TY - JOUR AU - Wood, Lydia AU - Swanson, Kate AU - Colley III, Donald E. PY - 2020/09/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Tenets For a Radical Care Ethics in Geography JF - ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies JA - ACME VL - 19 IS - 2 SE - Research DO - UR - https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1767 SP - 424-447 AB - <p>This paper draws from experiences working with youth in Southern California, many of whom are increasingly under mental, emotional and financial duress. We write this paper to reflect on the capacity to be both radical and caring scholars within academia. We suggest that by combining the complimentary and parallel aims of radical geography’s concern for social justice and care ethics’ concern for relationality and emotions, we can gain important insights into what it might mean to be caring and radical academics. We propose three tenets for what we term a ‘Radical Care Ethics’ in geography: 1) Research and teaching that is committed to understanding and improving the material conditions of those living on the margins; 2) Scholarship and teaching that extends outside of academic circles to engage meaningfully with the lives of those on the margins; and 3) Attention towards the emotions of others and ourselves in ways that further a commitment to care. We argue that a radical care ethics can serve as an intellectual compass that can begin to address the precarity of those surviving on the margins, particularly young people. A radical care ethics has potential to not only pave the way for more socially responsive scholarship, but to also transform our universities into more caring and socially-just institutions.</p> ER -