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The ESRC Research Group for the Study of Care, Values and the Future of
Welfare (CAVA), invites you to a public lecture:
VALUES IN SOCIAL POLICY: THE PITFALLS AND PROMISES OF CARE
Professor Selma Sevenhuijsen
(Professor of Ethics and Politics of Care, University of Utrecht)
Discussants: Professor Simon Robinson (Chair of Ethics, Leeds
Metropolitan University)
Dr Stuart White (Fellow in Politics, Jesus College,
Oxford University)
Chair: Professor Fiona Williams (Director, CAVA Research Group)
Thursday 27 May 5.30 - 7pm
(followed by drinks reception)
CAVA Seminar Room (11.20), Social Studies Building, University of Leeds
PLACES ARE LIMITED so please confirm your attendance by contacting Steve
Mosby on 0113 343 4872, or by email on [log in to unmask]
Abstract:
The importance of public values and citizenship virtues has shifted more
and more to the foreground in current policy debates. Next to the
discourse of equality, solidarity and human rights - the values of
social justice - a discourse of care has emerged. Feminist scholars in
social policy and political theory have argued that the discourse of
care contains a range of values that together promise a new way for
social policy and social work. It is often not clear, however, how care
can be best conceptualised and practiced, and how the ethic of care can
be positioned in the scientific and political landscape. This lecture
will elaborate and substantiate the core premises and values of an ethic
of care, comparing these with notions of care that circulate in recent
policy papers. Sevenhuijsen will argue, firstly, that attention and
compassion constitute the heart of an ethic of care, and that taking
these values seriously leads to different notions of responsibility than
those that are central in current policy making. And secondly, that this
perspective is not in conflict with social justice, but, on the
contrary, has the capacity to enrich our understanding of what justice
is all about.
Selma's recent books include, Citizenship and the Ethics of Care:
Feminist Considerations on Justice, Morality and Politics (Routledge,
1998); and Labyrinths of Care: The Relevance of the Ethic of Care
Perspective for Social Policy (Ljubljana: Peace Institute 2003).
Dr Keleigh Groves
Communications Co-ordinator
CAVA Research Group
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
Phone: 0113 343 4605
Fax: 0113 343 3771
Web: www.leeds.ac.uk/cava
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