Global Justice and Recognition Theory: Dignifying the Worlds Poor [Paperback]

Introduction. From Social Suffering to Dignity for the Worlds Poor: Towards Global Justice through Cosmopolitan Recognition Theory  1. Conceptualizing 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 Worlds Poor  4. Empowering against Global Poverty Across the Spheres: Durable Empowerment from Social Imaginaries to Recognition Struggles  5. Regarding the Suffering of Others:  Ranci?re on Recognition, Disagreement and Empowering Forms of Power  Conclusion. Dignifying the Worlds Poor: Cosmopolitan Justice, Recognition Theory and Beyond

In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition.

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 Womens Rights as Multicultural Claims (2009).

In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition.

This book uses recognition theories to develop a two-tiered response to the problem of global poverty. First, it highlights non-degradatilS'