Conundrums of Care by Wendy Harcourt - 9781350459601

Conundrums of CareFeminist Entanglements in Critical Development Studies\nAuthor(s): Wendy Harcourt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350459601, 978-1350459601\nSynopsis\nRenowned feminist development scholar Wendy Harcourt offers the first incisive open access overview of how the lively feminist debates on care, in both minority and majority worlds, are crucial for critical development studies.\n\nAdopting an intentionally open and readable style to ensure its technical terms are understood, each chapter starts by narrating nonfictional, on-the-ground storiesstories selected from different places, peoples, and historiesin order to show how care is understood in feminist economic debates on key subjects such as social reproduction analysis; interspecies relations in posthumanism; environmental justice in feminist political ecology; and reciprocity and accountability in postdevelopment and decolonialism..