• Cultura popular, lógica populista y horizonte comunitario popular
    In Blanca Fernández García & Antonio Gómez L.-Quiñones (eds.), La lupa roja: ensayos sobre hermenéutica y marxismo, Teseo. 2018.
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    Against ‘The Poor’ as a global category
    Ethics and Global Politics 16 (2): 17-27. 2023.
    Monique Deveaux’s book Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements is an important intervention in global justice dialogues. It explores with nuance the case for viewing persons facing poverty globally as potential agents of justice, and it does excellent work in offering exemplar groups where that potential is actualized. The book may put the final nail in framings of global justice as primarily transfers from ‘rich to poor.’ Yet, it also has a tendency to implicitly reinforce those same…Read more
  • Institutional cosmopolitanism (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
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    Cosmopolitanism is said by many critics to be arrogant. In emphasizing universal principles and granting no fundamental moral significance to national or other group belonging, it wrongly treats those making non-universalist claims as not authorized to speak, while treating those in non-Western societies as not qualified. This book works to address such objections. It does so in part by engaging the work of B.R. Ambedkar, architect of India's 1950 Constitution and revered champion of the country…Read more
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    ‘I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings’: incorporating the study of emotions into grounded normative theory
    with Katie Tonkiss
    Contemporary Political Theory 22 (2): 187-208. 2023.
    This article explores how giving systematic attention to emotions could enhance grounded normative theory accounts. Grounded normative theory, and related approaches featuring an ‘ethnographic sensibility’, involve the conduct of original empirical research and/or analysis in the development of normative arguments. Each has been increasingly visible in normative political theory, focusing on moral claims in contexts such as migration, democratic practice, and grassroots struggles. Yet, while suc…Read more
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    On cosmopolitan humility and the arrogance of states
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (2): 163-187. 2020.
    One of the potentially most significant objections to a cosmopolitan moral approach charges an essential arrogance: cosmopolitanism disdains particularist moral insights even while – in what is said to be its most coherent form – it seeks to bind all persons within global political institutions. It is argued here that adopting a form of institutional cosmopolitanism actually helps to meet this sort of objection. An appropriately configured such approach will have a conception of equal global cit…Read more
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    On cosmopolitan humility and the arrogance of states
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (2): 1-25. 2018.
    One of the potentially most significant objections to a cosmopolitan moral approach charges an essential arrogance: cosmopolitanism disdains particularist moral insights even while – in what is said to be its most coherent form – it seeks to bind all persons within global political institutions. It is argued here that adopting a form of institutional cosmopolitanism actually helps to meet this sort of objection. An appropriately configured such approach will have a conception of equal global cit…Read more
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    Unearthing grounded normative theory: practices and commitments of empirical research in political theory
    with Brooke Ackerly, Fonna Forman, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Chris Tenove, and Antje Wiener
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 27 (2): 156-182. 2021.
    Many normative political theorists have engaged in the systematic collection and/or analysis of empirical data to inform the development of their arguments over the past several decades. Yet, the approach they employ has typically not been treated as a distinctive mode of theorizing. It has been mostly overlooked in surveys of normative political theory methods and methodologies, as well as by those critics who assert that political theory is too abstracted from actual political contestation. Ou…Read more
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    Is there a Human Right to Microfinance?
    with Tom Sorell
    In Microfinance, Rights, and Global Justice, . pp. 27-46. 2015.
    This chapter is divided into three parts. In the first, I ask whether there is a human right to be spared extreme poverty. The answer is ‘Not necessarily’ if a human right is a legal right, and I argue that ‘human right’ either means a right in international law and associated policy, or else the term has an unacceptably wide sense. In the second section I consider microcredit as a poverty-alleviating mechanism, distinguishing between extreme and relative poverty in developing countries. I argue…Read more
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    In recent years, some scholars and prominent political figures have advocated the deepening of North American integration on roughly the European Union model, including the creation of new political institutions and the free movement of workers across borders. The construction of such a North American Union, if it included even a very thin trans-state citizenship regime, could represent the most significant expansion of individual entitlements in the region since citizenship was extended to form…Read more
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    Review: Mathias Risse, On Global Justice (review)
    Philosophical Explorations. forthcoming.
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    The Inconveniences of Transnational Democracy
    Ethics and International Affairs 21 (2): 219-238. 2007.
    Suprastate policy formation in such bodies as the WTO remains fundamentally exclusive of individuals within states. This article critiques the "don't kill the goose" arguments commonly offered in defense of such exclusions.
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    The morality of border crossing
    with William Smith
    Contemporary Political Theory 14 (1): 90-99. 2015.
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    Recent years have seen a remarkable resurgence in rigorous thought on global government by leading thinkers in international relations, economics, and political theory. Not since the immediate post-World War II period have so many scholars given serious attention to possibilities for global political integration.This book will be of interest to students of international relations, political theory, international economics, secuity and gender studies. It pulls together some of the leading current…Read more
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    Could global government be the answer to global poverty and starvation? Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong obligations to people elsewhere, but that accountable integration among nation-states will help ensure that all persons can lead a decent life. Cabrera considers both the views of those political philosophe…Read more
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    The Cosmopolitan Imperative: Global Justice Through Accountable Integration
    The Journal of Ethics 9 (1-2): 171-199. 2005.
    Cosmopolitan political theorists hold that our obligations to distribute resources to others do not halt at state borders, but most do not advocate a restructuring of the global system to achieve their distributive aims. This article argues that promoting democratically accountable economic and political integration between states would be the most effective way to enable cosmopolitan, or routine, tax-financed, trans-state distributions. Movement toward a more integrated global system should enc…Read more
  • The Practice of Global Citizenship
    Cambridge University Press. 2010.
    In this novel account of global citizenship, Luis Cabrera argues that all individuals have a global duty to contribute directly to human rights protections and to promote rights-enhancing political integration between states. The Practice of Global Citizenship blends careful moral argument with compelling narratives from field research among unauthorized immigrants, activists seeking to protect their rights, and the 'Minuteman' activists striving to keep them out. Immigrant-rights activists, esp…Read more
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    Interviews, field observations and other qualitative methods are being increasingly used to inform the construction of arguments in normative political theory. This article works to demonstrate the strong salience of some kinds of qualitative material for cosmopolitan arguments to extend distributive boundaries. The incorporation of interviews and related qualitative material can make the moral claims of excluded others more vivid and possibly more difficult to dismiss by advocates of strong pri…Read more
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    Global Citizenship as the Completion of Cosmopolitanism
    Journal of International Political Theory 4 (1): 84-104. 2008.
    A conception of global citizenship should not be viewed as separate from, or synonymous with, the cosmopolitan moral orientation, but as a primary component of it. Global citizenship is fundamentally concerned with individual moral requirements in the global frame. Such requirements, framed here as belonging to the category of individual cosmopolitanism, offer guidelines on right action in the context of global human community. They are complementary to the principles of moral cosmopolitanism — …Read more
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    Grounded normative theory and moral justification
    Journal of Global Ethics 16 (1): 110-115. 2020.
    Volume 16, Issue 1, April 2020, Page 110-115.
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    Introduction: symposium on Brooke Ackerly’s Just Responsibility: A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice
    with Brooke A. Ackerly
    Journal of Global Ethics 16 (1): 95-98. 2020.
    ABSTRACTThis symposium brings together normative and empirical scholars in dialogue on Brooke Ackerly’s innovative and compelling recent monograph, Just Responsibility. Contributors discuss the book’s distinctive grounded normative theory methodology, its arguments for how individuals can take appropriate responsibility for global structural injustices, and its potential for practical impact.