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Responsibility / edited by Ghassan Hage & Robyn Eckersley.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Responsibility.
- Duty.
- Social ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- The concept of responsibility permeates social life. While it has many meanings, they often centre around questions of practical and moral accountability, culpability and liability. One can learn a great deal about a social formation by looking at the way the meanings of responsibility are deployed within it, the way they vary from one social space to another, and the way they are often at the centre of a political struggle over how we define and apportion blame. The essays in this book do more than examine such processes. Each in its own way also invites the readerto push existing assumptions about what individual, political, ecological and corporate responsibility entails.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I
- Obedience to Authority and Its Discontents
- More Irresponsibility for Everyone?!
- Responsibility, Noel Pearson and Indigenous Disadvantage in Australia
- Responsibility for 'Doing Justice'
- Responsibility for Providing Human Security
- Part II
- Who Is Watching? Context, Blame and Responsibility
- Between Soldier and Bystander: Negotiating Peacekeeper Responsibility in the Rwandan Genocide
- Responsibility in the Lebanese Transnational Family
- Facebook and the Other: Administering to and Caring for the Dead Online
- Responsible Judgement: Forced Marriage, Culture and Feminist Responsibility
- Part III
- Taking Political Responsibility for Climate Change
- Rethinking 'Remoteness': The Space-Time of Corporate Causation
- The Toolondo Fishman: Humananimals and Forms of Response-ability
- Beyond Control or Compassion: Towards an Ontology of Responsibilities
- References
- Author Biographies
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780522862287
- 0522862284
- OCLC:
- 1493608968
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