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| − | |Instruction Goal=By the end of this micromodule participants should be able to: | + | |Instruction Goal=This micromodule introduces the ethics of care and its relevance for research. By the end of this micromodule participants should be able to: |
| − | + | * '''Understand''' core ethics of care concepts and their basis in feminist and indigenous philosophies | |
| − | + | * '''Identify''' care-based practices in your own research setting | |
| − | + | * '''Propose''' strategies for strengthening care-based and environmentally aware practices in your own research and research setting. | |
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|Important For=All stakeholders in research; PhD Students; Researchers; Senior researchers | |Important For=All stakeholders in research; PhD Students; Researchers; Senior researchers | ||
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|Instruction Step Title=Learn about care ethics | |Instruction Step Title=Learn about care ethics | ||
|Instruction Step Text=Watch this short video introducing ethics of care (or care ethics). | |Instruction Step Text=Watch this short video introducing ethics of care (or care ethics). | ||
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|Instruction Step Interactive Content=Resource:H5P-517 | |Instruction Step Interactive Content=Resource:H5P-517 | ||
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|Instruction Step Title=Reflect about the 5 phases of care in your research | |Instruction Step Title=Reflect about the 5 phases of care in your research | ||
| − | |Instruction Step Text=Look back at the 5 phases of care by Toronto and think about your research. How could you reflect on and integrate the 5 phases of care in your research? You can think about your | + | |Instruction Step Text=Look back at the 5 phases of care by Toronto and think about your research. How could you reflect on and integrate the 5 phases of care in your research? You can think about your research design or a specific phase of your research. |
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| − | [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09650792.2018.1450771?utm_source=researchgate.net&medium=article] | + | For inspiration you can look at [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09650792.2018.1450771?utm_source=researchgate.net&medium=article this article] where a research group describes in detail how they have integrate the and reflected upon the 5 phases of care in their research.[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09650792.2018.1450771?utm_source=researchgate.net&medium=article] |
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According to Whyte and Cuomo (2016) indigenous conceptions of care include: | According to Whyte and Cuomo (2016) indigenous conceptions of care include: | ||
| − | 1) the importance of one’s awareness of their own place within a web of different | + | 1) the importance of one’s awareness of their own place within a web of different connections (including humans, non-human beings and entities, and collectives (e.g., forests, seasonal cycles); |
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| − | connections (including humans, non-human beings and entities, and collectives (e.g., forests, seasonal cycles); | ||
2) the understanding of moral connections as including relationships of interdependence that motivate reciprocal responsibilities; | 2) the understanding of moral connections as including relationships of interdependence that motivate reciprocal responsibilities; | ||
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3) the valorization of skills and virtues, such as the wisdom of grandparents and elders, attentiveness to the environment, and indigenous stewardship practices; | 3) the valorization of skills and virtues, such as the wisdom of grandparents and elders, attentiveness to the environment, and indigenous stewardship practices; | ||
| − | 4) the will to restore people and communities wounded by injustices by rebuilding | + | 4) the will to restore people and communities wounded by injustices by rebuilding relationships that can generate responsibilities pertinent to the environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss; |
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| − | relationships that can generate responsibilities pertinent to the environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss; | ||
5) the conception of political autonomy as involving the protection of the right to serve as responsible stewards of lands and the environment. | 5) the conception of political autonomy as involving the protection of the right to serve as responsible stewards of lands and the environment. | ||
| − | These conceptions of care align with the idea that in indigenous knowledge, care | + | These conceptions of care align with the idea that in indigenous knowledge, care responsibilities extend to nature and the environment. This is exemplified by the concept of kinship (i.e. the bond that exists between members of a group, often a family, based on which relationships, social structures, rights, obligations, and expectations are determined) which in indigenous traditions extends to the place we live in, including nature, animals and the elements which sustain life. In this view, kinship, is not merely a status (defined belonging to a certain group) but an action, and in particular the reciprocal care that members of the kinship exercise for each other. |
