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Book Synopsis Political Responsibility Refocused by : Genevieve Johnson
Download or read book Political Responsibility Refocused written by Genevieve Johnson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our highly globalized and networked society, even our most seemingly local actions can have far-reaching social, political, economic, and environmental consequences. Has this changed our moral and political obligations towards people distant from us in space and time – for instance, to generations who are not yet or no longer living, or towards those beyond the borders of our own nations? Political Responsibility Refocused explores the theoretical foundations and practical implications of individual and collective responsibility towards those who are spatially or temporally separate from us. These essays offer critical assessments of our political responsibilities on topics such as residential schools, sweatshop labour, climate change, and forms of energy generation. Inspired by the final published writings of political and social theorist Iris Marion Young, specifically her outline of a “social connection model” of political responsibility, the contributors assess whether there are practices, policies, and institutions that could meaningfully address these expanded political responsibilities.
Book Synopsis Political Responsibility Refocused by : Genevieve Fuji Johnson
Download or read book Political Responsibility Refocused written by Genevieve Fuji Johnson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our highly globalized and networked society, even our most seemingly local actions can have far-reaching social, political, economic, and environmental consequences. Has this changed our moral and political obligations towards people distant from us in space and time for instance, to generations who are not yet or no longer living, or towards those beyond the borders of our own nations? Political Responsibility Refocused explores the theoretical foundations and practical implications of individual and collective responsibility towards those who are spatially or temporally separate from us. These essays offer critical assessments of our political responsibilities on topics such as residential schools, sweatshop labour, climate change, and forms of energy generation. Inspired by the final published writings of political and social theorist Iris Marion Young, specifically her outline of a social connection model of political responsibility, the contributors assess whether there are practices, policies, and institutions that could meaningfully address these expanded political responsibilities.
Book Synopsis Responsibility for Justice by : Iris Marion Young
Download or read book Responsibility for Justice written by Iris Marion Young and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Responsibility for Justice', Young discusses our responsibilities to address 'structural' injustices in which we - among many - are implicated, but not to blame. Young argues that addressing these structural injustices requires a new model of responsibility, which she calls the 'social connection' model.
Book Synopsis Responsibilities for Justice by : Lukas Sparenborg
Download or read book Responsibilities for Justice written by Lukas Sparenborg and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Burdens of Political Responsibility by : Jade Schiff
Download or read book Burdens of Political Responsibility written by Jade Schiff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burdens of Political Responsibility discusses experiences of political responsibility through a variety of disciplines, including political theory, phenomenology, sociology, and literary criticism.
Book Synopsis Political Responsibility by : Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo
Download or read book Political Responsibility written by Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing value of political responsibility and the vibrant life it represents as an effective response to power. Sounding the alarm for those who care about robust forms of civic engagement, this book fights for a new conception of political responsibility that meets the challenges of today's democratic practice. Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo forcefully argues against the notion that modern predicaments of power can only be addressed ethically or philosophically through pristine concepts that operate outside of the political realm. By returning to the political, the individual is reintroduced to the binding principles of participatory democracy and the burdens of acting and thinking as a member of a collective. Vázquez-Arroyo historicizes the ethical turn to better understand its ascendence and reworks Adorno's dialectic of responsibility to reassert the political in contemporary thought and theory.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Responsibility by : Chad Lavin
Download or read book The Politics of Responsibility written by Chad Lavin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent argument for political responsibility, rooted in responsive action
Book Synopsis With Power Comes Responsibility by : Maeve McKeown
Download or read book With Power Comes Responsibility written by Maeve McKeown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it? In answering these questions Maeve McKeown goes beyond the widely accepted narrative of unintended consequences and blameless participation to explain how power and responsibility truly function in today's world. Drawing on case studies from sweatshops to climate change, McKeown identifies three types of structural injustice: the pure and unintended accumulation of disparate activities; the avoidable injustice that could be ameliorated by the powerful but nevertheless continues; the deliberate perpetuation of structural processes that benefit powerful political and economic agents. In each of these, the role of power is different which changes the allocation of responsibility. From this understanding, we can shape a deeper, more sophisticated idea of how structural injustice operates and what we as individuals can do about it. What is the political responsibility of ordinary individuals? How can ordinary individuals with very little power pressure morally responsible, powerful agents to address structural injustice? Do we have the same responsibility for historical injustice as we do for that which we see in today's world? This is fundamental reassessment of the relationship between power, ordinary people and responsibility for structural injustice.
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Book Synopsis Political Responsibility by : Antonio Vázquez-arroyo
Download or read book Political Responsibility written by Antonio Vázquez-arroyo and published by New Directions in Critical The. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing value of political responsibility and the vibrant life it represents as an effective response to power. Sounding the alarm for those who care about robust forms of civic engagement, this book fights for a new conception of political responsibility that meets the challenges of today's democratic practice. Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo forcefully argues against the notion that modern predicaments of power can only be addressed ethically or philosophically through pristine concepts that operate outside of the political realm. By returning to the political, the individual is reintroduced to the binding principles of participatory democracy and the burdens of acting and thinking as a member of a collective. Vázquez-Arroyo historicizes the ethical turn to better understand its ascendence and reworks Adorno's dialectic of responsibility to reassert the political in contemporary thought and theory.
