Joan C Tronto
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 235391 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joan C Tronto |
| PRENOMES | Joan C |
| SOBRENOME | Tronto |
| ASSINATURA | TRONTO J C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Twin Cities Orthopedics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2652-7068 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 589 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Afterword
The afterword reviews some of the findings of the contributions to the Berlin Journal of Sociology’s issue 3–4/2025 on ‘Facing transformative change? Care and housing in Europe’, and considers the broader framing of the relationship of housing and care. The essay starts off with the observation of how little work has connected care and housing in the past, in part because care is conceived as activity and housing as structure, and in part because…
Care ethics in theory and practice
The following interview was occasioned by the award of the Benjamin E. Lippincott Prize to Professor Tronto by the American Political Science Association in recognition of work of exceptional quality and lasting influence by a living political theorist
Challenges to Creating a Caring Democracy
Whatever else may have emerged from the global pandemic of COVID-19, we should recognize it as a brief moment when concerns for people's health displaced concern for the growth of the political economy. While there were many negative effects of this shift of attention, especially for those who were already the most vulnerable people everywhere, it was a remarkable shift in focus.Will such a concern for care continue to guide policies and people's…
Chi se ne cura? Come riformare la democrazia
The theme of philia – a Greek word that covers a semantic area not entirely overlapping with friendship or Freundschaft – has found a place in Gadamer’s reflection at least since 1928. It expresses the being-in-common that the reflection grasps as constitutive of the human but also as a task and finds its figure in what can be called the hermeneutic community. A being in common that, in fact, is fulfilled in the articulation of authentic dialogue…
Long Covid’ and seeing in the pandemic dark
This double special issue of the International Journal of Care and Caring considers the acute shock to caregiving around the world created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, when inviting contributions for this volume, we editorialised that 'care has "come out", emerging from the shadows as a taken-for-granted afterthought in public life'. As we supposed what we expected to learn, we noted that inequalities in both access to and provision of…
Caring Democracy
Vicious Circles of Privatized Caring
Redefining Democracy as Settling Disputes about Care Responsibilities
Caring Democracy
Why Personal Responsibility Isn’t Enough for Democracy
Democratic Caring
Can Markets Be Caring?
Tough Guys Don’t Care . . . Do They?
Moral Boundaries
In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a "women's morality" are challenged.Moral Boundarie…
Care goes viral
As the COVID-19 novel coronavirus spread in late 2019, it quickly transformed from a local outbreak to a regional and then an international epidemic. Within three months, it became the global pandemic that many observers believe will irrevocably change the world and how we live in it. Among the most affected aspects of life will be how we organise and practise care and caring
Moving Beyond the Glass Ceiling
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Care as a Political Concept
This chapter explores how the shape of political theories might change were we to think of care as a political concept. It discusses the ways in which care appears to be an apolitical concept. The chapter proposes how different conceptualization frees care from its apolitical context and opens new analytic issues in understanding care as a political concept. It reviews the initial criticisms of the apolitical nature of care laid out in the chapte…
Democratic caring and global care responsibilities
Sheldon Wolin’s theoretical practice
Beyond the Global Care Chain
Revisiting the Global Care Chain literature, we reflect on the ways in which care functions as a moral discourse that simultaneously resonates with local people and helps to promote neoliberalization in contexts that are often left out of the literature. We argue that care, both as concept and practice, inflects the broadest moral contradiction, ambivalence and hybridity of our social and political world today. Critiques of inequalities in global…
There is an alternative
Neoliberal policies around the globe have made caring more difficult. Yet, many scholars seem to have accepted neoliberalism as an inescapable reality. This article argues against this view. Instead, it suggests that care stands as a major alternative way to the neoliberal paradigm, both conceptually and historically. Formulating a conceptual account of people as homines curans (caring people) and drawing upon Polanyi's history of market ideologi…
Comment 2
Aquest simposi ofereix una discussió crítica de les lògiques i dinàmiques entorn de la nova perspectiva de la «circulació de la cura» presentades per Loretta Baldassar i Laura Merla en el seu volum titulat Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care. Aquest comentari elogia la precisió d’aquesta nova perspectiva en els estudis sobre família, però alhora ens recorda la vigència de l’aproximació de les «cadenes globals», en la mes…
Who Cares?
