Download Who Cares? How to Reshape a Democratic Politics: Brown Democracy Medal AudioBook Free
The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental ideals and commitments, from a caring perspective. Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring deficit" - that there are simply too many requirements on our time and energy to care effectively for children, elderly people, and ourselves - she asks us to reconsider how exactly we allocate care tasks. At exactly the same time, while democratic politics should help individuals to care better, most people see caring as unsupported by open public life and deem the concerns of politics as too distant off their lives to make a difference in this sphere. Tronto traces the reasons because of this disconnect and argues for the necessity to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic politics life.
