 Caring for White Supremacy: The Case of Kyle RittenhouseNathan Thayer Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2025, vol. 115, issue 2, 441-455 Abstract: In August 2020, then 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse shot three White men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests that followed the police murder of Jacob Blake. After the shooting, myriad forms of care unfolded in support of Kyle Rittenhouse. In recent years, scholarship on care and care ethics has sought to “trouble” care, pushing beyond the traditional boundaries of care, considering forms of care that lie outside of traditional caring relationships, and bringing into view care that does not result in a universal good. In this article I add to this recent engagement by calling for greater attention to the ways in which care (re)produces systems of violence. Namely, using the events surrounding the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I document the networks of support and resource flows that cared for Kyle Rittenhouse before, during, and following his trial. Ultimately, I argue that care, although often framed as a transformative force, plays a role in the ongoing production of White supremacy. Date: 2025 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:115:y:2025:i:2:p:441-455 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2024.2428307 Access Statistics for this article Annals of the American Association of Geographers is currently edited by Jennifer Cassidento More articles in Annals of the American Association of Geographers from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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