Care-Politics

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

Buch, Englisch, 192 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 Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

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 a Senior Lecturer in Design at Goldsmiths University and Co-Director of the Design Societies Research Unit.