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The text discusses Eija-Liisa Ahtila's video installation titled "Horizontal," which features a six-channel projected video of a spruce tree. The installation aims to challenge the perception of trees as passive objects and instead presents the spruce as a sensing body deeply connected to its environment. By experiencing the installation, viewers are encouraged to reconsider their relationship with the nonhuman world and develop a more affective and relational ethics. The text emphasizes the importance of alternative ways of perceiving and relating to the world in the face of climate crisis and calls for a posthuman business ethics that includes nonhuman entities and materialities. [Extracted from the article]

"Business ETHICS/BUSINESS Ethics: One Field or Two?" N. Craig Smith, INSEAD, France Thomas Donaldson, University of Pennsylvania, USA Sareh Pouryousefi, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada Markus Scholz, TU Dresden, Germany Laura J. Spence, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Overview The purpose of this special issue is to address fundamental questions about a possible deficit of normativity in management research, practice, and education - especially as it relates to the field of business ethics and its neighboring disciplines, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability. "On the Harmony of Feminist Ethics and Business Ethics.". [Extracted from the article]

In defining this situation, Garcia provides one answer to Beauvoir's original provocation: "to be a woman is to be in a situation where submission appears as one's destiny" (42). Garcia thus clarifies the nature of the situation - again, the political, social, and economic conditions coalescing such that submission appears to women as inevitable - in which women experience their bodies as both their own and not their own, by which Garcia means always already viewed and judged by men. Following Beauvoir in adopting a phenomenological method - proceeding from women's lived experiences, not from abstract theories about humanity - Garcia demonstrates not only that women can I consent i to (if not "choose") submission but that this submission is I rational. i Why is it rational for women to submit to men?. [Extracted from the article]

This paper examines the activism and care work of Rohingya women in displacement settings, focusing on grassroots efforts in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and transnational advocacy by diaspora activists. Drawing on 43 in-depth interviews and applying a feminist ethics of care framework, we argue that these women's activism constitutes a form of radical care that challenges both neoliberal humanitarian practices and repressive state policies. Rohingya women activists forge networks of solidarity and empowerment that extend beyond conventional humanitarian interventions, providing emotional support and shared experiences that contribute to the social ecology of care for refugee women. Their grassroots work contests the neoliberal emphasis on individual self-reliance, instead highlighting the vital role of relational care in fostering collective resilience. However, these activists face significant risks from multiple sources, including state repression, community backlash, and online harassment. They employ strategies such as ‘strategic invisibility’ and digital activism to navigate these dangers. Despite the transformative potential of their work, it remains systematically undervalued, leaving activists vulnerable to burnout and depletion. By centering the experiences and agency of Rohingya women, this study reveals a complex landscape of resistance, care, and empowerment, offering insights into how refugee women create change amidst intersecting forms of oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article engages Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s conception of ‘black study’ (2013. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Wivenhoe: Minor Compositions.) as an enactment of a feminist ethics of response-ability. As such, this article inquires: how might ‘we’ conceive of study as a response-able practice of ‘collective knowing and doing’ (Haraway, D. J. 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press.) through the confluence of thinking-with feminisms, posthumanisms, black studies, and affect theories? This article experiments with study as an ecological mode of engagement that affirms difference through the decentring of individual identity in favour of foregrounding co-constitutive relations. I do so by proposing response-able reading, sensing and storying as practices of study that might contribute towards new educational imaginaries for thinking and doing higher education differently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sociological research has demonstrated a keen interest in authenticity by different audiences in a wide variety of social domains. The current study joins recent efforts by both sociologists and pornography scholars to empirically investigate the meaning and importance of authenticity for pornography viewers. It relies on in-depth interviews with 302 regular pornography viewers from a wide range of countries, cultural backgrounds, ethnicities and sexual identities. Findings show that most viewers ascribe significant importance to watching sexual acts that they perceive as authentic, although a significant minority does not find authenticity to be very important. I discuss the implications of these findings to sociological theory and research in fields such as the sociology of culture, the sociology of emotions and the sociology of consumption, reflecting on the challenges that demands for authenticity in pornography pose to feminist ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In-person data collection remains the cornerstone of much critical feminist and human geography research, while online and in-person methods are rarely positioned as complementary. Conducting fieldwork during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted me to combine multiple online and in-person qualitative methods in ways that extend methodological debates in human geography. Guided by feminist research ethics, I developed a methodological approach that was necessarily flexible, reflexive, and collaborative to navigate the dilemmas of conducting qualitative fieldwork during COVID-19 and in authoritarian Southeast Asia. Inspired by Guasco’s ‘ethic of not (always) going there,’ I show how online methods can generate meaningful long-term collaborations with civil society actors and build the foundations for engaged in-person fieldwork, if the researcher chooses to ‘go there.’ In-person fieldwork can enrich online methods by providing different embodied experiences and opportunities to build rapport ‘outside’ the formal interview. These research findings are relevant as geographers increasingly turn to online and hybrid methods in a range of contexts where in-person fieldwork is restricted. The ethical considerations outlined here are important for different modes of fieldwork and across contexts, authoritarian or otherwise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how Islamic feminism, with its emphasis on embodied experiences as sources of religious knowledge, has shaped the interpretive community of US Muslim women at the Women's Mosque of America (WMA). I discuss two trends in Islamic feminist approaches to ethics: one that models a Qur'an-centrism, and the other that incorporates the jurisprudential tradition to suggest gender-egalitarian readings of legal principles. In practice, these trends are not mutually exclusive, and Muslims draw on both to engage ethical questions in ways that are contextually bound. As the Friday khutbah is an important site for cultivating Islamic feminist ethics, I draw on two WMA khutbahs as my source material. The first focuses on how to interpret the Qur'an, and the second, on Islamic ethical perspectives on abortion. I argue that the interpretive community of US Muslim women at the WMA produces new forms of Islamic feminist ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The discipline of geography continues to redress historically violent methods and move toward a more ethical and intentional research practice, one hopes. Derived from research with professional immigrant Latina caregivers during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021–2022), this article offers a reflective approach to the growing conversation of more intentional geographical methods. Learning from feminist and Indigenous methodologies as intertwining, this project takes reciprocity and accountability to and with the caregivers seriously. The research combines artistic portraiture and ethnographic methods to center caregivers as knowledge creators deserving of respect, attention, and artistic portrayal. Collaborative portraits, created by BIPOC artists, were part of the fifteen semistructured testimonio conversations and allowed the tangible centering of caregivers as people to be seen and heard. Learning from the caregivers themselves and through reflective work on methods, this article theorizes a process of iterative consent, multilingual methods, and reciprocal knowledge production and asks what a more ethical and accountable research partnership can and should look like. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Media ethics has long been haunted by the question of representing human beings' vulnerability to violence. While journalism and photojournalism have an obligation to report on the realities of violence and suffering in the world, the "spectacle of suffering" is fraught with ethical dilemmas. In this essay, I seek to theorize the ethics of vulnerability to violence in media representation. As a starting point, I argue for the politics of embodiment as a generative process that constitutes differential vulnerabilities. I move then to consider the way embodied vulnerabilities play out in the media, as exemplified by recent events such as the Black Lives Matter and MeToo movements as well as in times of war, from Vietnam to, more recently, Ukraine and Israel/Palestine. This leads to considerations of spectatorship: who looks and who is looked at? How are these relations of gazing related to the vectors of social and geopolitical power? Are images of embodied vulnerability simply media spectacles that reinforce power hierarchies, or are they powerful prosocial messages that might mobilize humanitarian activism? To address these epistemic questions, I propose that the feminist ethics of care encompasses an invitational rhetoric that can guide media praxis. Care ethics is aligned with various religious epistemologies, and because of that, I argue for it as an umbrella framework that has application in a variety of national and cultural contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study challenges the prevailing collaboration norms within academia, which predominantly adhere to meritocratic principles favoring masculine and individualistic values. These principles often result in a productivity paradigm centered on publications and high research performance. We contend that such collaboration norms perpetuate exclusionary practices, limiting the participation of women and individuals who do not neatly conform to the criteria of high productivity. Drawing inspiration from Long and colleagues' work in 2020, and guided by relational care ethics, we developed the notion that collaboration as a feminist strategy represents a transformative process of reflexive becoming and co‐learning, emphasizing connectedness and generativity through care. Our findings highlight that through the lens of care, we transcended differing viewpoints, transitioning from self‐centeredness to an other‐oriented approach characterized by empathy, mutual understanding, and acceptance. Emotions emerged as embodied forms of knowledge, enriching the process of co‐learning and co‐becoming. Based on this, we propose a new constellation of Feminist Caring Collaboration in the academy, emphasizing the inclusivity of diverse participants and their varied skills and competencies, with full consideration of individuals' needs and future growth opportunities. Furthermore, we advocate for a broader acknowledgment of emotions such as satisfaction, joy, friendship, and pleasure in the knowledge production process, recognizing their significance in individuals' fulfillment in work and various life circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I seek to analyze the narrative construction of the reporter's book A Vida Nunca Mais Será a Mesma (Life Will Never Be the Same Again, 2021), which tells stories of sexual violence against women and also features the first-person account of the author herself, Adriana Negreiros. I try to understand (a) how journalistic fundamentals such as precision and objectivity are articulated/tensioned with lacunar and fragmentary traces of testimony; and (b) how adopting a feminist/gendered perspective on journalistic narrative can bring to light traumatic female experiences that, throughout history, have been placed in the background. To do this, I examine the book and an interview conducted with the author in 2023, concluding that a feminist approach to journalism and testimony can open up affective spaces for women's stories to be told. