Congratulations on a year podcasting. I've really enjoyed listening to your interviews and I'm learning a lot. I think I found it through Maurice - although I might have listened before. He seems to be a quite a connector and resource for the care ethics community.
Interviewing yourself is a funny innovation. You could go further and convert it to an actual podcast. Apparently, there are some AI tools that will convert written text into an audio podcast. Could be interesting.
A few ideas for future podcasts in case you're looking for them:
* AI and care. I think there is enormous potential for AI to be used to enhance and improve care. I've heard it argued that care requires human labor and human relations/sentiment. And, I don't think I would argue the opposite. But that doesn't mean that tools can't be used to improve care, care provision, care quality, labor efficiency, etc.
* care ethics in context: I'm not an academic, but am studying care ethics as a lay reader. But I"m struck that peoples' ethics are often contextual or that ethics are often in dynamic relationships. In this way, people may hold care ethics, but only apply them in certain contexts and rarely at all moments or for all decisions/actions. Understanding that would be interesting to explore.
* my introduction to care ethics was actually in the context of a movement around "Feminist foreign policy" and one of my mentors in linking to care ethics was Fiona Robinson. I think she would be a great guest for you.
* I agree that it's better to think of care ethics as a robust field with many internal debates and contradictions. I've disagreed with many of your guests, or at least had questions or challenges to things they have said. Maybe a debate would be fun and interesting! Or maybe an explainer to illuminate some of these debates and disagreements?
In any case, your podcast and substack are an amazing resource - especially for an amateur like me. I'm really grateful you're doing it. I assume it's a hobby and you don't get paid for it, so let me say thank you.
Hi Gawain. Thanks for your kind words - much appreciated. And thanks for your suggestions for issues to cover in future episodes - I shall certainly reflect on them as I'm planning the next 12 months of podcasting. And you're right, Fiona Robinson would make a great guest. I heard her speak at the inaugural care ethics consortium conference in Portland, but I must confess I don't know her work very well (I'd have to address that before inviting her!). Finally - yes, I do this purely out of personal interest - though there's obviously some overlap with my 'day job' as an academic researching care issues - and I don't get paid for it! Thank you for your support for the podcast over the past year.
Also, Gawain, I see that you know Nikki van der Gaag - presumably via Oxfam. I know Nikki through my research with fathers - she's now at Equimundo, and I saw her in London last year at the launch of the report on the state of the world's fathers, to which she contributed.
Hi Martin,
Congratulations on a year podcasting. I've really enjoyed listening to your interviews and I'm learning a lot. I think I found it through Maurice - although I might have listened before. He seems to be a quite a connector and resource for the care ethics community.
Interviewing yourself is a funny innovation. You could go further and convert it to an actual podcast. Apparently, there are some AI tools that will convert written text into an audio podcast. Could be interesting.
A few ideas for future podcasts in case you're looking for them:
* AI and care. I think there is enormous potential for AI to be used to enhance and improve care. I've heard it argued that care requires human labor and human relations/sentiment. And, I don't think I would argue the opposite. But that doesn't mean that tools can't be used to improve care, care provision, care quality, labor efficiency, etc.
* care ethics in context: I'm not an academic, but am studying care ethics as a lay reader. But I"m struck that peoples' ethics are often contextual or that ethics are often in dynamic relationships. In this way, people may hold care ethics, but only apply them in certain contexts and rarely at all moments or for all decisions/actions. Understanding that would be interesting to explore.
* my introduction to care ethics was actually in the context of a movement around "Feminist foreign policy" and one of my mentors in linking to care ethics was Fiona Robinson. I think she would be a great guest for you.
* I agree that it's better to think of care ethics as a robust field with many internal debates and contradictions. I've disagreed with many of your guests, or at least had questions or challenges to things they have said. Maybe a debate would be fun and interesting! Or maybe an explainer to illuminate some of these debates and disagreements?
In any case, your podcast and substack are an amazing resource - especially for an amateur like me. I'm really grateful you're doing it. I assume it's a hobby and you don't get paid for it, so let me say thank you.
Hi Gawain. Thanks for your kind words - much appreciated. And thanks for your suggestions for issues to cover in future episodes - I shall certainly reflect on them as I'm planning the next 12 months of podcasting. And you're right, Fiona Robinson would make a great guest. I heard her speak at the inaugural care ethics consortium conference in Portland, but I must confess I don't know her work very well (I'd have to address that before inviting her!). Finally - yes, I do this purely out of personal interest - though there's obviously some overlap with my 'day job' as an academic researching care issues - and I don't get paid for it! Thank you for your support for the podcast over the past year.
Also, Gawain, I see that you know Nikki van der Gaag - presumably via Oxfam. I know Nikki through my research with fathers - she's now at Equimundo, and I saw her in London last year at the launch of the report on the state of the world's fathers, to which she contributed.