Repensar los cuidados: de las prácticas a la ontopolítica
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2021
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Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Avanzados ( CSIC)
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En este artículo se plantea una revisión teórica del desarrollo seguido por muchas de las principales investigaciones sobre cuidados y de la centralidad que el feminismo les ha otorgado. Argumentamos que ello ha llevado a concebir los cuidados como complejos procesos socioprácticos que son fundamentales para las subjetividades, el consenso social y la perpetuación de un mundo común. La posterior indagación en la interdependencia de tales prácticas, las éticas de los cuidados y la emergencia de una perspectiva posthumanista nos permite desbordar esa concepción, caracterizando la lógica de los cuidados como una lógica de ajustes continuos y defendiendo el paso de aquellas éticas a una eventual ontología de materializaciones del cuidar que es inevitablemente política y altera nuestra concepción de lo humano y su inserción en el entorno.
This paper is a theoretical review of the course followed by most of the main care researches, along with feminist claims of its centrality. We argue that it arrives at a concept of care as complex socio-practical processes which are fundamental for subjectivities, social consensus and the perpetuation of a common world. Thinking about interdependence in such practices, ‘ethics of care’ and the emergence of a post-humanist perspective, we are able to go, in a second movement, beyond that concept describing the specific logic of care practices as a tinkering logic and claiming for a transition from those ethics to an eventual ontology of “matters of care” which is inevitably political and changes our vision of ourselves and our placement in environment.
This paper is a theoretical review of the course followed by most of the main care researches, along with feminist claims of its centrality. We argue that it arrives at a concept of care as complex socio-practical processes which are fundamental for subjectivities, social consensus and the perpetuation of a common world. Thinking about interdependence in such practices, ‘ethics of care’ and the emergence of a post-humanist perspective, we are able to go, in a second movement, beyond that concept describing the specific logic of care practices as a tinkering logic and claiming for a transition from those ethics to an eventual ontology of “matters of care” which is inevitably political and changes our vision of ourselves and our placement in environment.