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper combines assemblage theory, feminist ethics of care and decolonial theory to build on recent work in disaster studies that seeks to address the systematic and intersectional inequalities that underlie the emergence of disaster. We argue that Western logics of "risk" do not always have traction with communities, and so researchers must "stay with the trouble" in engaging with tensions between lifeworlds. We suggest that geographical imaginaries provide a means to analyze the diverse ways of being and knowing that are involved in this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the emergence of care as a commoning practice within grassroots movements by focusing on Sōgidan, an activist group supporting rough sleepers in San’ya, Tokyo. San’ya is yoseba (day labor auction market), a historical urban margin turning into a service hub. Produced as cheap, disposable labor in the process of Japanese modernization, Japan’s day laborers were enclaved in yoseba and left without social protection after the economic bubble burst. However, they were not merely victims; they embodied a rebellious subjectivity, actively breaking away from the oppressive society. Despite welfare provisions after the 2000s, many day laborers refused aid and continued to sleep on the streets. Through extensive archival research, ethnographic observation, and in-depth interviews, this paper illuminates how Sōgidan has developed strategies of care to relate to the underclass, the historical others who refuse aid. Sōgidan embodies and carries forward the underclass movement, which uniquely echoed feminist ethics of care. It also initiates the creation of the radical commons, reconfiguring the distance between individuals and collectives, and sharing precariousness differently from capitalist norms. By linking Sōgidan’s practices to feminist ethics of care, this research contributes to opening up new perspectives of care and in(ter)dependence toward the commons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much recent discussion about social justice in archival studies has assumed a legalistic, rights-based framework to delineate the role of records, archives, and archivists in both the violation of human rights and in holding individuals and governments accountable for basic human rights, such as the right to life, privacy, and freedom of expression. Yet decades of feminist scholarship have called into question the universality of a rights-based framework, arguing instead that an ethics of care is a more inclusive and apt model for envisioning and enacting a more just society. This article proposes a shift in the theoretical model used by archivists and archival studies scholars to address social justice concerns – from that based on individual rights to a model based on feminist ethics. In a feminist ethics approach, archivists are seen as caregivers, bound to records creators, subjects, users, and communities through a web of mutual affective responsibility. This article proposes four interrelated shifts in these archival relationships, based on radical empathy.

Purpose: The subject of the article is the problem of object-oriented treatment of human resources. In the author’s opinion, despite the relatively long period of widespread respect for ethical requirements addressed to business entities, the issue of an instrumental, object-oriented approach to personnel employed in companies has not been satisfactorily resolved. The purpose of the article is to show that recourse to the assumptions of the feminist concept of ethics of care provides an opportunity to overcome the instrumental, subordinated to utilitarian goals approach to the issue of social responsibility in the field of human resource management. Design/methodology/approach: The author accepts the approach of cultural constructivism. The subject of the research is axiological assumptions applied to the issue of human resources, and the research method used is a critical analysis of scientific discourses in the field of economics and economic ethics. Findings: The author has shown that to facilitate change through an individual-focused approach to human resource management, it is essential to recognise and effectively eliminate the error of conflating economic ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the axiological framework of economics, which prioritises material utility. Harnessing the potential of the concept of ethics of care can be helpful in this regard. Originality/value: The value of the text is in proposing a – different from the traditional – account of human capital issues and in demonstrating how to overcome the axiological crisis in economics and economic ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores debates among Fabian socialists over the meaning of 'free love' taking as its starting point a conflict that arose between Katharine St John Conway and William De Mattos in 1892. Conway's encounter with De Mattos, it argues, contributed to the development of her understanding of love and its place in Fabian politics. The narratives that Conway wrote in the aftermath of this conflict, including the narrative of her own marriage, attempt to define a feminist ethics of intimacy that manifest socialist principles. The essay claims that Conway expands ideas about love to encompass new ways of thinking about the relationship between individual freedom and communal obligations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This summary discusses the influential