Oppression And Responsibility

Author : Peg O’Connor
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271032429

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Oppression and Responsibility by Peg O’Connor Pdf

Combating homophobia, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination and violence in our society requires more than just focusing on the overt acts of prejudiced and abusive individuals. The very intelligibility of such acts, in fact, depends upon a background of shared beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that together form the context of social practices in which these acts come to have the meaning they do. This book, inspired by Wittgenstein as well as feminist and critical race theory, shines a critical light on this background in order to show that we all share more responsibility for the persistence of oppressive social practices than we commonly suppose—or than traditional moral theories that connect responsibility just with the actions, rights, and liberties of individuals would lead us to believe. First sketching a nonessentialist view of rationality, and emphasizing the role of power relations, Peg O’Connor then examines in subsequent chapters the relationship between a variety of "foreground" actions and "background" practices: burnings of African American churches, hate speech, child sexual abuse, coming out as a gay or lesbian teenager, and racial integration of public and private spaces. These examples serve to illuminate when our "language games" reinforce oppression and when they allow possibilities for resistance. Attending to the background, O’Connor argues, can give us insight into ways of transforming the nature and meaning of foreground actions.

Author : Peg O'Connor
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Discrimination
ISBN : 0271022094

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Author : Ann E. Cudd,Director of Women's Studies and Professor of Philosophy Ann E Cudd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195187434

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Analyzing Oppression by Ann E. Cudd,Director of Women's Studies and Professor of Philosophy Ann E Cudd Pdf

This text presents an integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question: if there is no natural hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so persistent? It argues that the explanation lies in the coercive co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppression.

Author : Mara G. Marin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190498627

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Connected by Commitment by Mara G. Marin Pdf

Mara Marin complicates the primary ways in which we make sense of human and political relationships and our obligations within them. Rather than thinking of relationships in terms of our intentions, Marin thinks of them as open-ended and subject to ongoing commitments. By assessing three types of social relations - political-legal relations, intimate relations of care, and work relations - 'Connected by Commitment' examines our obligations to transform structures of oppression and offers commitment as a model for solidarity across race, gender, and class.

Author : J. Angelo Corlett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442208148

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Heirs of Oppression by J. Angelo Corlett Pdf

Packing his case with moral argument and relevant facts, Angelo Corlett offers the most comprehensive defense to date in favor of reparations for African Americans and American Indians. As Corlett see it, the heirs of oppression are both the descendants of the oppressors and the descendants of their victims. Corlett delves deeply into the philosophically related issues of collective responsibility, forgiveness and apology, and reparations as a human right in ways that no other book or article to date has done. He recommends specific policies and tests the basic arguments of this book with a lengthy chapter considering several objections to the line of reasoning grounding the project.

Author : J. Harvey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137498069

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Civilized Oppression and Moral Relations by J. Harvey Pdf

This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome the hurt and marginalization that stem from civilized oppression.

Author : Elizabeth McGibbon
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773634449

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Oppression by Elizabeth McGibbon Pdf

In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of the root or structural causes of ill health, such as capitalism, globalization, colonialism, medicalization and neoliberalism. The contributors to this volume insist that the key to tackling these structural forces is understanding and changing oppressive practices that cause ill health, thus reframing growing health inequities within the scope of moral responsibility and social change. This thoroughly updated second edition contains contributions from internationally recognized experts in the field of critical social science analyses in health systems and health sciences studies. New chapters provide timely discussions about oppression, Treaty Rights, Big Pharma, the Anthropocene and the COVID-19 pandemic. This book provides a comprehensive overview of core ideas for investigating how oppression “gets under the skin” to perpetuate health inequities.

Author : Ann E. Cudd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198040576

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Analyzing Oppression by Ann E. Cudd Pdf

Analyzing Oppression presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so persistent? Cudd argues that the explanation lies in the coercive co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppression. This answer sets the stage for analysis throughout the book, as it explores the questions of how and why the oppressed join in their oppression. Cudd argues that oppression is an institutionally structured harm perpetrated on social groups by other groups using direct and indirect material, economic, and psychological force. Among the most important and insidious of the indirect forces is an economic force that operates through oppressed persons' own rational choices. This force constitutes the central feature of analysis, and the book argues that this force is especially insidious because it conceals the fact of oppression from the oppressed and from others who would be sympathetic to their plight. The oppressed come to believe that they suffer personal failings and this belief appears to absolve society from responsibility. While on Cudd's view oppression is grounded in material exploitation and physical deprivation, it cannot be long sustained without corresponding psychological forces. Cudd examines the direct and indirect psychological forces that generate and sustain oppression. She discusses strategies that groups have used to resist oppression and argues that all persons have a moral responsibility to resist in some way. In the concluding chapter Cudd proposes a concept of freedom that would be possible for humans in a world that is actively opposing oppression, arguing that freedom for each individual is only possible when we achieve freedom for all others.

