1st Edition
Global Justice and Recognition Theory Dignifying the World’s Poor
Introduction. From Social Suffering to Dignity for the World’s Poor: Towards Global Justice through Cosmopolitan Recognition Theory
1. Conceptualising the Moral and Political Wrongs of Global Poverty: From Global Redistribution to a Cosmopolitan Theory of Recognition
2. Cosmopolitanism and Distant Others: Reification and the Forgetfulness of Global Poverty in Recent Recognition Theory
3. Defining the First Tier of a Recognition-Based Response to Global Poverty: Social Suffering, Survivalist Agency and Humanitarian Concern for the World’s Poor
4. Empowering against Global Poverty Across the Spheres: Durable Empowerment from Social Imaginaries to Recognition Struggles
5. Regarding the Suffering of Others: Rancière on Recognition, Disagreement and Empowering Forms of Power
Conclusion: Dignifying the World’s Poor: Cosmopolitan Justice, Recognition Theory and Beyond
Biography
Monica Mookherjee is a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK. She has previously published in the fields of contemporary political philosophy, especially in the fields of recognition theory, feminist philosophy and multiculturalism. She is the author of Women’s Rights as Multicultural Claims (2009).
