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Care-Politics
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22 December 2026

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book brings feminist science and technology studies together with design research, arguing that design's focus on 'matters of concern' can be shifted toward 'matters of care'. It introduces a typology of five care-politics, a framework for understanding how care is put into practice.
Using case studies that range from a workshop on gender in design to the ongoing responsibilities of research devices, the book explores the pitfalls of working ‘with care’ and proposes more inventive approaches to ethics.
This is a key resource for scholars and students grappling with the ethical and political dimensions of design and related fields.
1. Approaching Design and STS with care
2. A typology of care-politics
3. Made in the name of care: Unsettling gendered caring affects
4. Speculating with care: Between maintenance and the possible
5. Being careful with the idiot: The story of a lost research device
6. Inventive ethics and constraints of care