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| − | responsibilities extend to nature and the environment. This is exemplified by the concept of kinship (i.e. the bond that exists between members of a group, often a family, based on which relationships, social structures, rights, obligations, and expectations are determined) which in indigenous traditions extends to the place we live in, including nature, animals and the elements which sustain life. In this view, kinship, is not merely a status (defined belonging to a certain group) but an action, and in particular the reciprocal care that members of the kinship exercise for each other. | ||
Watch the video below: | Watch the video below: | ||
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Gilligan, C. 1982. In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Harvard University Press. | Gilligan, C. 1982. In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Harvard University Press. | ||
| − | Woodly, D., R.H. Brown, M. Marin, S. Threadcraft, C.P. Harris, J. Syedullah, and M. Ticktin. | + | Woodly, D., R.H. Brown, M. Marin, S. Threadcraft, C.P. Harris, J. Syedullah, and M. Ticktin. 2021. “The Politics of Care.” Contemporary Political Theory 20 (4): 890–925. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-021-00515-8</nowiki>. |
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| − | <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.2484479</nowiki> | + | Wrigley, K. 2025. Care-full climate justice organising. Environmental Sociology, 1–13. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.2484479</nowiki> |
Noddings, N. 2015. Care ethics and “caring” organizations. In: Engster D, Hamington M (eds) Care Ethics and Political Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 72–84. | Noddings, N. 2015. Care ethics and “caring” organizations. In: Engster D, Hamington M (eds) Care Ethics and Political Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 72–84. | ||
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Weil, S. 1977. Simone Weil Reader. New York: Moyer Bell. | Weil, S. 1977. Simone Weil Reader. New York: Moyer Bell. | ||
| − | Whyte, K. and C. J. Cuomo. 2016. “Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics: Indigenous | + | Whyte, K. and C. J. Cuomo. 2016. “Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics: Indigenous and Feminist Philosophies.” In S. M. Gardiner and A. Thompson (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics Oxford: Oxford Handbooks, 234–247. |
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| − | Hoven, M., <nowiki>&</nowiki>amp; Evans, N. 2024. The experience of women researchers during the Covid-19 pandemic: a scoping review. Research Ethics, 20(4), 780- 811. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161241231268</nowiki> | + | Inguaggiato, G., Pallise Perello, C., Verdonk, P., Schoonmade, L., Andanda, P., van den Hoven, M., <nowiki>&</nowiki>amp; Evans, N. 2024. The experience of women researchers during the Covid-19 pandemic: a scoping review. Research Ethics, 20(4), 780- 811. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161241231268</nowiki> |
Tronto, J.C. (2013). Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice. New Yourk: NYU Press. | Tronto, J.C. (2013). Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice. New Yourk: NYU Press. | ||
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Gauthier P. E., Chungyalpa D, Goldman RI, Davidson RJ, Wilson-Mendenhall CD. 2025. | Gauthier P. E., Chungyalpa D, Goldman RI, Davidson RJ, Wilson-Mendenhall CD. 2025. | ||
| − | Mother Earth kinship: Centering Indigenous worldviews to address the Anthropocene and | + | Mother Earth kinship: Centering Indigenous worldviews to address the Anthropocene and rethink the ethics of human-to-nature connectedness. Curr Opin Psychol. Aug(64): 102042. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102042. Epub 2025 Apr 11. PMID: 40288260. |
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Latest revision as of 12:21, 16 January 2026
ModulesEthics of care and human-nature relations
This micromodule introduces the ethics of care and its relevance for research. By the end of this micromodule participants should be able to:
- Understand core ethics of care concepts and their basis in feminist and indigenous philosophies
- Identify care-based practices in your own research setting
- Propose strategies for strengthening care-based and environmentally aware practices in your own research and research setting.
Learn about care ethics
Watch this short video introducing ethics of care (or care ethics).
Reflect about the 5 phases of care in your research
Look back at the 5 phases of care by Toronto and think about your research. How could you reflect on and integrate the 5 phases of care in your research? You can think about your research design or a specific phase of your research. For inspiration you can look at this article where a research group describes in detail how they have integrate the and reflected upon the 5 phases of care in their research.[1]
Extending care responsibilities to the environment
As we learned in step 1 care ethics values interconnectedness, interdependence, and rejects the individualistic rational autonomy, typical of the colonial wester perspective.
This way of understanding human relationship and of centering care responsibilities at the core of human flourishing was brought forward by feminist scholars and lies at the core of many indigenous practices and knowledges, where the interdependence among being and the reciprocal responsibilities that connect humans, the natural environment, including water and other beings, is recognized.
