A Care-Based Approach to Transformative Change: Ethically-Informed Practices, Relational Response-Ability & Emotional Awareness. Issue 3 (1st September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moriggi, Angela; Soini, Katriina; Franklin, Alex; Roep, Dirk
• Is Part Of: Ethics, policy & environment. Volume 23:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 281
• Page End: 298
• Publication Date: 2020-09-01
• Subjects: Care ethics -- sustainability transformations -- place-based practices -- relational response-ability -- emotional awareness; Environmental ethics -- Periodicals; Environmental policy -- Periodicals; 179.1
• DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848186
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2155-0085

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Notions of care for humans and more-than-humans appear at the margins of the sustainability transformations debate. This paper explores the merits of an ethics of care approach to sustainability transformations. It argues that more radical, transformative change can be fostered via three mutually reinforcing dimensions: (a) ethically informed practices; (b) relational response-ability; and (c) emotional awareness. This novel theoretical and methodological lens emphasizes the transformative potential of caring practices and as such extends the reach of the sustainability transformations debate.