Do you really want to know about this?: Critical Feminist Ethics of Care as a Project of Unsettling
Llavaneras Blanco, Masaya (2024) “‘So, you really want to know about this?’: Race, power and the potential of a subversive Critical Feminist Ethics of Care,” In Bourgault, S., Fitzgerald, M., and Fiona Robinson (Eds.) Decentering epistemologies and challenging privilege: critical care ethics perspectives, Rutgers University Press, NJ, USA.
Early in my research about care and human mobilities among Haitian domestic workers in the Dominican Republic (DR), I realized that my interest in how Haitian domestic workers provided care for themselves and for one another took most interlocutors by surprise. One interview stood out. After I explained that, among other themes, I was exploring the selfcare practices of Haitian women, the interviewee, a researcher and public servant, looked at me with disbelief and repeated as if to confirm what she had heard: “Selfcare?,” before suggesting that it was unlikely that I would find anything about that (KI1, January 2017).