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Launch of CareVisions Research Report
Launch of CareVisions: Re-Envisioning a Care-Centred Society in Ireland Beyond COVID-19
On Tuesday 12 December an online event was held to launch the final report of the three-year (2020-2023) research project CareVisions: Envisioning a Care-Centred Society Within and Beyond COVID19, which was based in ISS21. The launch opened with a keynote from Joan Tronto, Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota in the US.
The launch included:
- Welcome and opening remarks from Professor Maggie O'Neill, Director of ISS21 and UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures, UCC.
- Keynote presentation from Professor Joan Tronto entitled 'Caring Democracy's Revolutionary Potential'. In this paper Professor Tronto assessed the progress and potential of care and democracy in the current world situation. She argued that there has been both remarkable progress and a punishing backlash against the impetus to make care a more central and visible element of social and political life. While the possibility is real that care will simply become another buzzword in neoliberal policy, Professor Tronto concludes that caring democracy has a revolutionary potential to move beyond economic and militaristic paradigms.
- Presentation on the main findings from the CareVisions research, by the project team: Dr. Claire Edwards, Dr. Felicity Daly, Dr. Carol Kelleher, Dr. Cliona Loughnane, Dr. Jacqui O'Riordan)
- Panel discussion with members of the CareVisions Research Advisory Group
The project report is available at the following link: CareVisions Report. A short, easy read version is available at: CareVisions EasyRead Report
The report launch was co-hosted by CareVisions and ISS21.
Professor Joan Tronto biography
Joan C. Tronto is professor emerita of political science at the City University of New York and the University of Minnesota. She is the author of many works on care ethics, including over 50 articles and several books: Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethics of Care (Routledge, 1993) Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality and Justice (NYU Press, 2013), Le risque ou le “care”? Tr. Fabienne Brugére (2012) (55 pp) and Who Cares? How to Reshape a Democratic Politics (Cornell, 2015) (44 pp). Her work has been translated into more than ten languages.
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