work of Judith Butler, particularly their book Gender Trouble, which has had a significant impact on feminist thinking. Butler's writings challenge traditional male-dominated theories in the field of work and organization studies, offering valuable insights into how organizations shape and exploit our desire for recognition. The article explores the opportunities and challenges of applying Butler's ideas to understand and transform organizational life, with a focus on vulnerability, resistance, and non-violence. It also highlights Butler's recent work on ethics, interdependence, and the need to sustain our social and natural environment. The article includes five substantive papers and an "In Conversation" event with Judith Butler, providing further insights and discussions on their upcoming book Who's Afraid of Gender. This text is a summary of a special issue of the journal Gender, Work and Organization that explores the impact of Judith Butler's ideas on the analysis of gender, work, and organization. The contributions in the issue evaluate the avenues that Butler's work has opened up and consider the unexplored questions and challenges it raises. The papers in the issue discuss topics such as the individualization of vulnerabilities in organizational contexts, the ethical potential of art in contesting unequal valuation of working bodies, the experiences of loss in times of planetary crisis, and the survival and overcoming of normative organizational violence. The summary concludes by expressing gratitude to the contributors and hopes that the papers will provide reference points for future work in the field. [Extracted from the article]

This paper is a theoretical introduction to the special issue on care, control, and surveillance. Drawing upon feminist ethics of care, this paper introduces a conceptualization of care that enables us to examine surveillance practices occurring in care relationships. We argue that care ethics is inherently performative and the conceptualization of care as good or bad is negotiated through specific care practices. In this theoretical overview, we adopt a non-ideal approach to care. This framework allows us, on the one hand, to recognize that power asymmetry and even abuse can occur in caring relationships, while on the other hand it still enables us to reject harmful and abusive practices. We argue that, in order to understand surveillance in care, we need a non-dyadic, processual, and relational understanding of care, within which the particular nature of care is constantly negotiated. We believe that vulnerability and autonomy are crucial in the dynamics of care and surveillance. Furthermore, they play a crucial role in defining what can be considered good or bad care: good care acknowledges the inherent vulnerabilities in care and should enhance the dignity and autonomy of care receivers. We conclude the paper by discussing whether and when surveillance and control can be part of good care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the inadequacy of the "four principles" framework in medical ethics and the need for care ethics, particularly in the provision of healthcare to vulnerable populations. The authors argue that the dominant framework of principlism, which focuses on autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice, is insufficient in addressing ethical dilemmas in medicine. They propose that an ethics of care, as outlined by Joan Tronto, provides a more comprehensive understanding of moral practice, emphasizing attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and responsiveness. The authors also highlight the importance of Indigenous voices in healthcare institutions and the need for systems to be responsive to the values and interests of marginalized groups. [Extracted from the article]

This study explores the complexities of developing feminist archives with a particular focus on the 'Feminist Approaches to Youth Sexuality (FAYS)' archive, created as part of the Reanimating Data project (RAD, 2018-21). Through this case study, we explore the ethical considerations and practices involved in reanimating a landmark feminist study, the Women, Risk, and AIDS Project (WRAP), and emphasize the ethical dimensions of reanimation processes, considering feminist ethics of care and risk. We also explore the concept of rematriation, which is rooted in indigenous feminist scholarship. This concept has become a guiding principle in our efforts to return WRAP to its geo-political context. As such, the article is structured into the following three sections: data in the attic, on recovery and rematriation; feminist ethics, on care and risk; and feminist archival praxis, on reanimating and language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the concept of receptive ecumenism, which is a strategy for reform and revitalization within the Christian community. Receptive ecumenism involves self-critical learning and recognizing the shortcomings of one's own church. It emphasizes vulnerability and a willingness to learn from others. The article also explores the tension between strategic thinking and self-criticism in receptive ecumenism and the role of feminist theology in understanding power dynamics. Receptive ecumenism aims to bring about change and unity within the church, but it also carries risks and requires trust and love. [Extracted from the article]