The concept of “care” is integrated in the discourse and practices of indigenous environmental movements and provide important paradigms for caring as part of environmental ethics.
According to Whyte and Cuomo (2016) indigenous conceptions of care include:
1) the importance of one’s awareness of their own place within a web of different connections (including humans, non-human beings and entities, and collectives (e.g., forests, seasonal cycles);
2) the understanding of moral connections as including relationships of interdependence that motivate reciprocal responsibilities;
3) the valorization of skills and virtues, such as the wisdom of grandparents and elders, attentiveness to the environment, and indigenous stewardship practices;
4) the will to restore people and communities wounded by injustices by rebuilding relationships that can generate responsibilities pertinent to the environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss;
5) the conception of political autonomy as involving the protection of the right to serve as responsible stewards of lands and the environment.
These conceptions of care align with the idea that in indigenous knowledge, care responsibilities extend to nature and the environment. This is exemplified by the concept of kinship (i.e. the bond that exists between members of a group, often a family, based on which relationships, social structures, rights, obligations, and expectations are determined) which in indigenous traditions extends to the place we live in, including nature, animals and the elements which sustain life. In this view, kinship, is not merely a status (defined belonging to a certain group) but an action, and in particular the reciprocal care that members of the kinship exercise for each other.
Watch the video below:Kelsey Leonard: Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans
Reflect: Extending kinship relationships to Nature
Extending kinship relationships to Nature implies extending the concept of interdependency to the environment and as a consequence the responsibilities that humans have towards the environment. This perspective, rooted in ancestral scientific foundation, based on experimentation, observation and adaptation is deeply embedded in indigenous systems around the world, including Ubuntu among the Bantu and Xhosa peoples of Africa, Lokahi for Native Hawaiians, All my relations widely used by Tribal and Indigenous nations across Turtle Island and Tendrel of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, the Himalayas, and South Asia: it underlines how humans hold care responsibilities toward non-human relatives (Gauthier et al 2005). This view is defined by Gauthier et al. as “Kincentric ecology”:
Listen and reflect: “Acts of Care in Microplastics Science”
Now that we have learned about care ethics and the way which in care has been conceptualized and enacted by indigenous environmental movements let’s look at a particular story brough to us by a microplastic researcher. In this story we hear few examples of how care-based and environmentally aware practices can be embedded in the context of research.
References
Urban Walker, M. 1998. Moral Understandings. A Feminist Study in Ethics. New York: Routledge.
Tronto, J. 1993. Moral Boundaries. A Political Argument For an Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge.
Noddings, N. 1982. Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. Berkeley: University of CA Press.
Gilligan, C. 1982. In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Harvard University Press.
Woodly, D., R.H. Brown, M. Marin, S. Threadcraft, C.P. Harris, J. Syedullah, and M. Ticktin. 2021. “The Politics of Care.” Contemporary Political Theory 20 (4): 890–925. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-021-00515-8.
Wrigley, K. 2025. Care-full climate justice organising. Environmental Sociology, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.2484479
Noddings, N. 2015. Care ethics and “caring” organizations. In: Engster D, Hamington M (eds) Care Ethics and Political Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 72–84.
Weil, S. 1977. Simone Weil Reader. New York: Moyer Bell.
Whyte, K. and C. J. Cuomo. 2016. “Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics: Indigenous and Feminist Philosophies.” In S. M. Gardiner and A. Thompson (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics Oxford: Oxford Handbooks, 234–247.
Inguaggiato, G., Pallise Perello, C., Verdonk, P., Schoonmade, L., Andanda, P., van den Hoven, M., & Evans, N. 2024. The experience of women researchers during the Covid-19 pandemic: a scoping review. Research Ethics, 20(4), 780- 811. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161241231268
Tronto, J.C. (2013). Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice. New Yourk: NYU Press.
Gauthier P. E., Chungyalpa D, Goldman RI, Davidson RJ, Wilson-Mendenhall CD. 2025.
Mother Earth kinship: Centering Indigenous worldviews to address the Anthropocene and rethink the ethics of human-to-nature connectedness. Curr Opin Psychol. Aug(64): 102042. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102042. Epub 2025 Apr 11. PMID: 40288260.
