The Politics and Policies of Kindness in Aotearoa New Zealand

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Knowledge Cultures Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.22381/kc9320215

A. Johnson

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Abstract

This paper considers two questions. The first is the extent to which recent kindness narratives in Aotearoa New Zealand have been matched by political choices and actions which will build a kinder New Zealand. I investigate how kindness has been practised in tangible ways since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and the ways in which public sentiment has become more or less kind. The second question concerns how New Zealanders might build a 'politics of kindness' into their communities and society. In addressing this second question, a more theoretical approach is taken, which draws on the work of moral philosophers Alasdair McIntyre and Martha Nussbaum and the ideas offered in virtue ethics. This part of the paper is not intended to be an essay in moral philosophy but rather an attempt to inject an alternate moral tradition into New Zealand's political and policy discourse.

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新西兰奥特罗阿的政治与友善政策

本文考虑两个问题。第一个是新西兰最近的善良叙事在多大程度上与政治选择和行动相匹配，这些选择和行动将建立一个更善良的新西兰。我调查了自2020年初新冠肺炎大流行开始以来，人们是如何以切实的方式践行善良的，以及公众情绪是如何或多或少变得善良的。第二个问题是关于新西兰人如何在他们的社区和社会中建立一种“善良的政治”。在回答第二个问题时，采用了一种更理论化的方法，它借鉴了道德哲学家阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔和玛莎·努斯鲍姆的作品，以及美德伦理学中提出的观点。本文的这一部分并不打算成为一篇道德哲学论文，而是试图将另一种道德传统注入新西兰的政治和政策话语。

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Knowledge Cultures Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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期刊介绍： Knowledge Cultures is a multidisciplinary journal that draws on the humanities and social sciences at the intersections of economics, philosophy, library science, international law, politics, cultural studies, literary studies, new technology studies, history, and education. The journal serves as a hothouse for research with a specific focus on how knowledge futures will help to define the shape of higher education in the twenty-first century. In particular, the journal is interested in general theoretical problems concerning information and knowledge production and exchange, including the globalization of higher education, the knowledge economy, the interface between publishing and academia, and the development of the intellectual commons with an accent on digital sustainability, commons-based production and exchange of information and culture, the development of learning and knowledge networks and emerging concepts of freedom, access and justice in the organization of knowledge production.