Joan Tronto

Caring democracy: current topics

Caring democracy: current topics in the political theory of care

Introduction In 2013, political care ethicist Joan Tronto((Joan C. Tronto is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Professor Emerita at the City University of New York and initiator of the Care Ethics Research Consortium www.care-ethics.org.)) applied a care-ethical view to democratic theory in her book Caring democracy: Markets, equality and justice, and invited scholars …

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Joan Tronto

Joan Tronto

Interview with Joan Tronto, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 1. Where are you working at this moment? At the University of Minnesota. 2. Can you tell us about your research and its relation to care ethics? I’ve been writing about care ethics for about thirty years.  My current research involves …

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Joan Tronto

Joan Tronto is professor of political science and women’s studies at CUNY and author of Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. 1. Where are your working at this moment? Currently I teach at Hunter College, CUNY, New York City. In September I moved to the University of Minnesota, Department of Political …

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