Violence and Care: Fanon and the Ethics of Care on Harm, Trauma, and Repair

According to Frantz Fanon, the psychological and social-political are deeply intertwined in colonial context. Psychologically, colonizers perceive colonized as inferior internalize this an inferiority complex. This reality is co-constitutive of by material relations power—the imaginary both creates created power. It also context that violence takes on significant political import: deployed rebel against these enact a different world will be violent its fundamental disruption imaginary. The ethics care, other hand, does not seem sit well with violence, thus Fanon’s theory more generally. Care concerned everything we do maintain repair our worlds reasonably possible. Violence, which ruptures psycho-affective, material, realities, seems antithetical task. article seeks reconsider apparent antinomy between care via dialogue Fanon care. In so doing, mobilizes relational conceptualization allows for possibility certain violences may, fact, justifiable from perspective. At same time, I contend any form eventually demand caring response. Ultimately, productive reading encourages postcolonial philosophers ethicists alike examine critically relation ways cannot priori draw lines two.