Social Studies of Science· 2015Q1
The politics of care in technoscience
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Short summary
Care is a multivocal concept essential to existence but problematic when defined or measured, highlighting its inherent elusiveness and context-dependency.
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Key points
- Care is a multivocal concept with diverse everyday and scholarly uses.
- Care is essential for biological and social existence.
- Defining, legislating, measuring, and evaluating care presents significant problems.
- The appearance and experience of care are context-specific and perspective-dependent.
- Care is an unavoidable component of research and citizenship.
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Abstract
Care is a slippery word. Any attempt to define it will be exceeded by its multivocality in everyday and scholarly use. In its enactment, care is both necessary to the fabric of biological and social existence and notorious for the problems that it raises when it is defined, legislated, measured, and evaluated. What care looks and feels like is both context-specific and perspective-dependent. Yet, this elusiveness does not mean that it lacks importance. In our engagements with the worlds that we study, construct, and inhabit, we cannot but care: care is an essential part of being a researcher and a citizen. To properly invite you into this Special Issue, then, we need to say something about what we mean when we write about care.
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