In China, the cult of Guanyin (also known as Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva), is one of the most widespread and influential Buddhist beliefs. In popular dramas, Guanyin is portrayed as a savior who delivers people from suffering and disasters. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, multiple Guanyin dramatic texts on the cultivation and enlightenment of Princess Miaoshan were created. These dramas, including the Xiangshanji, Haichaoyin, Nanyouji, and Daxiangshan, reflected market demand for Miaoshan Guanyin dramas in urban and rural areas that appealed to people of different social classes, including literati and court nobility. This article explores market demand and narrative variations of Miaoshan Guanyin dramas by comparing and analyzing textual narratives and investigating historical information about performances. The data presented focus on three dimensions, namely sacredness and entertainment, cultivation and filial piety, and the functions of ritual dramas. The findings presented below show that the success of Miaoshan Guanyin dramas in crossing social boundaries can be attributed to several factors: 1) Such dramas combined sacred and entertaining qualities by adding aesthetic effects to essential sacred scenes and strengthening the perception of sacredness through stage performances. 2) The embrace of feminist thought and Confucian ethics plus the incorporation of themes about women and filial piety from the Miaoshan legend attracted female audiences and met the demand for ethical education. 3) The spirit of guiding people towards cultivation in Buddhist texts was shifted to delivering the deceased and giving blessings, achieving one key function of ritual dramas. In short, Miaoshan Guanyin dramas presented different social functions and aesthetic features beyond entertaining effects due to multiple meanings of the Miaoshan legend as well as various connotations. The popularization and development trajectory of religious dramas can also be observed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cross-language research involving translation is prevalent in the social sciences yet under-discussed in terms of its ethical impact on participants or the translator her/himself. This paper applies a feminist ethics of 'care' to the topic of translation in cross-cultural, cross-language research. We argue for the importance of emotional intelligence and awareness of emotional labor involved in meaningful, ethical translation between the researcher, translator, and participants. The paper itself is a reflexive conversation between a translator and researcher following six months of data collection involving over 120 interviews and 10 work-life histories. We discuss the opportunities and limitations for more emotionally evolved translation in cross-cultural research, discussing specific strategies for caring about, taking care of, caregiving and care receiving through translation. Applying the 'caring through translation' framework promotes deeper collaboration and relationality between researchers, translators, and participants, grounded in feminist ideals of equitable, ethical knowledge production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the contemporary moment, systemic failures – from climate change to pandemics to political repression – have created embodied vulnerabilities worldwide. I argue here that the increasing precaritization of individual bodies is an index of the political formations that create and condition vulnerabilities among certain populations. Recognizing this, analyses of the conditions of embodied vulnerability are crucial to cultural studies in that they contribute to understanding and challenging neocolonial and patriarchal power and injustice. Feminist materialism and theories of post- and neo-colonialism reveal the processes of embodiment as complex modes of epistemic violence. To reorient cultural studies theoretically and methodologically, I propose the feminist ethics of care as a working framework for mapping, challenging, and changing the processes of materialization at work in unjust and asymmetric embodied vulnerabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade affirmed federal protection for abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson attempted to demonstrate the wrongs of forced gestation through analogy: you awake to find that the world's most esteemed violinist is wholly, physically dependent on you for life support. Here, the authors suggest that Thomson's intuition, that there is a relevant similarity between providing living kidney support and forced gestation, is realized in the contemporary practice of living organ donation. After detailing the robust analogy between living kidney donation and gestation, we turn to current ethical guidelines incorporated in the United Network for Organ Sharing's requirements for legally authorized organ donation and transplantation. We conclude that if, as we—and Thomson—suggest, organ donation and gestation are relevantly similar, then the ethical framework supporting donation may aid in articulating ethical grounds that will be compelling in informing the legal grounds for a defense of abortion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epistemic injustice is a widely discussed phenomenon in many sub-disciplines (including epistemology, ethics, feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy). Yet, there is very little literature on its connection to the philosophy of sports. Here I explore the intersection between epistemic injustice and sports, focusing on testimonial injustice. I argue that there exist clear-cut cases of testimonial injustice in sport that arise when athletes attempt to communicate information. After highlighting the theoretical connections between various cases, I explore the more ambitious claim that sport performances themselves carry linguistic content. This claim allows us to see the biased negative judgment of sport performances in a new light, as constituting a further and distinctive form of testimonial injustice. I show how the case of figure-skater Surya Bonaly can be understood as a real-life instantiation of this form of testimonial injustice. I conclude by explaining why it is philosophically fruitful to understand these wrongs through the lens of testimonial injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document provides an introduction to the legacy of Bernard Williams, a prominent English moral philosopher. It discusses a special issue dedicated to exploring the formation of the moral point of view, with essays covering topics such as authenticity, virtue ethics, and moral obligations. The authors engage with Williams's ideas, offering their own perspectives and critiques. They discuss the importance of personal projects and commitments in shaping our moral lives, the limitations of utilitarianism, and the concept of moral incapacity. The text also examines Williams's views on the formation of the moral self and his engagement with Greek antiquity. [Extracted from the article]

