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