World Crisis and Underdevelopment
A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and Coercion

The book examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment.

David Ingram (Author)

9781108421812, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 January 2018

394 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.6 cm, 0.64 kg

'World Crisis and Underdevelopment is an original, illuminating, solid contribution to a normative political philosophy of globalization. Soaring above specialties, Ingram discusses world poverty, migration, markets' misgivings, human rights, global justice, global constitutionalism, the reform of the UN from the angle of a critical theory inspired by Habermas' discourse-ethics and Honneth's theory of recognition.' Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

World Crisis and Underdevelopment examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment. It draws from discourse ethics and recognition theory in criticizing injustices and pathologies associated with underdevelopment. Its scope is comprehensive, encompassing discussions about development science, philosophical anthropology, global migration, global capitalism and economic markets, human rights, international legal institutions, democratic politics and legitimation, world religions and secularization, and moral philosophy in its many varieties.

Introduction: poverty and ethics: towards a critical theory of misdevelopment
Part I. Agency and Development: 1. Recognition, accountability, and agency
2. Agency and coercion: empowering the poor through poverty expertise and development policy
Part II. Global Crisis: 3. Forced migration: toward a discourse theory of refugees
4. Imperial power and global political economy: democracy and the limits of capitalism
Part III. Human Rights: 5. Human rights and global injustice: institutionalizing the moral claims of agency
6. Making humanitarian law legitimate: the constitutionalization of global governance
7. Nationalism, religion, and deliberative democracy: networking cosmopolitan solidarity.

Subject Areas: Political ideologies [JPF], Politics & government [JP], Social & political philosophy [HPS]