Author: Jorma Heier

Jorma Heier

Jorma Heier studied Political Science, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology and obtained the Magistra Artium degree at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. From September 2009 until August 2015, Heier was a research assistant at the Political Theory department of the University of Osnabrück, and conducts PhD. research on ›Political Repair‹ under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Matthias Bohlender, Universität Osnabrück and Prof. Dr. Joan C. Tronto, University of Minnesota there. In the winter term of 2009, Heier was a lecturer at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, in the summer term 2014 a lecturer at the DHBW Stuttgart, and since Oktober 2015 Heier is a lecturer at the University of Osnabrück.

Political Repair in relation to Tronto’s political ethics of care

Political ethics, even strands professing to an expressive-collaborative model of morality, still assume that there is a common moral community with a set of shared default understandings, which are divested of public deliberation. Authors of the political difference between the political and apolitical politics propose a shift which puts the political struggle over whether there is a common community with common understandings center stage. Continue reading Political Repair in relation to Tronto’s political ethics of care

The relevance of critical insights of postcolonial theory

Care theory started out as a critical epistemology that added a different, a female voice to morality. As a political ethics, care theory has moreover turned its attention to political practices and institutions that beget inequality and power asymmetries through political practices of gendering and racializing, and thereby devaluing and marginalizing, care work and carers. Continue reading The relevance of critical insights of postcolonial theory

Relational responsibility : a matter of care towards past and future

In Relationale Verantwortung (2016), Jorma Heier reexamines and enriches the care ethical concept of relational responsibility to reframe the political entanglement of harmful structural actions of citizens and institutions in the global North that bear down upon the conditions and migrations of people in the global South.  Continue reading Relational responsibility : a matter of care towards past and future