Martin Robb

My latest Substack post is a personal reflection on the experience of organising care for ageing parents, and the difficulty of acknowledging one's need for care.

2025 was an excellent year for new books on care theory. Here's my review.

Latest Substack post, reviewing some often overlooked research and writing on care from Italy, Spain and Portugal.

In the latest episode of the Careful Thinking podcast, I talk with American legal scholar @erikabachiochi about the history of the women's rights movement, men's and women's roles in care, and what a Catholic feminist perspective on care might look like.

@SubstackStatus Is Substack down? (5/12/25)

@Parisianaes1 Philosophy

Name something France does better than any other country.

My latest Substack post discusses the affinity between care ethics and phenomenology, prompted by the recent publication of a French book on the phenomenology of care.

In my latest Substack post, I reflect on my podcast interview with Alisha Ibkar, about her research with the protesting Muslim grandmothers of Shaheen Bagh, Delhi, and the role of care - and performance - in political action.

@LawrenceOP @Dominican_Order Thank you for highlighting this. The Universalis app simply says it's 'All Souls' today (in the Westminster diocese, anyway) and doesn't mention St Martin, sad to say.

The @Dominican_Order rejoices today on the feast day of the great Saint Martin de Porres, a lay brother of the Convent of St Dominic in Lima, Peru. Renowned for his compassion and gifts of healing, he is patron of our mission in the Caribbean which is in urgent need of aid this year. May he pray for us! If you want to help the friars to provide emergency aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, visit: english.op.org/support-us/don… flic.kr/p/2rDdw4Y 📷 Statue of St Martin in the Dominican priory church in Cordoba, Argentina.

New Substack post about eminent psychologist Carol Gilligan's recent revisiting and critique of her 1982 publication, 'In a Different Voice', which many regard as the foundational text of care ethics.

In my latest post, I recommend some brilliant care-related newsletters that I've come across on Substack.

My government is going to reward the murderers of this beautiful family. The horror of it.

Fathers and their children. 🥰

Surprising poll shows that Britons and French know the difference betwen moral imperative and shabby cynicism. NEW by @jlpartnerspolls: only 13% of Brits - and just 11% of Labour voters (big surprise) - support recognising a state of Palestine with no conditions. 51% oppose recognition while Hamas still controls Gaza. Similarly a French poll shows 71% of French reject recognition of Palestine state now, 38% want recognition after release of hostages and surrender of Hamas, 33% reject any recognition in short time. A peaceful Palestinian republic alongside a safe Jewish republic is essential. Both polls reveal that while Hamas is still holding 48 Israeli hostages, trying to keep repressive control in Gaza and aiming to eliminate Israel, it is way too early, a direct reward for Hamas terrorism and ammoral act of Anglo-French impotence and santimonious performance that may make two states less likely. At the moment there is no state, no constitution, no borders and no elected leadership. The pathway to a settlement can only be negotiated and recognition now is unwise for it will strengthen Hamas and undermine Fatah. The foreign policy of a great (or even middling) power can not be dictated by fear of an aggressive cohort of extreme Labour activists who will never be satisfied by this. The poll shows that the topline numbers that often get reported - eg that Brits and French publics support recognition - are misleading and the truth is very different.

New Substack post - out today. Subscribe for free to get regular updates on care-related content and linked podcast episodes.

My Careful Thinking podcast is back from its summer break, and in this first episode of the autumn, I talk with my @OpenUniversity colleague Vince Mitchell @mightywhippet about his important research on the ethical challenges of caring for people with dementia.

I'm editing a special issue of the journal 'Genealogy' on 'Fatherhood, Memory and Identity' and invite contributions, from any disciplinary background, that explore these issues in creative and innovative ways, . Full details here: mdpi.com/journal/geneal…

Here's a reminder of my latest Substack post, in which I review this important new contribution to the growing literature on the ethics and aesthetics of care.

Where are the protests, academic boycotts, etc?

Thanks, @ActChris for posting this link to my review.