{"title":"Wendy Harcourt","description":"\u003cp\u003eWendy Harcourt's work delves into the complex dynamics of care within educational and social contexts, offering thoughtful analysis and critical perspectives. Her books explore themes of ethical responsibility, social justice, and the nuanced relationships that underpin caregiving practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for readers interested in \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, Harcourt’s writing combines academic rigour with accessible insights, inviting reflection on how care shapes communities and influences policy. Her thoughtful approach encourages deeper understanding of the human connections at the heart of learning and support.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"conundrums-of-care-by-wendy-harcourt-9781350459595","title":"Conundrums of Care","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRenowned feminist development scholar Wendy Harcourt offers the first incisive open access overview of how the lively feminist debates on care, in both minority and majority worlds, are crucial for critical development studies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdopting an intentionally open and readable style to ensure its technical terms are understood, each chapter starts by narrating nonfictional, on-the-ground stories. These stories are selected from different places, peoples, and histories to show how care is understood in feminist economic debates on key subjects such as social reproduction analysis, interspecies relations in posthumanism, environmental justice in feminist political ecology, and reciprocity and accountability in postdevelopment and decolonialism. In each chapter, these sketches are then fleshed out through a critical survey of influential thinkers and activists who adopt ecofeminist, feminist political ecology, critical indigenous studies, transition studies, postdevelopment, and decolonial approaches to development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book—alongside the illustrations, vlogs, and social-media messaging that accompany it online—provides researchers, students, practitioners, and activists with the tools to explain why care is such a crucial concept for critical development discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Erasmus University Rotterdam.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470337884396,"sku":"9781350459595","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350459595-conundrums-of-care.jpg?v=1775216612"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/wendy-harcourt.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}