Book Synopsis The Concept of Political Responsibility by :
Download or read book The Concept of Political Responsibility written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility by : Cornelia Ulbert
Download or read book Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility written by Cornelia Ulbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when globalization has side-lined many of the traditional, state-based addressees of legal accountability, it is not clear yet how blame is allocated and contested in the new, highly differentiated, multi-actor governance arrangements of the global economy and world society. Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility investigates how actors in complex governance arrangements assign responsibilities to order the world and negotiate who is responsible for what and how. The book asks how moral duties can be defined beyond the territorial and legal confines of the nation-state; and how obligations and accountability mechanisms for a post-national world, in which responsibility remains vague, ambiguous and contested, can be established. Using an empirical as well as a theoretical perspective, the book explores ontological framings of complexity emphasizing emergence and non-linearity, which challenge classic liberal notions of responsibility and moral agency based on the autonomous subject. Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility is perfect for scholars from International Relations, Politics, Philosophy and Political Economy with an interest in the topical and increasingly popular topics of moral agency and complexity.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Security/Development in the Neoliberal Age by : Rina Kashyap
Download or read book The Political Economy of Security/Development in the Neoliberal Age written by Rina Kashyap and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds upon Foucauldian scholarship’s compelling interrogations that have contributed to the changing conceptualization of the premises of the discipline of International Relations. This epistemological ‘glasnost’ facilitates the analysis of the United Nations General Assembly endorsed ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) as not merely a security but a security/development measure. This book unpacks the conditions that on one hand necessitate such measures and on the other hand, allow the subsequent dilution of their radical promise. This framing and analysis of R2P has implications beyond R2P. Increasingly, citizens converted into populations are shepherded by the state to chambers of partial, if not total surrender of civil liberties, standard of living, and well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated such measures for people in the Global South, who since the inception of the post Second World War order continue to await their turn to be the beneficiary of development. The development, initially prescribed by the modernization theorists, echoed subsequently in the 1980s by the good governance promoter—World Bank—continues to elude most in the Global South. Indeed, the region’s political and economic instability is often the site that renders as a truism, Foucault’s upending of Clausewitz’s dictum—‘War is the pursuit of politics by other means’—with ‘Politics is the pursuit of war by other means.’ The thanatopolitics (politics of death) of these ‘failed,’ ‘failing,’ or ‘flailing,’ states, is the reason why their populations are seen to be in frequent need for the operationalization of the international community’s ‘responsibility to protect.’
Book Synopsis Political Responsibility by : F. Kendall Brown
Download or read book Political Responsibility written by F. Kendall Brown and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of our inquiry is what we believe to be the waning of the idea of political responsibility in our time. To set the stage for this consideration, we shall devote the first two chapters after our introduction to psychological and philosophical doctrines such as behaviorism and fatalism which tend to vitiate responsibility, political and otherwise. Our fourth and most important chapter, however, contains our main thesis and can best be summarized as follows: It seems to be characteristic of our age, embittered as it is by wars, both “hot” and “cold,” that little neutral ground is permitted to exist and that few are allowed any longer to consider themselves to be noncombatants. We are held to be “responsible” because we are “citizens” of our collectivities. Apparently gone forever is the attitude exemplified in Edmund Burke’s judicious refusal to indict who nations. Yet, as Dwight MacDonald has argued, responsibility may have been democratized but political power has not. We are “citizens” in a far more tenuous sense that a traditional definition of this ancient concept would seem to imply. If, as “citizens,” we remonstrate against that we consider to be a grievous wrong, we are all too likely either not to get a response at all or, if a response is elicited, it is frequently in the form of a public relations campaign designed to eliminate or evade rather than to meet our criticism. Thus, if our argument is correct, we are becoming victims of a public discourse so corrupted that responsibility is assigned to us for matters beyond our power of choice, and we are called “citizens” even where we are virtually powerless. Against the background of these consideratins, our consistent position will be that responsibility can only exist where there is some measure of choice. As a corollary, we hold that political responsibility should be thought of as proportional to political power. Furthermore, we shall argue that notions of collective responsibility, particularly collective political responsibility, are in most instances, spurious and tend to weaken rather than augment in an individual sense of responsibility. Yet, valid as these propositions may be, they do not go to the core of what we mean by responsibility. We must and shall attempt to give an account of what we believe underlies responsibility and its derivative, political responsibility. We hold that underlying the notion of responsibility is the response or answerability for our conduct which we tacitly or explicitly owe one another as members of a community. Responsibility thus implies the answerability of social reciprocity. Answerability can also became what we call accountability where the relationship is hallowed by political custom or codified into law. We thus emphasize that responsibility is based on public discourse. Specifically, in considering political responsibility, we must be mindful that politics is, par excellence, a speaking existence. If this is so, then both politics and responsibility are what we shall call “middle range” terms in that as with all forms of discourse, they fall between the extremes of the speechless wonder of the sage on the one hand, and the unspeakable atrocities of our age on the other hand. In a sense, both of these phenomena lie outside the domain of politics even though they can and often do have profound effects on our political world. If what we have said is true, there is a further implication which we must confront. This is that the corruption and debasement of public discourse not only undermines responsibility but also constitutes an attack on the community itself. This last point is the focus of much of our inquiry in Chapter IV. Finally, our fifth and last chapter will deal briefly with intellectual responsibility.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory by : Teena Gabrielson
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory written by Teena Gabrielson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT). Featuring contributions from distinguished political scientists working in this field, this volume addresses canonical theorists and contemporary environmental problems with a diversity of theoretical approaches. The initial volume focuses on EPT as a field of inquiry, engaging both traditions of political thought and the academy. In the second section, the handbook explores conceptualizations of nature and the environment, as well as the nature of political subjects, communities, and boundaries within our environments. A third section addresses the values that motivate environmental theorists—including justice, responsibility, rights, limits, and flourishing—and the potential conflicts that can emerge within, between, and against these ideals. The final section examines the primary structures that constrain or enable the achievement of environmental ends, as well as theorizations of environmental movements, citizenship, and the potential for on-going environmental action and change.
