Vulnerability and Response鈥慉bility in the Pandemic Marketplace: Developing an Ethic of Care for Provisioning in Crisis
- verfasst von
- Susi Geiger, Ilaria Galasso, Nora Hangel, Federica Lucivero, Gemma Watts
- Abstract
This paper draws on the ethics of care to investigate how citizens grappled with ethical tensions in the mundane practice of grocery shopping at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. We use this case to address the broader question of what it means 鈥榯o care鈥� in the context of a crisis. Based on a qualitative longitudinal cross-country interview study, we find that the pandemic transformed ordinary shopping spaces into places fraught with a sense of fear and vulnerability. Being forced to face one鈥檚 own vulnerability created an opportunity for individuals to relate to one another as significant others through a sense of 鈥渞esponse-ability鈥�, or the capacity of people to respond to ethical demands through situated ethical reasoning. We argue for a practical ethos of care in which seemingly small decisions such as how often to go shopping and how much to buy of a particular product serve as a means to relate to both specified and generalized others鈥攁nd through this, 鈥榗are with鈥� society. Our study contributes to displacing the continuing prevalence of an abstract and prescriptive morality in consumption ethics with a situated and affective politics of care. This vocabulary seems better suited to reflect on the myriad of small and unheroic care acts in times of crisis and beyond.
- Organisationseinheit(en)
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Leibniz Forschungszentrum Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft (LCSS)
- Externe Organisation(en)
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University College Dublin
Technische 鲍苍颈惫别谤蝉颈迟盲迟 M眉nchen (TUM)
University of Oxford
- Typ
- Artikel
- Journal
- Journal of business ethics
- Band
- 192
- Seiten
- 441-459
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 19
- ISSN
- 0167-4544
- Publikationsdatum
- 07.2024
- Publikationsstatus
- 痴别谤枚蹿蹿别苍迟濒颈肠丑迟
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Betriebswirtschaft und Internationales Management, Allgemeine Unternehmensf眉hrung und Buchhaltung, Geisteswissenschaftliche F盲cher (sonstige), Volkswirtschaftslehre und 脰konometrie, Recht
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