How to Think Ethically about Global Issues
This textbook is an introduction to thinking ethically about global issues. Unlike existing books in this area, this book is truly interdisciplinary and includes a range of voices from both the Global South and the Global North. Rather than simply applying Western theories to case studies, Prof. Ste...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1: Beyond Single Stories
- Section I: Ethics and Culture
- 2: Why We’re So Often Wrong about the World
- 3: Beyond Cultural Relativism
- 4: Tradition, Globalization, and Change
- 5: Women Elsewhere
- Section II: Ethics and Economics
- 6: Brief Histories of Poverty
- 7: Development and the Human Good
- 8: Crossing Borders: Immigration in an Unequal World
- 9: Sweatshops, Resource Curses, and the Ethics of Trade
- 10: Charity and/or Justice?
- Section III: Ethics and Politics
- 11: Are Human Rights and Democracy Universal?
- 12: The Ethics of War
- 13: Building Global Peace
- Section IV: Ethics and the Environment
- 14: Population: What’s the Problem?
- 15: Unnatural Disasters
- 16: Climate Change: Problems and Progress
- 17: Conclusion: How to Continue Thinking Ethically