1st Edition
Relational Theory Feminist Approaches, Implications, and Applications
Introduction: feminist relational theory
Christine M. Koggel, Ami Harbin and Jennifer J. Llewellyn
1. Toward a relational theory of harm: on the ethical implications of childhood psychological abuse
Sarah Clark Miller
2. Reframing patient-doctor relationships: relational autonomy and treating autonomy as a virtue
Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
3. Thinking through the death of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea: mourning and grief as relational and as sites for resistance
Duncan P. Mercieca and Daniela Mercieca
4. Crafting relations and feminist practices of access
Anna E. Mudde
5. Global health and the COVID-19 pandemic: a care ethics approach
Fiona Robinson
6. Is the capability approach a sufficient challenge to distributive accounts of global justice?
Christine M. Koggel
7. The relationship between poverty and prosperity: a feminist relational account
Susan P. Murphy
8. The coloniality of time in the global justice debate: de-centring Western linear temporality
Katharina Hunfeld
9. The moral fabric of linguicide: un-weaving trauma narratives and dependency relationships in Indigenous language reclamation
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
10. Relational value, land, and climate justice
Jennifer Szende
11. Safety and sacrifice
Ami Harbin
12. Revealing invisible inequalities in egalitarian political theory
Leon Schlüter
13. Protection as connection: feminist relational theory and protecting civilians from violence in South Sudan
Felicity Gray
14. Integrating peace, justice and development in a relational approach to peacebuilding
Jennifer J. Llewellyn
15. ‘Re-existence’ of women Cambodian religious leaders: decolonial possibilities using insights from feminist relational theory and postsecular feminism
Lara K. Schubert
16. Towards an ethics of compassionate care in accompanying human suffering: dialogic relationships and feminist activist scholarship with asylum-seeking mothers
M. Emilia Bianco and M. Brinton Lykes
17. Connecting relational wellbeing and participatory action research: reflections on ‘unlikely’ transformations among women caring for disabled children in South Africa
Elise J. van der Mark, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Christine W. M. Dedding, Ina M. Conradie and Jacqueline E. W. Broerse
18. Transnational solidarity in feminist practices: power, partnerships, and accountability
Marie-Pier Lemay
Biography
Christine M. Koggel is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She was co-lead editor of the Journal of Global Ethics from 2018 to 2023.
Ami Harbin is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies at Oakland University, Rochester, USA, and the author of Disorientation and Moral Life (2016).
Jennifer J. Llewellyn is Professor of Law and Chair in Restorative Justice at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. She is also Director of the Restorative Research, Innovation and Education Lab (www.restorativelab.ca).