This paper explores the fruitful concept of necessary identity, put forward by Bernard Williams in Shame and Necessity (1993) in order to explain a peculiar kind of social identity. Firstly, we will investigate the foundation of this concept, by analyzing Williams's account of personal practical identity. To this end, we will discuss the role played by luck and necessity in Williams' understanding of personal practical identity. Secondly, we will focus on the analysis of necessary identities by addressing two historical examples given by Williams. In the second part of the paper, we will consider a debate that followed Williams's concept of necessary identity, which was taken up by Margaret Walker in light of feminist accounts about necessary identity constitution. In Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (2007) Walker deepens Williams's position by focusing on the invisible mechanisms of social power and misrecognition that perpetuate the immutability of some social identities; as a model of the perpetuation of necessary identities we will discuss Angela Davis's positions in Women, Race and Class. From a feminist perspective, we will investigate gender identity as a necessary identity which personal character develops within. From a point of view of the affective situation, we are particularly interested in examining necessary identities as a dispositive where emotion repertoire takes place. Dwelling on the link between Williams's and Walker's accounts sheds new light on how personal development and emotion regulation take place within a practical identity that stems from asymmetrical relations of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This document is an editorial introduction to the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. It discusses the complexity of large systems, such as countries, religions, and universities, which can both offer benefits and inflict harm. The issue focuses on religious institutions and explores how they have caused pain and suffering through abuse, while also providing spaces for empowerment and healing. The document highlights two articles in the issue: one on the language used in contemporary Christian worship music and its impact on abuse survivors, and another on how US Muslim women interpret gender equality and abortion within their religious communities. The issue also includes special features that examine the potential harm and healing within religious communities. [Extracted from the article]

This document provides a list of contributors to the Journal of Social Philosophy. The contributors come from various academic institutions and specialize in different areas of philosophy, including gender equity, epistemic injustice, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, and political philosophy. Their research interests cover a wide range of topics such as neurodiversity, decolonization, social justice, and the ethics of AI. The contributors have published extensively in reputable journals and have expertise in their respective fields. [Extracted from the article]

AbstractAn anthropocentric scope for clinical medical ethics (CME) has largely separated this area of bioethics from environmental concerns. In this article, we first identify and reconcile the ethical issues imposed on CME by climate change including the dispersion of related causes and effects, the transdisciplinary and transhuman nature of climate change, and the historic divorce of CME from the environment. We then establish how several moral theories undergirding modern CME, such as virtue ethics, feminist ethics, and several theories of justice, promote both a flourishing of human medical practice and the environment. We conclude by defining an expanded the scope of CME as inclusive of not only patients, families, physicians, and other health professionals but other humans, non-humans, and their shared environment. We then apply this scope and theory to a widely used framework for applying CME, the Four Topics model, to construct a climate conscious approach to CME. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article relies on an ethnography of commercial divers that involves the author's training, certification, and activity underwater to propose an ecofeminist analysis of the undersea (furthermore with the undersea). It presents how feminist environmental theory engages with the ethnographic method of immersion and how underwater fieldwork grounded in feminist theory contributes, in turn, to reflections on the role of embodiment in the production of ethnographic knowledge. This article emphasizes the role of experiencing risky situations (gender-based violence and life-threatening situations) in the research process to address the reproduction of masculinity that is part of the commercial diving training supported by the profession's equipment and technologies. By doing so, the article unveils how participating in underwater activities as part of fieldwork raises issues for feminist ethics, especially regarding multispecies relationality. Overcoming these ethical limits and reconciling ecofeminism and ethnography in the study of underwater ecologies can, as the article concludes, rely on creative methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the contributions of feminist methodologies in migration research over the past two decades. Feminist methodologies in migration studies focus on positionality and reflexivity, radical care ethics, and co-creative methods. Feminist researchers acknowledge the power dynamics involved in producing knowledge and prioritize the inclusion of diverse perspectives. They also emphasize the importance of ethical research practices and the transformative potential of their work. The article concludes by highlighting the need for continuous reflexivity and learning in the production of knowledge. [Extracted from the article]

