We are pleased to alert you to the latest ISS working paper 459,
DEVELOPMENT ETHICS THROUGH THE LENSES OF CARING, GENDER, AND HUMAN
SECURITY by Des Gasper, Associate Professor
of Public Policy Management, and Thanh-Dam Truong, Associate Professor
of Women, Gender and Development, at the Institute of Social Studies.
 
Abstract

Thinking about ethics of development and ‘human development’ must
both treat development in a global perspective and yet reflect on the
content of ‘human’. The paper explores some faces of globalization by
using a gender perspective, in order to consider reproduction
(psychological and emotional as well as biological) and the activities
and attitudes of care that give moral resources for response to
systemic tragedy, not only for identifying and understanding it. There
now exist globally interconnected systems of vulnerability and
capability, for which matching systems of human security, care and
responsibility are needed in order to protect human dignity. The
discourse of ‘human security’ helps here by better grounding an agenda
of basic human needs, in an ethnography of ordinary lives rather than
only an abstracted accounting of deficiencies or an elevated language
of opportunities. It must be emotionally and existentially grounded
too. We examine the potential contributions here of three diverse
bodies of thought: the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism; the work of
philosopher-anthropologist Ananta Giri; and feminist care ethics.
Keywords
Development ethics, Buddhism, care ethics, globalization, human development, human security, migration, vulnerability.
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