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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"feminist ethics"”.
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The "Silent Scream" of "Pathetic Seeds": exploring a feminist ethics of care as a means to broaden the scope of current GM crop risk assessment practices in South Africa
… achieve this, the research methodologies adopt a feminist- pragmatist approach that allows for the use of mixed methods and emphasises reflexivity to allow new perspectives to appear. The research aims to (1) study current risk assessment procedures for GM crops and their historical evolution; (2) …
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Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices
Chapter one grounds the ethnographic methods in feminist theory and claims that the future of feminist work in writing studies must explore new media as a research method. The majority of the chapter examines the connections such work can make with feminist film studies and feminist ethnography, …
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Dancing Change: Embodied Cross-Currents Between Radical Dance Pedagogy and Decolonial Futures
… by Deleuze and Guattari, affect theory, and feminist ethics of care to ultimately critique underlying colonial-capitalist patterns of thought and embodiment, specifically dualism. I explore how these patterns permeate the dance studio space by tracing the history of Western dance studios …
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Piecing together creativity: feminist aesthetics and the crafting of quilts
… gender, class, race, and nationality. I utilize feminist aesthetics, craft aesthetics, and feminist ethics of care to examine problems of artists' appropriation of quilting, traditional myths of art and individuality, the disregarding of utility in dominant aesthetics, the devaluation of …
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Affective Roots: Memory, emotions and viscerality within organic agri-food networks in Tamil Nadu, India
… socio-ecological change. Adopting the lens of Feminist Political Ecology and drawing on the fields of historical anthropology and feminist ethics, this thesis highlights: (1) the enduring nature of epistemic injustice within agri-food relations, (2) how social boundaries are built, maintained …
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Introducing a relational approach to the study of emotions in project teams: The case of a public–non-profit partnership programme
… cultivate situational (rather than standardised) ethics in teams, specifically suggesting the feminist ethics of care as the moral paradigm that remains sensitive to subtleties of situations and relationships.
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An Ethics of Light: The Affective Turn of Contemporary Practices
… proposes an understanding of light in terms of ethics through an analysis of light-based practices. The practice of light designates a technology-based art developed in the 1990s, resulting from a debate on the dematerialization of the artistic object and post-media practices. This research …
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A Feminist Defense of Moderate Moral Intuitionism
… powerful objection to intuitionism, applying feminist ethics and moral epistemology to suggest that powerful social forces impair our ability to distinguish mistaken intuitions from reliable ones. This objection is addressed with an argument, based on work by Michele Moody-Adams and Cheshire …
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Advance Care Planning in Advanced Heart Failure: A Relational Exploration of Autonomy
… multiple case study methodology, guided feminist ethics and relational autonomy, was used. Patients with advanced HF were purposefully recruited from two sites; cases were constructed using data from 19 interviews with seven patients, eight caregivers, and nine HCPs. Constructions of …
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"What I do, it's not little, it's really something": a political economy of migrant and minority ethnic care workers' experience in private older-age care in London, Paris and Madrid
… and brings into the analysis the perspective of feminist moral philosophy (Tronto, 2013; Molinier, 2013). First, the social implications of labour market segmentation are scrutinized in a comparative perspective through the study of care workers’ routes into the care sector, the role of …
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RE-EVALUATING VULNERABILITY IN THE COMMON EUROPEAN ASYLUM SYSTEM: TOWARDS A MORE SENSITIVE AND EFFECTIVE IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT APPROACH FOR VULNERABLE ASYLUM SEEKERS.
… intersectional, and mediated by law. Drawing on feminist ethics, legal philosophy, socio-legal scholarship, and the work of Fineman, Butler, Mackenzie, Luna, Gilodi, and Moreno-Lax & Vavoula, the thesis reconceptualises vulnerability as: (i) universal yet unevenly distributed; (ii) dynamic and …
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Private Life Going Public: From A Personal Documentary to A Dialogical Screening
… ideas of autoethnography, affect theory, and feminist ethics of care to explore how intimate, family-based filmmaking may be transformed into a model of collective engagement. By examining both my filmmaking practice and its subsequent extension into workshops and screenings, I argue that the …
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Family caregiving, home medical devices, and the sociotechnical system: Bringing the biomedical sciences into the bioethics discourse
Informal caregiving by family members has been a substantial, cost-effective resource for the medical system. More recently, complex devices have made it possible to sustain patient's lives at home in more acute situations for longer periods of time. The arguments supporting the use of home care …
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Centralizing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and a Twenty-First Century Ethics
… I examine the relevance of Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity to contemporary feminist thought on the self, autonomy, and ethics. More specifically, I argue that this text has the potential to make unique contributions to these areas of contemporary feminist philosophy.</p>
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Vaccination Nation: A Bioethical Feminist Inquiry into the Political, Social and Ethical Controversy Surrounding the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
… explored further in this work using bioethical feminist theory as a theoretical framework. This study was grounded in the works of Rosemarie Tong and Susan Sherwin.