Contents
Introduction: The Subtle Thought of Care
Part I. Knowledge Politics
1. Assembling Neglected “Things”
2. Thinking with Care
3. Touching Visions
Part II. Speculative Ethics in Antiecological Times
4. Alterbiopolitics
5. Soil Times: The Pace of Ecological Care
Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
María Puig de la Bellacasa is associate professor in science, technology, and organization at the University of Leicester School of Management.
"Through its observations and appreciations of the worlds in which
many forms of care happen, this bold and synthetic book makes two
transforming contributions to contemporary theorizing as it subtly
invites everyone to appreciate the centrality of posthuman
thinking. Feminists and posthumanists can no longer speak past each
other: here’s why."—Joan C. Tronto, University of Minnesota
"Aesthetic analyses such as these would carry the potential to
generate care within and for the entanglement of relations to which
we all belong, a task that Puig de la Bellacasa’s book accomplishes
exceptionally well."—Women & Performance: a journal of feminist
theory"Matters of Care provides us with a theory of transformative
change that is not anchored in violence and bloodshed, but in the
everyday occurrences of caring with and for. This is a
revolutionary book!"—Hypatia Reviews"Matters of Care offers a dive
into an always-political ethics that is inspired by agricultural
practices and the more-than-human beings wrapped up in
them."—CENHS
"It offers a serious and thoughtful contribution to debates around
the place of politics within posthumanism, connecting a radical
openness to human and non-human others with an enduring concern for
the excluded and marginal. In doing so it reimagines how we might
know the world and places care at the heart of a hybrid practice of
knowing, relating to, and sustaining worlds." —Society + Space
"Matters of Care feels at once like a new beginning for ethics and
politics in more than human worlds, yet also the logical outcome of
many years of work in new materialist and feminist thought. It is a
masterfully lucid and challenging theoretical exposition in which a
feminist ethic of care is extended through speculation on its
limits." —Journal of Cultural Economy
"Her speculative ethics of care joins together “an affective state,
a material vital doing, and an ethico-political obligation” (42) to
imagine how to live in these worlds. The book draws upon and will
be of interest to practitioners of science and technology studies,
feminist care ethics, and posthumanism, among others." —ISLE
"Puig de la Bellacasa’s Matters of Care offers a stirring and
thoughtful meditation on how to engage in a speculative task and an
ethical commitment that brings together humans and
more-than-humans." —Tapuya
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