Can AI really help fix the healthcare and caregiving crisis? Is AI revolutionising child care? Questions like these are making headlines and sparking debates worldwide, as the care crisis and AI solutions emerge as one of today’s most pressing topics. Amid a moment of both techno-optimism and uncertainty, I have delved into care by interviewing one of its most prominent experts: Joan C. Tronto, Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.
Tronto has become a leading voice in gender studies through her research on the ethics of care. In 2015, she was awarded the Brown Medal for Democracy for her work, Who Cares?. She later published Caring Democracy, a compelling call to rethink democracy and the values of society from a caring perspective.
The author recently participated in the 2024 “Biennial of Thought” in Barcelona, where we met to discuss care, technology, democracy and development. The following audios contain some excerpts from our interview.
Header image: O. de Ros.
Further reading
TRONTO, Joan C. (1993). Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003070672
TRONTO, Joan C. (2015). Who Cares?: How to Reshape a Democratic Politics (1st ed.). Cornell University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt18kr598
TRONTO, Joan C. (2013). Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice. NYU Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qgfvp