Care-Politics

STS, Feminism, and Design
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5197-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book brings feminist science and technology studies together with design research, arguing that design's focus on 'matters of concern' can be shifted toward 'matters of care'. It introduces a typology of five care-politics, a framework for understanding how care is put into practice.

Using case studies that range from a workshop on gender in design to the ongoing responsibilities of research devices, the book explores the pitfalls of working ‘with care’ and proposes more inventive approaches to ethics.

This is a key resource for scholars and students grappling with the ethical and political dimensions of design and related fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pennington, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Approaching Design and STS with Care

2. A Typology of Care-Politics

3. Made in the Name of Care: Unsettling Gendered Caring Affects

4. Speculating with Care: Between Maintenance and the Possible

5. Being Careful with the Idiot: The Story of a Lost Research Device

6. Inventive Ethics and Constraints of Care

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Pennington is Senior Lecturer in the School of Design at Goldsmiths, University of London and Co-Director of the Design Societies Research Unit.