Policy Press

Care and the Pluriverse

Rethinking Global Ethics

By Maggie FitzGerald

This book examines the concept of the pluriverse alongside global ethics and the ethics of care in order to contemplate new ethical horizons for engaging across difference. Offering a challenge to the current state of the field, this book argues for a rethinking of global ethics as it has been conceived thus far.

A perennial debate in the field of global ethics revolves around the possibility of a universalist ethics as well as arguments over the nature, and significance, of difference for moral deliberation. Decolonial literature, in particular, increasingly signifies a pluriverse – one with radical ontological and epistemological differences.

This book examines the concept of the pluriverse alongside global ethics and the ethics of care in order to contemplate new ethical horizons for engaging across difference. Offering a challenge to the current state of the field, this book argues for a rethinking of global ethics as it has been conceived thus far.

“This book develops an exciting and innovative synthesis between decolonial and feminist care ethics. It is essential reading for all scholars working in international and global ethics.” Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London

Maggie FitzGerald is Assistant Professor in Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

1. The Pluriversal Challenge to Global Ethics

2. The Problem of Modernity and the Decolonial Project

3. Mapping Global Ethics in the Pluriverse

4. A Critical, Political Ethics of Care

5. Partial Connections: The Pluriverse, Ethics, and Care

6. Vulnerable and Precarious Worlds: A Meta-Theoretical Orientation

7. The Political and the Pluriverse: A (Dis)Associative Theory of Care

8. Building the Pluriverse with Care

9. Rethinking Global Ethics with Care and the Pluriverse