World Crisis and Underdevelopment: A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and Coercion
Cambridge University Press, 1/18/2018
EAN 9781108421812, ISBN10: 1108421814
Hardcover, 394 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 x 2.6 cm
Language: English
World Crisis and Underdevelopment examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment. It draws from discourse ethics and recognition theory in criticizing injustices and pathologies associated with underdevelopment. Its scope is comprehensive, encompassing discussions about development science, philosophical anthropology, global migration, global capitalism and economic markets, human rights, international legal institutions, democratic politics and legitimation, world religions and secularization, and moral philosophy in its many varieties.
Introduction
poverty and ethics
towards a critical theory of misdevelopment
Part I. Agency and Development
1. Recognition, accountability, and agency
2. Agency and coercion
empowering the poor through poverty expertise and development policy
Part II. Global Crisis
3. Forced migration
toward a discourse theory of refugees
4. Imperial power and global political economy
democracy and the limits of capitalism
Part III. Human Rights
5. Human rights and global injustice
institutionalizing the moral claims of agency
6. Making humanitarian law legitimate
the constitutionalization of global governance
7. Nationalism, religion, and deliberative democracy
networking cosmopolitan solidarity.