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27Introduction: symposium on Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social MovementsJournal of Global Ethics 19 (3): 221-224. 2023.This symposium on Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements includes commentaries by Sally Matthews, Renante D. Pilapil, Violetta Igneski, and Wouter Peeters, with a reply from Deveaux. The book makes the case that normative thinking about poverty should engage closely with the aims, insights, and actions of poor-led organizations and social movements. Challenging conventional framings of poverty by moral philosophers, Deveaux argues that chronic poverty is centrally a…Read more
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23Reflections on poor-led poverty abolition: a reply to Matthews, Pilapil, Igneski and PeetersJournal of Global Ethics 19 (3): 263-272. 2023.In this reply, I respond to issues raised by Matthews, Pilapil, Igneski and Peeters in their commentaries on Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements. They pose important definitional, conceptual, and normative questions and challenges. My response acknowledges that the diversity and fluidity of political activism by people in poverty complicates questions of political cooperation and solidarity – and makes the prospect of poor-led poverty abolition and social change seem dim. The norm…Read more
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6Reply to critics – Ethics & global politics book symposium on Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social MovementsEthics and Global Politics 16 (2): 55-64. 2023.I am grateful for these rich and probing engagements with my book. Unlike some of the audiences to whom I first presented these ideas a decade ago – who worried that treating poor people as agents...
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9Exploitation: From Practice to TheoryRowman & Littlefield. 2017.Contemporary theoretical discussions of exploitation are dominated by thinkers in the liberal and Marxian traditions. Exploitation: From Practice to Theory, pushes past these traditional and binary explanations, to focus on unjust practises that both depend on and perpetuate inequalities central to exploitation. Using real-world examples, the chapters in this collection address key questions, including, in what ways are exploitation practices globalised, racialized and gendered? How do cases of …Read more
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334Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-led Social MovementsOxford University Press. 2021.This book, now open-access from OUP, develops a normative theory of political responsibility for solidarity with poor populations by engaging closely with empirical studies of poor-led social movements in the Global South. Monique Deveaux rejects familiar ethical framings of problems of poverty and inequality by arguing that normative thinking about antipoverty remedies needs to engage closely with the aims, insights, and actions of “pro-poor,” poor-led social movements. Defending the idea of a …Read more
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1Mary Jeanne Larrabee, ed., An Ethic of Care Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (4): 272-274. 1994.
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47Normative liberal theory and the bifurcation of human rightsEthics and Global Politics 2 (3). 2009.This article argues that liberal arguments for human rights minimalism, such as those of John Rawls and Michael Ignatieff, contain fundamental inconsistencies in their treatment of core rights to life and liberty. Insofar as their versions of minimalism foreground rights to physical security and basic freedom of movement, they cannot coherently exclude certain social and economic protections and liberties that directly support or are even partly constitutive of these rights. Nor do they have goo…Read more
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1Will Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (5): 349-351. 2001.
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75The Global Poor as Agents of JusticeJournal of Moral Philosophy 10 (4): 125-150. 2013.“Agent-centered” approaches to global poverty insist that effective arguments for poverty reduction must specify the concrete duties of particular duty-bearers. This article takes up a recent, influential, version of this view, Thomas Pogge’s human rights-based argument for global economic reforms to reduce chronic deprivation. While signaling a welcome shift from the diffuse allocation of responsibilities common to much philosophical writing on poverty, I argue that Pogge’s approach too readily…Read more
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862The Underrepresentation of Women in Prestigious Ethics JournalsHypatia 32 (4): 928-939. 2017.It has been widely reported that women are underrepresented in academic philosophy as faculty and students. This article investigates whether this representation may also occur in the domain of journal article publishing. Our study looked at whether women authors were underrepresented as authors in elite ethics journals — Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, the Journal of Political Philosophy, and the Journal of Moral Philosophy — between 2004-2014, relative to the proportion of women employed …Read more
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32The Global Poor as Agents of JusticeJournal of Moral Philosophy 11 (4). 2014.“Agent-centered” approaches to global poverty insist that effective arguments for poverty reduction must specify the concrete duties of particular duty-bearers. This article takes up a recent, influential, version of this view, Thomas Pogge’s human rights-based argument for global economic reforms to reduce chronic deprivation. While signaling a welcome shift from the diffuse allocation of responsibilities common to much philosophical writing on poverty, I argue that Pogge’s approach too readily…Read more
