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This volume brings together a range of practical and theoretical perspectives on responsibility in the context of refugee and migrant integration. Addressing one of the major challenges of our time, a diverse group of authors shares insights from history, philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, and from personal experience. The book expands our understanding of the complex challenges and opportunities that are associated with migration and integration, and highlights the important role that individuals can and should play in the process. Interview with the authors: https://youtu.be/HDkaN_PBBF8
Refugees. --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social problems --- Migration. Refugees --- Individual Responsibility. --- Integration. --- Migration.
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Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment. By paying close attention to the relational harms suffered by victims, this book develops a concept of relational justice for survivors, offenders and community. Relational justice looks beyond traditional rules of legal responsibility to include the social and emotional dimensions of human experience, opening the way for a more compassionate, effective and just response to crime. The book’s chapters follow a journey from victim experiences of violence to community healing from violence. Early chapters examine the relational harms inflicted by the worst wrongs, the moral responsibility of wrongdoers and common mistakes made in judging wrongdoing. Particular attention is paid here to sexual violence. The book then moves to questions of just punishment: proper sentencing by judges, mandatory sentences approved by the public, and the realities of contemporary incarceration, focusing particularly on solitary confinement and sexual violence. In its remaining chapters, the book looks at changes brought by the victims' rights movement and victim needs that current law does not, and perhaps cannot meet. It then addresses possibilities for offender change and challenges for majority America in addressing race discrimination in criminal justice. The book concludes with a look at how individuals might live out the ideals of a greater—relational—justice.
Criminals --- Social justice. --- Criminal justice, Administration of. --- Punishment. --- Violence. --- Collective responsibility --- Crime --- Criminal justice reform --- Individual responsibility --- Justice --- Mass incarceration --- Punishment --- Racial bias --- Restorative justice --- Violence --- Rehabilitation.
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What ought individual agents do with regard to climate change? This book challenges the common intuition that every individual agent is morally required to do her bit by refraining from individual polluting actions and still does not leave individuals off the hook. Climate change requires an extremely ambitious, collective solution. This book defends the primacy of promotional duties and focuses on getting individuals as members of society involved. By taking a rights-based approach, it provides a profound normative basis to lead a heated discussion e.g. with regard to what can reasonably be demanded of individuals. Next to addressing duties of specific groups of agents such as young parents, this book aims to derive concrete recommendations for action. But, more broadly, it aims to empower individual agents to finally be able to make a meaningful difference in the global fought against climate change.
Elizabeth Cripps --- bewerbende Pflichten --- Rechtebasierte Ethik --- Alan Gewirth --- Sabine Hohl --- elterliche Pflichten --- gesellschaftlicher Wandel --- promotional duties --- weakly collective duties --- rights-based ethics --- individual contribution --- individual responsibility --- parental duties --- social change
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Christa Wolf (1929-), Ingeborg Drewitz (1923-1986), and Grete Weil (1906-1999) occupy very different positions in postwar German literature, yet all three challenge readers to consider how individuals understand their roles in history and how they negotiate their personal responsibilities based on those roles. These three are, of course, by no means the only German writers to have dealt with such questions in the wake of the Third Reich. But Wolf, Drewitz, and Weil ground their projects in the family, an institution often left out of such inquiries, giving them a different starting point for moral reflection. Before looking closely at the three writers' views of the individual's role and responsibility, the book devotes a chapter to the examination of individual and collective memory, then a chapter to how feminist ethicists view moral responsibility. Chapters on the three writers' literary approaches to the questions follow: Wolf enacts a process of historical and geographic triangulation; Drewitz constructs concentric historical and social circles; Weil seeks to repair the historical ruptures of the Holocaust, creating new historical narratives and exploring the limitations of traditional bourgeois morality. Each of the three attempts to map a geography of morals that begins within the structures of the extended family but interrogates individual responsibility in an increasingly globalized environment. Michelle Mattson is Associate Professor of German at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.
German literature --- German fiction --- Literature and morals --- Ethics in literature. --- Literature --- Morals and literature --- Ethics --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Influence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Wolf, Christa --- Drewitz, Ingeborg --- Weil, Grete, --- Jockisch, Grete --- Dispeker, Margarete Elisabeth --- Volf, Krista --- Ihlenfeld, Christa Margarete --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Weil, Grete --- Jockisch, Grete, --- Dispeker, Margarete Elisabeth, --- Christa Wolf. --- German literature. --- Grete Weil. --- Ingeborg Drewitz. --- Postwar German Women's Fiction. --- Third Reich. --- bourgeois morality. --- family. --- feminism. --- feminist ethics. --- historical narratives. --- history. --- individual responsibility. --- memory. --- moral reflection.
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