ISBN:
9780199975877
,
9780199975884
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XII, 360 S.
Paralleltitel:
Online-Ausg. Poverty, agency, and human rights
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Poverty, agency, and human rights
DDC:
339.4/6
Schlagwort(e):
Poverty Philosophy
;
Human rights
;
Economic development
;
Armut
;
Menschenrecht
Kurzfassung:
"Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights is a collection of thirteen new essays that analyzes how human agency relates to poverty and human rights respectively as well as how agency mediates issues concerning poverty and social and economic human rights. No other collection of philosophical papers focuses on the diverse ways poverty impacts the agency of the poor, the reasons why poverty alleviation schemes should also promote the agency of beneficiaries, and the fitness of the human rights regime to secure both economic development and free agency"--
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Machine generated contents note: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 Gheus -- 13. Human Rights and Global Wrongs: The Role of Human Rights Discourse in Responses to Trafficking, John Christman -- Index.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2014]