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41Shifting Paradigms: Theorizing Care and Justice in Political TheoryHypatia 10 (2). 1995.The following is an introduction to a roundtable panel of the American Political Science Association meeting (Normative Political Theory Division) held September 2, 1994, in New York City. I set out some main themes in the "care/justice debate," and suggest that the impasse between care proponents and liberal, neo-Kantian thinkers is perpetuated by caricatured construals of these theories; salient differences come into relief by addressing the ethical and political applications of these moral pe…Read more
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37The Global Poor as Agents of JusticeJournal of Moral Philosophy 12 (2): 125-150. 2015.“Agent-centered” approaches to global poverty insist that effective arguments for poverty reduction must specify the concrete duties of particular duty-bearers. This article takes up a recent, influential, version of this view, Thomas Pogge’s human rights-based argument for global economic reforms to reduce chronic deprivation. While signaling a welcome shift from the diffuse allocation of responsibilities common to much philosophical writing on poverty, I argue that Pogge’s approach too readily…Read more
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53Poor-Led Social Movements and Global JusticePolitical Theory 46 (5): 698-725. 2018.Political philosophers’ prescriptions for poverty alleviation have overlooked the importance of social movements led by, and for, the poor in the global South. I argue that these movements are normatively and politically significant for poverty reduction strategies and global justice generally. While often excluded from formal political processes, organized poor communities nonetheless lay the groundwork for more radical, pro-poor forms of change through their grassroots resistance and organizin…Read more
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72Personal Autonomy and Cultural TraditionThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 7 87-92. 2007.The value and importance accorded to personal autonomy within liberalism would seem to suggest that cultural practices that severely constrain the choices of individuals through heavyhanded role socialization and restriction ought to be strongly discouraged in liberal societies. In this paper, I explore this claim in connection with the custom of arranged marriage, which has recently come under fire in some liberal democratic states, notably Britain. My aim is to try to complicate the liberal un…Read more
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41Re-evaluating Sufficientarianism in Light of Evidence of Inequality’s HarmsEthics and Social Welfare 12 (2): 97-116. 2018.
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46Exploitation, structural injustice, and the cross-border trade in human ovaJournal of Global Ethics 12 (1): 48-68. 2016.ABSTRACTGlobal demand for human ova in in vitro fertilization has led to its expansion in countries with falling average incomes and rising female unemployment. Paid egg donation in the context of national, regional, and global inequalities has the potential to exploit women who are socioeconomically vulnerable, and indeed there is ample evidence that it does. Structural injustices that render women in middle-income countries – and even some high-income countries – economically vulnerable contri…Read more
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4Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, Martha Nussbaum, and Susan M. Okin, eds., Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (3): 162-164. 2000.
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48Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal StatesOxford University Press. 2006.This book offers a persuasive new argument for reconciling the tensions that arise when liberal democratic states try to protect two important kinds of equality: sexual equality and cultural equality.
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18IntroductionJournal of Global Ethics 9 (2). 2013.(2013). Introduction. Journal of Global Ethics: Vol. 9, Critical Approaches to Global Justice: At the Frontier, pp. 111-114. doi: 10.1080/17449626.2013.818467
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93Agonism and pluralismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 25 (4): 1-22. 1999.This paper assesses the claim that an agonistic model of democracy could foster greater accommodation of citizens' social, cultural and ethical differences than mainstream liberal theories. I address arguments in favor of agonistic conceptions of politics by a diverse group of democratic theorists, ranging from republican theorists - Hannah Arendt and Benjamin Barber - to postmodern democrats concerned with questions of identity and difference, such as William Connolly and Bonnie Honig. Neither …Read more
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394A Deliberative Approach to Conflicts of CulturePolitical Theory 31 (6): 780-807. 2003.How should liberal democratic states respond to cultural practices and arrangements that run afoul of liberal norms and laws? This article argues for a reframing of the challenges posed by traditional or nonliberal cultural minorities. The author suggests that viewed from up close, such dilemmas are revealed to be primarily intracultural rather than intercultural conflicts, and reflect the political and practical interests of factions of communities much more than deep moral differences. Using t…Read more
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20Reading Onora o’Neill (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Onora O’Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O’Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissio…Read more
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