RT Article
T1 Recognizing the poor: a critical review of Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements
JF Journal of global ethics
VO 19
IS 3
SP 235
OP 243
A1 Pilapil, Renante D.
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1878137107
AB This paper raises three critical arguments against Deveaux’s work in Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements. Firstly, the paper argues that a clear-cut definition as to what constitutes a legitimate poor-led social movement particularly its political goals and the means it is allowed to employ to achieve its objective is necessary. Secondly, the paper argues that the theory of recognition and its potential relevance for poor-led activism could have been presented in its strongest terms instead of giving it a reduced treatment. And thirdly, contrary to Deveaux’s apparent over optimism about the poor as agents of global justice, there may be good reasons to be more ‘realistic’ about this position.
K1 Violence
K1 political goals
K1 Poor
K1 Agency
K1 Recognition
DO 10.1080/17449626.2023.2272379