Author : Paulo Freire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Education
ISBN : 0140225838

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire Pdf

Author : Marina A.L. Oshana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135036096

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Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression by Marina A.L. Oshana Pdf

Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the oppressive circumstances persons must navigate. They address on the one hand questions of the theoretical structure of personal autonomy given various kinds of social oppression, and on the other, how contexts of social oppression make autonomy difficult or impossible.

Author : José Medina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199929023

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The Epistemology of Resistance by José Medina Pdf

This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.

Author : Alberto G. Urquidez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030272579

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(Re-)Defining Racism by Alberto G. Urquidez Pdf

What is racism? is a timely question that is hotly contested in the philosophy of race. Yet disagreement about racism’s nature does not begin in philosophy, but in the sociopolitical domain. Alberto G. Urquidez argues that philosophers of race have failed to pay sufficient attention to the practical considerations that prompt the question “What is racism?” Most theorists assume that “racism” signifies a language-independent phenomenon that needs to be “discovered” by the relevant science or “uncovered” by close scrutiny of everyday usage of this term. (Re-)Defining Racism challenges this metaphysical paradigm. Urquidez develops a Wittgenstein-inspired framework that illuminates the use of terms like “definition,” “meaning,” “explanation of meaning,” and “disagreement,” for the analysis of contested normative concepts. These elucidations reveal that providing a definition of “racism” amounts to recommending a form of moral representation—a rule for the correct use of “racism.” As definitional recommendations must be justified on pragmatic grounds, Urquidez takes as a starting point for justification the interests of racism's historical victims.

Author : Andrew O'Shea,Maeve O'Brien
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441115515

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Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate by Andrew O'Shea,Maeve O'Brien Pdf

Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate provides an urgent reflection on Freire's work, in particular his central principles of pedagogy and praxis, offering a variety of critical responses from philosophical, sociological and egalitarian perspectives. The editors explore whether Freire's revolutionary work has stood the test of time and its relevance to educational discourses today - discourses that frequently contest the ontological and historical aspects of human development While Freire's work emerged as a response to the problem of providing a transformative educational praxis for justice and equality within a specific cultural and economic milieu, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate seeks to explore the value and possibilities of transformative praxis in perpetually diverse educational settings and within an increasingly divided globalised world. By building on the earlier emancipatory approach of Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, it creates an international conversation between academics, educational practitioners and community activists for a new generation.

Author : Mara G. Marin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Commitment
ISBN : 0190498641

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Connected by Commitment by Mara G. Marin Pdf

Mara Marin complicates the primary ways in which we make sense of human and political relationships and our obligations within them. Rather than thinking of relationships in terms of our intentions, Marin thinks of them as open-ended and subject to ongoing commitments. By assessing three types of social relations - political-legal relations, intimate relations of care, and work relations - 'Connected by Commitment' examines our obligations to transform structures of oppression and offers commitment as a model for solidarity across race, gender, and class

Author : Avia Pasternak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197541036

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Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States by Avia Pasternak Pdf

"International and domestic laws commonly hold states responsible for their wrongdoings. States pay compensation for their unjust wars, and reparations for their historical wrongdoings. Some argue that states should incur punitive damages for their international crimes. But there is a troubling aspect to these practices: States are corporate agents, comprised of flesh and blood citizens. When the state uses the public purse to finance its corporate liabilities, the burden falls on these citizens, even if they protested against the state's policies, did not know about them, or entirely lacked channels of political influence. How can this "distributive effect" of state-level responsibly be justified? The book develops an answer to this question, which revolves around citizens' participation in their state. It argues that citizenship can be a type of massive collective action, where citizens willingly orient themselves around the authority of their state, and where state policies are the product of this collective action. While most ordinary citizens are not to blame for their participation in their state, they nevertheless ought to accept a share of the remedial obligations that flow from their state's wrongful policies. However, the distributive effect cannot be justified in all states. Specifically, in (some) non-democratic states most citizens are not participating in their state in the full sense, and should not pay for their state's wrongdoings. This finding calls then for a revision of the way we hold states responsible in both the domestic and international levels"--