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David Ingram
English
Political Theory
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Cosmopolitanism, International Development and Human Rights
This chapter shows that cosmopolitanism, international development and human rights can be articulated in ways that are more or less supportive of one another and of the expansion of global capitalism. The fir...
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What an Ethics of Discourse and Recognition Can Contribute to a Critical Theory of Refugee Claim Adjudication: Reclaiming Epistemic Justice for Gender-Based Asylum Seekers
Using examples drawn from gender-based asylum cases, this chapter examines how far recognition theory (RT) and discourse theory (DT) can guide social criticism of the judicial processing of women’s application...
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When Microcredit Doesn’t Empower Poor Women: Recognition Theory’s Contribution to the Debate Over Adaptive Preferences
This essay proposes recognition as a preferred approach to explaining poor ’s puzzling preference for patriarchal subordination even after they have accessed an ostensibly empowering asset: . Neither the s...
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Critical Theory and Global Development
This chapter explores recent research by critical theorists concerning theories of (under)development. Drawing from the research of Thomas McCarthy, Axel Honneth, Jurgen Habermas, Amy Allen, Nancy Fraser, and ...
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A Morally Enlightened Positivism? Kelsen and Habermas on the Democratic Roots of Validity in Municipal and International Law
A commonplace misconception identifies Kelsen as a one-dimensional legal positivist and Habermas as a one-dimensional legal moralist. I argue, on the contrary, that both theorists defend a complex normative co...
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The Public Sphere as Site of Emancipation and Enlightenment: A Discourse Theoretic Critique of Digital Communication
Habermas claims that an inclusive public sphere is the only deliberative forum for generating public opinion that satisfies the epistemic and normative conditions underlying legitimate decision making. He adds .....
