Care and the pluriverse - with Maggie FitzGerald

About this episode

This episode explores ethical decision-making in a diverse world with guest Maggie FitzGerald, focusing on care ethics and its implications.

How can we make ethical decisions in a world that includes multiple and diverse forms of life, and what can care ethics contribute to developing a pluriversal ethics? What did the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate about the nature of human vulnerability? And can violence ever be justified within an ethic of care? These are some of the questions we explore in this episode, with Maggie FitzGerald. Maggie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with a specialisation in political economy from St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and a Master of Arts in Political Economy from Carleton University in Ottawa, where she also completed her doctorate in the Department of Political Science. Maggie's research focuses on the ethics of care, global ethics and international political theory, decolonial ethics, normative and critical international relations theory, and feminist political economy. Her work has appeared in journals such as Ethics and Social Welfare, the Journal of International Political Theory , and the I nternational Journal of Care and Caring . Maggie…

People in this episode

Host: Martin Robb

Guest: Maggie FitzGerald

Topics covered

• ethical decisions
• care ethics
• pluriversal ethics
• human vulnerability
• COVID-19
• violence and ethics

Keywords

• care ethics
• pluriverse
• ethical decisions
• human vulnerability
• COVID-19
• violence
• political economy
• global ethics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Saskatchewan, Bristol University Press, St. Thomas University, Carleton University, Ethics and Social Welfare, Journal of International Political Theory, International Journal of Care and Caring

Books & works: Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics

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