Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements - Deveaux, Monique (Professor and Chair in Ethics and Global Social Ch
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This book rejects familiar ethical framings of problems of poverty and inequality, arguing that they have produced apolitical solutions that ignore the demands of poor organizations and movements. Deveaux argues that normative thinking about poverty should engage with the insights and goals of "pro-poor" activists in order to develop action-guiding norms that better align with their justice claims. Defending the idea of a political responsibility for solidarity, she shows how nonpoor outsiders--individuals, institutions, and states--can help to advance a radical anti-poverty agenda by supporting the efforts of these movements.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book rejects familiar ethical framings of problems of poverty and inequality, arguing that they have produced apolitical solutions that ignore the demands of poor organizations and movements. Deveaux argues that normative thinking about poverty should engage with the insights and goals of "pro-poor" activists in order to develop action-guiding norms that better align with their justice claims. Defending the idea of a political responsibility for solidarity, she shows how nonpoor outsiders--individuals, institutions, and states--can help to advance a radical anti-poverty agenda by supporting the efforts of these movements.
Autorenporträt
Monique Deveaux is Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States (Oxford University Press, 2006), Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice (Cornell University Press, 2000), and a co-editor of volumes on multiculturalism and the thought of philosopher Onora O'Neill. She has written widely on diversity, deliberative democracy, gender equality, exploitation, and poverty.