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Author:   Diana Tietjens Meyers
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.734kg
ISBN:  

9780199975877

ISBN 10:   0199975876
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   11 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction, Diana Tietjens Meyers Part 1: Thinking through the Meanings of Poverty 1. Surviving Poverty, Claudia Card 2. Poverty Knowledge, Coercion, and Social Rights: A Discourse Ethical Contribution to Social Epistemology, David Ingram 3. Rethinking Coercion for a World of Poverty and Transnational Migration, Diana Tietjens Meyers Part 2: Ethical Responses to Poverty 4. Responsibility for Violations of the Human Right to Subsistence, Elizabeth Ashford 5. Global Poverty, Decent Work, and Remedial Responsibilities: What the Developed World Owes to the Developing World and Why, Gillian Brock 6. Trafficking in Human Beings: Partial Compliance Theory, Enforcement Failure, and Obligations to Victims, Leslie P. Francis and John Francis 7. ""Are My Hands Clean?"" Responsibility for Global Gender Disparities, Alison Jaggar Part 3: Promoting Development and Ensuring Agency 8. Agency and Intervention: How (Not) to Fight Global Poverty, Ann Cudd 9. Empowerment Through Self-Subordination?: Microcredit and Women's Agency, Serene J. Khader 10. Paradoxes of Development: Rethinking the Right to Development, Amy Allen Part 4: Transnational Transactions and Human Rights 11. Poverty, Voluntariness, and Consent to Participate in Research, Alan Wertheimer 12. Children's Rights, Parental Agency and the Case for Non-coercive Responses to Care Drain, Anca Gheaus 13. Human Rights and Global Wrongs: The Role of Human Rights Discourse in Responses to Trafficking, John Christman Index"

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This volume, a collection of 13 new essays edited by Meyers (emer, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs), is an in-depth, comprehensive exploration of various aspects of poverty, agency, and human rights... A handy volume on contemporary global poverty, this collection of philosophical papers is recommended for students, educators, and practitioners from the social sciences and humanities concerned with the issues of poverty, globalization, development studies, and international human rights. Choice

Meyers's collection is an important contribution to the philosophical discussions surrounding moral responsibility for global injustice, global poverty, and moral agency more generally. Meyers's book and the essays contained in it provide a crucial starting point for more discussions to come, which will hopefully lead to more developed and nuanced ways of understanding the complex links between poverty and agency. Only when we fully understand these links between human action and the moral wrongs of poverty will we be in a position to effectively motivate and enact the changes necessary to finally eradicate avoidable, human-caused poverty on a global scale. This project is a profound step in that direction. Heather Stewart, Hypatia Reviews Online I strongly recommend this collection to anyone interested in present philosophical debates on global poverty and human rights. Sean Aas, Australasian Journal of Philosophy The volume Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights is an important contribution to the fields of global ethics and justice. ... The volume is, thus, deeply concerned about practical issues in nonideal theory. We believe that this represents a significant improvement over several of the earlier contributions to global ethics and justice. Julian Culip, Ethics Human rights practitioners have been stressing the importance of community participation and stakeholder engagement for some time, so it is helpful to see... what a philosophical argument for incorporating these considerations would look like. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews A handy volume on contemporary global poverty, this collection of philosophical papers is recommended for students, educators, and practitioners from the social sciences and humanities concerned with the issues of poverty, globalization, development studies, and international human rights. S. Chaudhuri, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, CHOICE This volume, a collection of 13 new essays edited by Meyers (emer, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs), is an in-depth, comprehensive exploration of various aspects of poverty, agency, and human rights... A handy volume on contemporary global poverty, this collection of philosophical papers is recommended for students, educators, and practitioners from the social sciences and humanities concerned with the issues of poverty, globalization, development studies, and international human rights. Choice

A handy volume on contemporary global poverty, this collection of philosophical papers is recommended for students, educators, and practitioners from the social sciences and humanities concerned with the issues of poverty, globalization, development studies, and international human rights. S. Chaudhuri, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, CHOICE This volume, a collection of 13 new essays edited by Meyers (emer, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs), is an in-depth, comprehensive exploration of various aspects of poverty, agency, and human rights... A handy volume on contemporary global poverty, this collection of philosophical papers is recommended for students, educators, and practitioners from the social sciences and humanities concerned with the issues of poverty, globalization, development studies, and international human rights. Choice

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Diana Tietjens Meyers is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She has held the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Social Ethics at Loyola University, Chicago and the Laurie Chair in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She works in three main areas of philosophy - philosophy of action, feminist ethics, and human rights theory. She is currently writing a monograph, Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights.

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