Care Ethics Resources

Care ethics has grown from a handful of pioneering books into a lively international conversation. It now spans philosophy, politics, health care, education, the arts, and everyday life. Here are some places I recommend for anyone who wants to explore care, whether you are a student, a scholar, a practitioner, or simply curious. If you know of a resource that belongs here, please let me know.

Substack newsletters

• Careful Thinking by Martin Robb: essays, book reviews, and a companion podcast on care theory and ethics.

• MADE WITH CARE by Elissa Strauss: the culture, philosophy, and politics of parenting and caregiving, with interviews with care thinkers.

• Care, Actually by Robert Espinoza: personal essays on the care workforce, the care economy, and why care systems fail.

• The Fifth Wave by Mélina Magdelénat: a feminist platform of analysis, interviews, and essays on making caregiving fairer and more valued.

Podcasts

• Careful Thinking podcast hosted by Martin Robb: long-form conversations with care scholars.

• Philosophize This! Episode 168: Introduction to an Ethics of Care: an accessible introduction tracing care ethics from Carol Gilligan onward.

• Examining Ethics: Care and Institutions with Elizabeth Lanphier: care, justice, and what an ethic of care looks like in institutions.

• Love & Philosophy: Finding a Philosophy of Care with Elissa Strauss: care ethics in conversation with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil.

• My own interviews are collected on my Media page.

Organizations and networks

• Care Ethics Research Consortium (CERC): the international network of care scholars founded by Joan Tronto and Carlo Leget, which holds regular international conferences.

• CERC email list (JISCMail): the consortium’s listserv for calls for papers, conferences, and news. To join, follow the link and enter your name and email address.

• EthicsofCare.org (Foundation Critical Ethics of Care, the Netherlands): articles, interviews, calls for papers, and event listings from a critical and political care ethics perspective.

• Ethics of Care Initiative, University of Wisconsin–Madison: a learning community of faculty, graduate students, and community members, with a care resources archive.

• Revaluing Care in the Global Economy: an international, interdisciplinary project based at Duke University, with events, blogs, a journal, and a directory of care researchers.

• Care Think: economist Nancy Folbre’s site, with essays, blog posts, and videos on the economics of care.

Introductory reading online

• Care Ethics, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: a free, thorough overview of the field’s history, key figures, and criticisms.

• The Care Manifesto by The Care Collective: a short book making the case for putting care at the center of politics and the economy.

Journals

• International Journal of Care and Caring (Bristol University Press): multidisciplinary research on care, caring, and carers worldwide.