Joan Tronto
Joan Tronto is one of the most prominent political theorists working in care ethics. She is mentioned twice in Kim, H. J. and B. Grofman (2019). “The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield.” PS: Political Science & Politics 52(2): 296-311; she is among the top 25 active political theorists and among the top […]
Joan Tronto is one of the most prominent political theorists working in care ethics. She is mentioned twice in Kim, H. J. and B. Grofman (2019). “The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield.” PS: Political Science & Politics 52(2): 296-311; she is among the top 25 active political theorists and among the top 40 women political scientists in all fields. Tronto’s h index, reported by google, is 39 (November 30, 2021).
Among her numerous publications, she authored (and co-authored) the following books:
Co-Editor, Posthuman and Political Care Ethics for Reconfiguring Higher Education Pedagogies ed. Vivienne
Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Joan Tronto (London: Routledge 2021).
Who Cares? How to Reshape a Democratic Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015). 48 pp.
[Co-authored and translated into Japanese: Yayo Okano, Who Cares?: For a new form of democracy. [Kea
Surunoha Dareka Atarashii Minshusugi no Katachi e ケアするのは誰か?–新しい民主主義のかたちへ] (Tokyo: Hakutaku sha, 2020).
Caring Democracy: Markets, Justice and Equality (New York: NYU Press, 2013).
[Translated and republished in Korean, trans. Hee Kang Kim, 자상 한 민주주의 2014. 2nd ed. 2021.]
Le risque ou le “care”? Tr. Fabienne Brugére. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2012). 57 pp.
[Translated and republished in Spanish, trans. Agustina Blanco, ¿Riesgo o Cuidado ? Epub, Buenos Aires :
Fondación Medifé Edita, 2020.]
Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. (New York, Routledge, 1993).
[Translated and republished: Confini morali: Un argomento politico per L’etica della cura, A cura di Alessandra
Facchi, Tr. Nicola Riva. Reggio Emilia: Edizioni Diabasis, 2006][Translated and republished: Une monde vulnérable : Une proposition politique pour fonder l’éthique du care. Tr. Hervé Maury, Paris : La Découverte, 2009]
[Translated and republished: Για μια πολιτική της μέριμνας (care) σ’ έναν ευάλωτο κόσμο. Athens : Polity, 2011.]
Co-Editor, Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader ed. Cathy Cohen, Kathy Jones, Joan Tronto (New York: New
York University Press, 1997).