Care and responsibility

This chapter provides a review of critical geographical scholarship on care and its relationship to feminist economic, political and urban geography. It provides insight into how geographers approach the concepts of care and responsibility. In the first part of the chapter, we explore what care is and why it is an important concept in social geography. Secondly, we consider the different political approaches to who is responsible for care, bringing insights from feminist care ethics which argue that we have collective rather than individual care responsibility. Thirdly, we examine how responsibility for care might extend across place and time. We end by reflecting on the transformative potential of care as a framework that challenges geographers to work towards more equal and caring worlds.