were naturally suited to care giving, these maternalist forms of entitlement became embedded within the burgeoning welfare bureaucracies of the twentieth century, affording a minimum level of security for women and their children, whilst also sustaining and naturalising a highly gendered division of caring labour in industrial societies. Yet by the late twentieth century a clear shift away from these policies had become discernible, as governments of advanced economies in Europe and beyond adopted measures encouraging increased labour market participation amongst women generally, and mothers particularly. Mothers' entitlement to public resources has been eclipsed by a resurgent emphasis on women as workers. This has been championed across a broad range of political constituencies, from feminist campaigns for gender equality in employment, to neoliberal policy agendas aiming to reduce 'welfare dependency' amongst certain groups of women, notably poor single mothers. 2

Journal of Business & Society, 1997

The Childless Corporation: Where does the Family Fit in the Employee's Life? We will argue that "ghettoization" of child care issues stems from the intense compartmentalization regarding who is to deal with such issues. That these issues are ghettoized flies in the face of what we know about the great overlap between job satisfaction and family life stress and the need to aid employees in maintaining stable childcare arrangements.

Public Policy Research, 2008

International Social Work, 2010

This study takes a participatory research approach to build a single case study from three interviews undertaken with one individual who had experienced being in care first-hand, and who has subsequently been employed in the care system. Interview material was thematically analysed. Critical discussions generated suggestions relating to concerns expressed about highly regulated approaches to care and how continuity of care might be improved through enhanced recruitment processes.

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