Poverty, agency, and human rights / edited by Diana Tietjens Meyers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyers, Diana T., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Philosophy.

Poverty.

Human rights.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 360 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title collects 13 new philosophical papers that focus 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.

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 E. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 9, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-939691-4