ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a personal narrative taken from the author’s own life to contextualise the issue. It considers the concepts of collective agency, caring citizenship, moral agency, interdependency and relationality, to explore the positioning of people with learning disabilities in Western society and demonstrates the way in which relationships of care may be used to forward claims for citizenship and social justice for people with learning disabilities. The chapter draws on that notion to analyse the personal experience of care, from the perspective of carers with learning disabilities, to explore how an analysis based on care ethics can be used to make visible the experience of people with learning disabilities who are carers. It demonstrates how they could enable people with learning disabilities to be accorded recognition as active citizens within civic society. The chapter provides an endeavour in moral inquiry in which theory is considered and adjusted in the light of experience.