The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. In this book the 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. Asserting that Americans are facing a “caring defici…
Theories of care as a challenge to Weberian paradigms in social science
This chapter makes a large claim for theories of care: they now need to show how they offer a different analysis of social reality from more mainstream approaches in social science. The Weberian model of social science, which starts from the intentional action of actors and discovers the unintended consequences of their actions, is a model of social science that limits the scope of responsibilities. Using Ulrich Beck’s notion of “risk society” as…
Toward a Feminist Theory of Caring
There is an alternative
Neoliberal policies around the globe have made caring more difficult. Yet, many scholars seem to have accepted neoliberalism as an inescapable reality. This article argues against this view. Instead, it suggests that care stands as a major alternative way to the neoliberal paradigm, both conceptually and historically. Formulating a conceptual account of people as homines curans (caring people) and drawing upon Polanyi's history of market ideologi…
Creating Caring Institutions
How do we know which institutions provide good care? Some scholars argue that the best way to think about care institutions is to model them upon the family or the market. This paper argues, on the contrary, that when we make explicit some background conditions of good family care, we can apply what we know to better institutionalized caring. After considering elements of bad and good care, from an institutional perspective, the paper argues that…
Care as a Basis for Radical Political Judgments
The best framework for moral and political thought is the one that creates the best climate for good political judgments. I argue that universalistic theories of justice fall short in this regard because they cannot distinguish idealization from abstraction. After describing how an ethic of care guides judgments, I suggest the practical effects that make this approach preferable. The ethic of care includes more aspects of human life in making pol…
Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care
Beyond the Global Care Chain
Revisiting the Global Care Chain literature, we reflect on the ways in which care functions as a moral discourse that simultaneously resonates with local people and helps to promote neoliberalization in contexts that are often left out of the literature. We argue that care, both as concept and practice, inflects the broadest moral contradiction, ambivalence and hybridity of our social and political world today. Critiques of inequalities in global…
The “Nanny” Question in Feminism
Are social movements responsible for their unfinished agendas? Feminist successes in opening the professions to women paved the way for the emergence of the upper middle-class two-career household. These households sometimes hire domestic servants to accomplish their child care work. If, as I shall argue, this practice is unjust and furthers social inequality, then it poses a moral problem for any feminist commitment to social justice
Assistência democrática e democracias assistenciais
O propósito do cuidado deve ser tornar a sociedade a mais democrática possível, porém muitas relações de cuidado não são relações de igualdade. Neste artigo, a autora apresenta o esboço de algumas realidades que desafiam as instituições sociais e políticas vinculadas ao cuidado
Time's Place
Spatial metaphors abound in feminist theory. The modest goal of this paper is to reassert the importance of temporal dimensions in thought for feminist thinking. In order to establish this general claim, several kinds of current thinking about time that are problematic for feminists are explored. First, the postmodern compression of time and space is considered from the standpoint of the changes it brings in the nature of care. Second, the privil…
Du care
En dépit d'une littérature abondante, savons-nous véritablement ce qu'est le care ? Dans cet extrait de son célèbre ouvrage Moral Boundaries, l'auteure le définit à la fois comme un système de dispositions bienveillantes et comme une pratique concrète. Si le care implique de déterminer qui doit prendre soin de quoi et ce que signifie une telle responsabilité, est-il nécessairement limité à nos relations les plus intimes ? Pourquoi cette dimension…
Care Ethics
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The Genders of Citizenship
One important legacy of republicanism is the ideal of good citizenship; a related legacy of republicanism is the equation of citizenship and masculinity. These legacies are at once strange and familiar: today, masculinity and citizenship are often conceptualized as discrete and distinctive identities, and some critics, most notably feminists, suggest that in modern democraciesgoodcitizenship and masculinity may even be contradictory ideals. The s…
Ricoeur and the ethics of care
Care goes viral
As the COVID-19 novel coronavirus spread in late 2019, it quickly transformed from a local outbreak to a regional and then an international epidemic. Within three months, it became the global pandemic that many observers believe will irrevocably change the world and how we live in it. Among the most affected aspects of life will be how we organise and practise care and caring
Partiality Based on Relational Responsibilities
Universalistic claims about the nature of justice are presumed to require larger commitments from a global perspective than partialist claims. This essay departs from standard partialist accounts by anchoring partialist claims in a different account of the nature of responsibility. In contrast to substantive responsibility, which is akin to an obligation and derived from principles, relational responsibilities grow out of relationships and their …
The Place of Families
The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility. By Linda C. McClain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 392p. $45.00.Linda McClain's excellent book provides a comprehensive account of the political issues concerning families in United States public policy and a coherent perspective from which to evaluate proposals for change in these policies. Writing as a liberal feminist, McClain has an approach that will no…
The ?Nanny? Question in Feminism
Care ethics in theory and practice