Book Synopsis Responsibility in Environmental Governance by : Tobias Gumbert
Download or read book Responsibility in Environmental Governance written by Tobias Gumbert and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive study of the notion of responsibility in environmental governance. It starts with the observation that, although the rhetoric of responsibility is indeed all-pervasive in environmental and sustainability-related fields, decisive political action is still lacking. Governance architectures increasingly strive to hold different stakeholders responsible by installing accountability and transparency mechanisms to manage environmental problems, yet the structural background conditions affecting these issues continue to generate unevenly distributed, socially unjust, and ecologically devastating consequences. Responsibility in Environmental Governance develops the concept of responsibility as an analytical approach to map and understand these dynamics and to situate diverse meanings of responsibility within larger socio-political contexts. It applies this approach to the study of food waste governance, uncovering a narrow governance focus on accountability, optimization, and consumer behavior change strategies, opening up spaces for organizing more democratic solutions to a truly global problem.
Book Synopsis Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements by : Monique Deveaux
Download or read book Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements written by Monique Deveaux and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] license. It is free to read at [Oxford Scholarship Online] and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Poverty is not only about material deprivation, but also about the subordination and disempowerment of poor populations. So why isn't the emancipation and empowerment of the poor a core goal of ethical arguments for poverty reduction? Deveaux argues in this book that philosophers fail to prioritize these ends, and to recognize the moral and political agency of poor people, because they still conceive of poverty narrowly and apolitically as mere needs scarcity. By comparison, poor activists and critical poverty researchers who see deprivation as structural exclusion and powerlessness advocate a "poor-centered," poor-led, approach to reducing poverty. Stuck in an older paradigm of poverty thinking, philosophers have failed to recognize the power and moral authority of poor communities--and their movements for justice and social change. If normative ethicists seek to contribute to proposals for just and durable poverty reduction, they will need to look to the insights and aims of "pro-poor," poor-led social movements. From rural landless workers in Brazil, to urban shack dwellers in South Africa, to unemployed workers impoverished by neoliberal economic policies in Argentina, poor-led organizations and movements advance a more political understanding of poverty--and of what is needed to eradicate it. Deveaux shows how these groups develop the political consciousness and collective capabilities of poor communities and help to create the basis for solidarity among poor populations. Defending the idea of a political responsibility for solidarity, she shows how nonpoor outsiders--individuals, institutions, and states--can help to advance a transformative anti-poverty agenda by supporting the efforts of these movements.
Book Synopsis Eco-Emancipation by : Sharon R. Krause
Download or read book Eco-Emancipation written by Sharon R. Krause and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploited Human domination of nature shapes every aspect of our lives today, even as it remains virtually invisible to us. Because human beings are a part of nature, the human domination of nature circles back to confine and exploit people as well—and not only the poor and marginalized but also the privileged and affluent, even in the world’s most prosperous societies. Although modern democracy establishes constraints intended to protect people from domination as the arbitrary exercise of power, it offers few such protections for nonhuman parts of nature. The result is that, wherever we fall in human hierarchies, we inevitably find ourselves both complicit in and entrapped by a system that makes sustainable living all but impossible. It confines and exploits not only nature but people too, albeit in different ways. In Eco-Emancipation, Sharon Krause argues that we can find our way to a better, freer life by constraining the use of human power in relation to nature and promoting nature’s well-being alongside our own, thereby releasing the Earth from human domination and freeing us from a way of life that is both exploitative and exploited, complicit and entrapped. Eco-emancipation calls for new, more-than-human political communities that incorporate nonhuman parts of nature through institutions of representation and regimes of rights, combining these new institutional arrangements with political activism, a public ethos of respect for nature, and a culture of eco-responsibility.
