Cities and the ethic of care for the stranger

About the event

The third annual Joseph Rowntree Foundation lecture in partnership with the University of York.

The event will focus on living with diversity and the role of cities in managing cultural difference. In developing a novel conceptualisation of urban togetherness, the lecture will:

• look at recent appeals to inter-personal understanding;
• argue that a certain collective unconscious in urban life (e.g. decent services, public spaces and a strong commons) is a better way forward; and
• claim that the ethic of care cannot be divorced from the language of nation and community, which has become narrow and punitive since 9/11.

The lecture will be delivered by Professor Ash Amin from Durham University and a response will be given by Matt Matravers, Director, School of Politics, Economics, and Philosophy at University of York.

The text of Ash Amin's lecture can be found here.