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MATTERS OF CARE - MARIA PUIG DE LA BELLACASA KA...

To care can feel good  or it can feel bad. It can do good  it can oppress. But what is care? A
moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care  María Puig de la
Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care  exploring its
significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds
of technoscience and naturecultures.   Matters of Care contests the view that care is something
only humans do  and argues for extending to non-humans the consideration of agencies and
communities that make the living web of care by considering how care circulates in the natural
world. The first of the book's two parts  "Knowledge Politics " defines the motivations for
expanding the ethico-political meanings of care  focusing on discussions in science and
technology that engage with sociotechnical assemblages and objects as lively  politically
charged "things." The second part  "Speculative Ethics in Antiecological Times " considers
everyday ecologies of sustaining and perpetuating life for their potential to transform our
entrenched relations to natural worlds as "resources."   From the ethics and politics of care
to experiential research on care to feminist science and technology studies  Matters of Care is
a singular contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary debate that expands agency beyond the
human to ask how our understandings of care must shift if we broaden the world.

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