Moral agency and the politics of responsibility / edited by Cornelia Ulbert, Peter Finkenbusch, Elena Sondermann and Tobias Debiel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ulbert, Cornelia, 1965- editor.

Finkenbusch, Peter, editor.

Sondermann, Elena, editor.

Debiel, Tobias, 1963- editor.

Series:

Routledge global cooperation series.

Routledge Global Cooperation Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Moral and ethical aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"At a time when globalization has side-lined many of the traditional, state-based addressees of legal accountability, assigning responsibility is contested in many transnational fields. There, political, economic, and social actors struggle to define the collectively binding rules of moral conduct. It is still unclear how blame is allocated in the new, highly-differentiated, multi-actor governance arrangements by which today's world is characterised. Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility investigates how actors in complex governance arrangements negotiate, delegate and distribute responsibility. This book asks how moral duties can be defined beyond the territorial and legal confines of the nation-state, how the moral agency of individuals and collective actors can be enhanced; and how obligations and accountability mechanisms for a post-national world, in which responsibility remains vague, ambiguous and contested, can be established. Using both empirical and theoretical perspectives, the book explores the politics of responsibility that plays out as responsibility relationships emerge, develop, and change. This book is perfect for scholars of International Relations, Politics, Philosophy and Political Economy with an interest in the increasingly popular topics of moral agency and responsibility"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

part, I Challenging traditional notions of moral agency and responsibility

chapter 1 Introduction

Moral agency and the politics of responsibility / Elena Sondermann Cornelia Ulbert Peter Finkenbusch

chapter 2 Democratic moral agency

Altering unjust conditions in practices of responsibility / Joe Hoover

chapter 3 Promoting responsible moral agency

Enhancing institutional and individual capacities / Neta C. Crawford

chapter 4 Technologically blurred accountability?

Technology, responsibility gaps and the robustness of our everyday conceptual scheme / Sebastian Köhler Neil Roughley Hanno Sauer

part, II Demanding and contesting responsibility in the international community

chapter 5 The lack of ‘responsibility’ in the responsibility to protect / Aidan Hehir

chapter 6 Responsibility contestations

A challenge to the moral authority of the UN Security Council / Antje Wiener

part, III Practising the politics of responsibility in global governance

chapter 7 In search of equity

Practices of differentiation and the evolution of a geography of responsibility / Cornelia Ulbert

chapter 8 The business of responsibility

Supply chain practice and the construction of the moral lead firm / Christian Scheper

chapter 9 Pluralisation of authority in post-conflict peacebuilding

The re-assignment of responsibility in polycentric governance arrangements / Tobias Debiel

part, IV De-constructing responsibility in an interconnected world

chapter 10 Responsibilising through failure and denial

Governmentality as double failure / Jonathan Joseph

chapter 11 Bringing therapeutic governance back home

US responsibility and drug-related organised crime in the Americas / Peter Finkenbusch

chapter 12 Distributed responsibility

Moral agency in a non-linear world / David Chandler

chapter 13 Conclusion

Practising the politics of responsibility / Cornelia Ulbert Elena Sondermann.

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed December 12, 2017).

ISBN:

1-351-78186-3

1-315-20139-9

1-351-78187-1

9781315201399

OCLC:

1011673418