Swiss author Yael Inokai's novel Ein simpler Eingriff (2022) explores the various meanings and associations of care and caregiving. The novel demonstrates a particular sensitivity to the challenges of care work in nursing contexts and to the relationship between care and harm. This article draws on approaches from feminist care ethics, queer studies, and the politics of refusal to show how Inokai's text can be read as a novel of lesbian development that depicts its protagonist's journey from naïve hope for a cure to awareness of the complexity of care and, simultaneously, from shame to acceptance of her queer identity. Through acts of refusal, Inokai's novel decouples care from notions of a "cure" linked to heteronormative patriarchal power. It thereby creates space for a queer‐feminist ethics of care that is attuned to the needs of others, minimizes harm, and emphasizes relationality and acceptance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This piece reflects on the untapped potential of feminist theories and activist practices to address vital organizational issues and societal challenges such as inequality, sustainability and care for the environment. While we recognize and briefly review the progress on gender issues in organization studies achieved over the last decades, our focus is on identifying the critical and underutilized strands of feminist thinking offering fresh responses to these problems, including decolonial feminism, feminist ethics of care, posthuman feminism and ecofeminism. By way of illustrating our theoretical arguments, we discuss how five different papers recently published in Organization Studies address some of these issues, including the uncovering of hidden entanglements of power and performativity in a global bank and in the beauty industry by paying attention to body and affect, the underrepresented struggles of women in the Global South as they disrupt gendered practices through consciousness raising, contesting gender regimes at organizational social events and, finally, how the social media operate at the intersection of gender and occupation. We conclude by outlining future directions for research as we discuss the contributions of anti-racist feminist theory and decolonial feminist practice to completing the unfinished project of social change while making our scholarship more reflexive and inclusive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text is a book review of two books, "How to write differently: A quest for meaningful academic writing" by Monika Kostera and "Researching and writing differently" by Ilaria Boncori. The review explores the concept of writing differently, which involves writing in a way that goes beyond traditional academic norms and allows for a wider range of writing styles and forms. The books advocate for writing that challenges power dynamics, embraces diverse perspectives, and pushes the boundaries of knowledge and practice. The review also raises questions about who academic writing is for and the potential for larger audiences to engage with academic work. [Extracted from the article]

This paper presents an invitation to feminist and queer sociology to engage more frequently, enthusiastically, and deeply with animals. Feminist and queer sociology that attend to animals and animality stand to develop better knowledge for animals and animal studies and for women, queers, and feminist and queer sociology. Sociologists working from feminist and queer perspectives are also particularly well‐positioned within the discipline of sociology to contribute to and take advantage of the insights of the field of feminist animal studies. After a brief review of what feminist animal studies is, I proceed through three steps to elaborate the imperative for feminist and queer sociology to consider animals. First, I show how feminist animal studies as a theoretical perspective engages with issues that are core to feminist and queer sociology. Second, I center intersectional feminism and lay out how incorporating species can and does enhance our understanding of intersectional processes. Third, I present an ethical call, grounded in the traditions of feminist ethics and ecofeminism, to attend to species in feminist and queer sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this special issue, we ask: What do we see when we look at datafied societies through the lens of care? Following the footsteps of feminist writers, activists, and academics who take care as a vantage point for scrutinising and reimaging technoscientific societies, this special issue brings together scholars from critical data studies who explore what we might learn (and see) when we apply care ethics to the study of datafication. To develop a view on datafied societies informed by ethics, concepts, and practices of care, we propose a move from critique to care in social studies of data-driven technologies. We specifically identify five moves in which a care lens provides a new perspective when studying datafication and datafied societies: (1) a move from data-driven technologies to socio-digital care arrangements, (2) a move from data science to data work and care, (3) a move from technical to situated modes of knowledge production, (4) a move from studying harms of datafication to the politics of vulnerability, and (5) a move towards building communities of care. Discussing how critical data studies and care ethics can mutually contribute to each other, this collection explores how this way of thinking can inform new ways of seeing datafied societies and imagine living and being well in more than human worlds nurtured by care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Empowerment in healthcare is becoming increasingly popular, including in obstetrics, because of its benefits for both individual health and health promotion. Many authors and organizations, such as the World Health Organization, advocate it as a means of engaging communities in the adoption of health-promoting behaviors and fostering patient-centered care. It aims to enable patients to assert their decisions and choices while respecting their personal values. This desire to respect the uniqueness and autonomy of each individual echoes a number of ethical principles and theories. In this article, the authors aim to answer the question, How can the concept of empowerment in healthcare contribute to bioethics? They argue that it has important links with feminist bioethics, notably the theory of relational autonomy, as well as with the capability theory of economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: This paper analyzes a remembered shared experience of cocurricular designing and coteaching an experiential learning pilot project in a university study abroad program (SAP) that emphasized social justice. Purpose: We look back because the pilot program is a significant demonstration of what complexities can arise when feminist educators bring their own