The following interview was occasioned by the award of the Benjamin E. Lippincott Prize to Professor Tronto by the American Political Science Association in recognition of work of exceptional quality and lasting influence by a living political theorist
Demokratie als fürsorgliche Praxis
Long Covid’ and seeing in the pandemic dark
This double special issue of the International Journal of Care and Caring considers the acute shock to caregiving around the world created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, when inviting contributions for this volume, we editorialised that 'care has "come out", emerging from the shadows as a taken-for-granted afterthought in public life'. As we supposed what we expected to learn, we noted that inequalities in both access to and provision of…
Sheldon Wolin’s theoretical practice
Frantz Fanon
Challenges to Creating a Caring Democracy
Whatever else may have emerged from the global pandemic of COVID-19, we should recognize it as a brief moment when concerns for people's health displaced concern for the growth of the political economy. While there were many negative effects of this shift of attention, especially for those who were already the most vulnerable people everywhere, it was a remarkable shift in focus.Will such a concern for care continue to guide policies and people's…
Comment 2
Aquest simposi ofereix una discussió crítica de les lògiques i dinàmiques entorn de la nova perspectiva de la «circulació de la cura» presentades per Loretta Baldassar i Laura Merla en el seu volum titulat Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care. Aquest comentari elogia la precisió d’aquesta nova perspectiva en els estudis sobre família, però alhora ens recorda la vigència de l’aproximació de les «cadenes globals», en la mes…
Violence and social justice
Human Rights, Democracy and Care
Women in Western Political Thought. Susan Moller Okin
Books in Review
Political Science and Caring
Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care
The Women's Caucus for Political Science
Mapping the Moral Domain
Changing Goals and Changing Strategies
Moral Boundaries
In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a women's morality are challenged.Moral Boundaries …
Care as a Basis for Radical Political Judgments
The best framework for moral and political thought is the one that creates the best climate for good political judgments. I argue that universalistic theories of justice fall short in this regard because they cannot distinguish idealization from abstraction. After describing how an ethic of care guides judgments, I suggest the practical effects that make this approach preferable. The ethic of care includes more aspects of human life in making pol…
Truth” and Advocacy
Women Transforming Politics
As the largest political constituency in the United States, women present a radical challenge to the foundations of our political system. The integration of women into political life fundamentally changes the nature of American politics, necessitating a reassessment of the definition of politics, the nature of political action and the purpose of public life. Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader redefines the field of women and polit…
Care Ethics
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Care Ethics
Demokratie als fürsorgliche Praxis
The ?Nanny? Question in Feminism
The “Nanny” Question in Feminism
Are social movements responsible for their unfinished agendas? Feminist successes in opening the professions to women paved the way for the emergence of the upper middle-class two-career household. These households sometimes hire domestic servants to accomplish their child care work. If, as I shall argue, this practice is unjust and furthers social inequality, then it poses a moral problem for any feminist commitment to social justice
Time's Place
Spatial metaphors abound in feminist theory. The modest goal of this paper is to reassert the importance of temporal dimensions in thought for feminist thinking. In order to establish this general claim, several kinds of current thinking about time that are problematic for feminists are explored. First, the postmodern compression of time and space is considered from the standpoint of the changes it brings in the nature of care. Second, the privil…
Political Practices of Care
In this paper the authors argue that the exploration of the nature of needs and rights should begin with the actually existing organization of care and of justice in society. The authors raise two key concerns with this organization: 1) the invisibility of care to some, and 2) the inaccessibility of rights to others. Recent work by care scholars has called attention to the ways the current organization of care work perpetuates the myth of self‐su…
Frantz Fanon
Care as the Work of
Tronto explores the “care crisis” that now pervades advanced industrial societies, in which women are doing more paid work and, consequently, less of the care work of civil society. Tronto urges advanced industrial societies to rethink who is responsible for care and recognize the role that government should play in ensuring that care is provided for those who need it. Unfortunately, citizenship has traditionally been defined in ways that make no…
Human Rights, Democracy and Care
The Ethics of Care
The Place of Families
The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility. By Linda C. McClain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 392p. $45.00.Linda McClain's excellent book provides a comprehensive account of the political issues concerning families in United States public policy and a coherent perspective from which to evaluate proposals for change in these policies. Writing as a liberal feminist, McClain has an approach that will no…
The Genders of Citizenship
One important legacy of republicanism is the ideal of good citizenship; a related legacy of republicanism is the equation of citizenship and masculinity. These legacies are at once strange and familiar: today, masculinity and citizenship are often conceptualized as discrete and distinctive identities, and some critics, most notably feminists, suggest that in modern democraciesgoodcitizenship and masculinity may even be contradictory ideals. The s…
Assistência democrática e democracias assistenciais
O propósito do cuidado deve ser tornar a sociedade a mais democrática possível, porém muitas relações de cuidado não são relações de igualdade. Neste artigo, a autora apresenta o esboço de algumas realidades que desafiam as instituições sociais e políticas vinculadas ao cuidado
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