Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Gasper, D.R.
Author-Name-Last: Gasper
Author-Name-First: Des
Author-Name: Truong, T.-D.
Author-Name-Last: Truong
Author-Name-First: Thanh-Dam
Title: Development ethics through the lenses of caring, gender, and human security.
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. This 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. The authors examine the potential contributions
 the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism; the work of philosopher-anthropologist Ananta Giri; and feminist care ethics.
Creation-Date: 2008-09-01
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/18734/wp459.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:euriss
Keywords: Buddhism, care ethics, development ethics, globalization, human development, human security, migration, vulnerability
Handle: RePEc:ems:euriss:18734