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Corwin Aragon
Empowerment without Rights:
Comments on Margaret A. McLaren’s Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice
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In Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice, Margaret McLaren develops and argues for a new theoretical framework, the feminist social justice approach, that can guide ongoing feminist transnational solidarity projects. I briefly map out the main lines of argumentation in McLaren’s book and highlight some of the valuable contributions these arguments make to the intersecting sub-fields of global ethics, global justice, development ethics, and feminist philosophy. I then note two critical thoughts on the book. First, I argue that McLaren’s concessions to rights discourse as a valuable tool for transformative activism undermine and potentially even contradict her own strong critique of rights discourse. Second, I argue that McLaren doesn’t explicitly or develop the latent social epistemology of her feminist social justice approach and discussions of “training” and “education” potentially run counter to this promising but again latent social epistemology.
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Margaret A. McLaren
A Feminist Social Justice Approach for Social Change
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This article extends and develops themes from my book, Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice, in response to commentary by Professors Aragon and Nagel. In my remarks I explore what I call “the tricky territory of rights,” as well as feminism, identity, intersectionality, heterogeneity, and complexity, and alternative epistemologies. My interlocuters and I are all skeptical about the notion of human rights for a range of reasons: rights discourse can be too narrow, focusing mainly on legal and political rights; rights can overemphasize the individual at the expense of the collective; rights are part of state apparatus and may be the instrument of despotic leaders; rights as state apparatus are part of the carceral regime and rights may inhibit broader ways of thinking about justice such as human dignity or Ubuntu. In spite of these legitimate criticisms I advocate a strategic use of rights. I also explore themes of identity, intersectionality, heterogeneity, and complexity.
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Michael Ball-Blakely
The Borders of Agency, Identity, and Control
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Kaveh Boveiri
Marxian Microscopes?
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Thomas Carnes
Reconciling the Right to Exclude with Liberal Ideals
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Mariana Ortega
Agency in a Plural Register:
Pitts Reading Lugones Reading Anzaldúa
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Jennifer M. Page
Reparations for Climate Change
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Nicholas Raffel
Introducing Anarchy for the Twenty-first Century
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Iaan Reynolds
Love, Mourning, and the Speculative Philosophy of Praxis
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