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Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights

Diana Tietjens Meyers

Abstract

This book analyzes how human agency—the capacity for free choice and action—relates to poverty and human rights, respectively, as well as how agency links poverty to human rights. It is divided into four parts. Part 1 considers the diverse meanings of poverty from the standpoint of the poor and the relatively well-off. Part 2 examines morally appropriate responses to poverty on the part of persons and institutions that are better off. Part 3 identifies economic development strategies that secure the agency of the beneficiaries. Part 4 addresses the constraints poverty imposes on agency in the ... More

Keywords: poverty, social and economic human rights, global justice, economic development, empowerment, agency, migration, gender, trafficking in persons, biomedical research

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2014 Print ISBN-13: 9780199975877
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2014 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199975877.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Diana Tietjens Meyers, author
Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

Diana Tietjens Meyers

Part one Thinking Through the Meanings of Poverty

1 Surviving Poverty

Claudia Card

2 Poverty Knowledge, Coercion, and Social Rights

David Ingram

3 Rethinking Coercion for a World of Poverty and Transnational Migration

Diana Tietjens Meyers

Part two Ethical Responses to Poverty

4 Responsibility for Violations of the Human Right to Subsistence

Elizabeth Ashford

5 Global Poverty, Decent Work, and Remedial Responsibilities

Gillian Brock

6 Trafficking in Human Beings

Leslie P. Francis and John G. Francis

7 “Are My Hands Clean?”

Alison M. Jaggar

Part three Promoting Development and Ensuring Agency

8 Agency and Intervention

Ann E. Cudd

9 Empowerment Through Self-Subordination?

Serene J. Khader

10 Paradoxes of Development

Amy Allen

Part four Transnational Transactions and Human Rights

11 Poverty, Voluntariness, and Consent to Participate in Research

Alan Wertheimer

12 Children’s Rights, Parental Agency, and the Case for Non-coercive Responses to Care Drain

Anca Gheaus

13 Human Rights and Global Wrongs

John Christman

End Matter

Index