politics and pedagogies to experiential learning and study abroad education contexts; we understand this as valuable because "experience" broadly is complex. Memory is crucial to feminist educators because it indicates the development of care, ethics, pedagogy, politics, and priorities, and so, we ask: what pedagogical insights can be gained through revisiting our enmeshed personal/professional memories of cocurricular designing and coteaching an experiential learning series for study abroad students? Methodology: We use self-study and memory work to analyze memory objects (curriculum materials) and narratives (of teaching) to explore this pedagogical work and highlight generative tensions that emerged while employing a critical feminist approach to work not initially conceptualized with this framing. Findings: We uncovered three key tensions: personal, community, and racial that troubled emergent issues related to difference, discourse, and positionality. Implications: This project offers pedagogical insights into how oppression and inequality may enter experiential learning and study abroad spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is a review of the book "Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800" by Linda Van Netten Blimke. The book explores the use of sentimental travel writing by four 18th-century women travel writers to express their political viewpoints on topics such as British nationalism, imperialist authority, American colonialists, French revolutionaries, and gender norms. The review praises the book for its lively writing, intriguing travelogues, well-grounded historical interpretations, and thought-provoking arguments. It also highlights the relevance of the book to contemporary interests in personalized politics and historical fiction. The review suggests that the book could have benefited from a feminist perspective and deeper exploration of feminist frameworks. [Extracted from the article]

Management and organization researchers are being called to conduct research that is more caring, yet the concept of care and how to practice it within the profession is undertheorized. Adopting a feminist epistemology and methodology, we develop the concept of care by weaving the personal, ethical, and political into the research process. First, we reflect critically on how aspects of care—attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and responsiveness (Tronto, Moral boundaries: a political argument for an ethic of care, Routledge, 1993; Tronto, Caring democracy: markets, equality, and justice, New York University Press, 2013)—unfolded in our personal research experiences, and secondly, we conduct a review of articles published in management and organization studies and analyse expressed or concealed conceptions of care in scholars' accounts of research purpose and ethics. We find three ethical sensibilities at the heart of enacting care: encountering the 'other', interpreting roles and responsibilities, and deliberating needs and resources. We contribute to a feminist research ethics by highlighting issues related to care that are concealed in dominant ethos guiding management and organization research. Further, we develop methodological insights for implementing an ethic of care as an alternative ethical standpoint in business research ethics. Finally, we provide suggestions for how to embed more care within research ethics practices in academic institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on Female Convict Scorpion, a Japanese women-in-prison film series (1972–1973), which exemplifies studio-produced exploitation cinema. The series is influenced by the contemporaneous yakuza cycle and its anti-authoritarian social realist agenda. Produced during a time of rapid political-economic-social change in the country, the Female Convict Scorpion series combines exploitative content – the display of nudity, violence, and sensational subjects – with an underlying feminist sensibility, a mixture that embraces the ambiguities of commercial genre cinema. Through close textual analysis, this research explains the contradictions in this women-in-prison series by 1) providing evidence of the female gaze and the subversive narrative tropes, which reveals the feminist subtext in these films, and 2) examining the stylistic and narrative effects of cinematic excesses. This article, thus, re-evaluates these popular genre films as in a time capsule, documenting the significance of their expression of gender politics in 1970s Japan through the distinctive production context and presentation of cinematic excesses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In light of the devastating effects of COVID-19 on early childhood care and education (ECCE), with this study we aimed at illuminating the self-efficacy and well-being of ECCE teacher educators, from the perspective of 9 participants in 7 higher education institutions (HEIs) across 5 South African provinces. The study, conducted by 2 ECCE teacher educators, was informed by the feminist ethics of care, combined with Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory, to understand self-efficacy, and Seligman's PERMA (positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishments) theory of well-being. Semi-structured, online interviews using Microsoft Teams was used to produce the data. The findings reveal aspects that compromised self-efficacy and well-being, as well as aspects that energised them. All the participants reported that their institutions were under-prepared for the pandemic. They recognised that they lacked work-life balance and were at risk of burnout. Despite this, their resilience enabled them to develop a deeper interest and stronger commitment to their work, largely because of the support they had received from their colleagues. From the findings of the study we recognise that strong self-efficacy sustained teacher educators' professional practice despite the pandemic affecting their well-being in a negative way. In the context of building forward better and differently, this study points to the importance of developing responsive well-being programmes for staff in higher education institutions and communities of practice that are responsive to the needs of female teacher educators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]