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A Feminist Ethics of Care for the Embodied Organizing of Solidarity: Lessons from the Refugee Crisis in Greece

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  • Emmanouela Mandalaki

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In this paper, I employ feminist ethics of care and critical perspectives on affect to study grassroot solidarity operations for rescuing refugees in Greece in the wake of the Syrian Civil War. Drawing on an eclectic dialogue between Rosalyn Diprose and Judith Butler’s ethical perspectives, I conceptualize an ethical organizing of solidarity rooted in recognition of vulnerability as a shared social condition, embodied affectivity, and intercorporeal generosity. This conceptualization contributes to business ethics debates on the potential of embodied care and relationality to ground an ethics of feminist solidarity that meaningfully challenges the dominant orders marginalizing precarious lives. I reflect on ethical and epistemological questions encountered in this research, stressing the need to reframe business ethics research around care, affect, and reflexivity, especially when studying vulnerable contexts.

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  • Emmanouela Mandalaki, 2025. "A Feminist Ethics of Care for the Embodied Organizing of Solidarity: Lessons from the Refugee Crisis in Greece," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 202(2), pages 341-355, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:202:y:2025:i:2:d:10.1007_s10551-025-05974-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-025-05974-2
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