Material Information
- Title:
- Cultivating Blossoming and Healing Ecologies via Radical Virtue Ethics con Cariño: Encouraging Learning, Care and Restorative Justice
- Physical Description:
- Book
- Language:
- English
Spanish
- Creator:
- Ortiz Sotelo, Andrea Alejandra
- Publisher:
- New College of Florida
- Place of Publication:
- Sarasota, Fla.
- Publication Date:
- 2014
Thesis/Dissertation Information
- Degree:
- Bachelor's ( B.A.)
- Degree Grantor:
- New College of Florida
- Degree Divisions:
- Humanities
- Area of Concentration:
- Philosophy, Gender Studies
Subjects
- Genre:
- bibliography ( marcgt )
theses ( marcgt )
government publication (state, provincial, territorial, dependent) ( marcgt )
born-digital ( sobekcm )
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Notes
- Abstract:
- Our boundaries and responsibilities evolve as our communities and ecologies
change. We generate value (and capital) from our active and creative connections but we
often fail to recognize how our collective prosperity is proportional to our capacity to
care for/about each other. All of us can blossom, but we need to learn how to help each
other to flourish. If we care about our lives, (which we should/must learn to do) our
becoming must be resourceful and resilient. We are all vulnerable because we are living
creatures, although some of us experience more environmental injustices than others. It is
necessary for us to ask ourselves and listen to each other to fully comprehend how we
ought to care. This thesis weaves narratives of a radically feminist cariño to describe
why and how an applied queer feminist virtue ethics of caring forms the roots of practical
solutions for transformative social engagement, educación, and restorative justice,
finding nourishment for new blossomings from a dire and critical re-valuation of the
margins, in which mestizaje and borderlands identities, wisdom, and community support
are constantly becoming, through praxis, a cultivation of social flourishing both in
nuestras familias y nuestras tierras. As it is transformative, cariño already plays an
instructive role and its virtues infiltrate dynamic spaces, possibly reaching all levels of
our common condition. Theoretically, propping up cariño as an indispensible feminist
virtue wanders away from paths previously taken by philosophical and psychological
theories of care and conventional readings of Aristotle’s virtue ethics. I present analyses
of literary contexts, feminist scholarship regarding care and intersectionality, and theories
of radical pedagogy, as well as personal narratives, Spanglish, and word play to advocate
for the generative power of cariño as the creative, playful, dynamic force and rhythmic
heart of sustainable social development. Through cultural examples of becoming and my
own experience with the Compeciné Youth Academy (CYA), I characterize different forms
of self and community development con cariño, as the basic building blocks for teaching,
learning, participant action research (PAR) and Conscientização, vital toward future
discussions of applied philosophy of education and ultimately to generating hope for our
future.
- Statement of Responsibility:
- by Andrea Alejandra Ortiz Sotelo
- Thesis:
- Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2014
- General Note:
- RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- General Note:
- This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.
- General Note:
- Faculty Sponsor: Flakne, April
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- New College of Florida
- Holding Location:
- New College of Florida
- Rights Management:
- Applicable rights reserved.
- Resource Identifier:
- Classification:
- S.T. 2014 O7
- System ID:
- AA00024786:00001
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