Les seuils du care. Conditions socio-spatiales de l'application d'une éthique du care
(2023) Revue Philosophique de Louvain — Vol. 120, n° 1, p. 103-119 (2023)
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- (en) The writings of Marion Segaud (Segaud M., 2008) and Joan Tronto (Tronto J., 2009) reveal that inhabitation and vulnerability are anthropological invariants. However, industrial society, through its socio-spatial organisation, has 'perimeterised' (Femia A., Ardenne P., 2021, p. 34) the relationships between human beings, and between human beings and their environments. The hypothesis of this article is that the ethic of care invites us to rethink the socio-spatial conditions that separate and unite us as inhabitants of the Earth: the thresholds of care. We will begin by looking at thresholds as spheres that can potentially be mobilised to provide care - care support - (Courbebaisse A., Salembier C., 2022) and as places that need to be cared for - spatial care - (Lussault M., 2018). Secondly, we will look at the 'right distance' in care practices. For care to happen, we need to strike a balance between forgetting ourselves and forgetting others (Gilligan C., 1982, p. 57-65). Finally, we will highlight the challenges of the socio-spatialisation of care, which encourages us to move beyond the normative binarity between the public and the private, and to move away from a society organised around the nuclear family towards the creation of care communities.
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Salembier, C., & Courbebaisse, A. (2023). Les seuils du care. Conditions socio-spatiales de l’application d’une éthique du care. Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 120(1), 103-119. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/217287 (Original work published 2023)