Lavender Mckittrick-Sweitzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2103116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lavender Mckittrick-Sweitzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lavender |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckittrick-Sweitzer |
| SIGNATURE | MCKITTRICK-SWEITZER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Butler University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4487-3351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Summary of Criminal Testimonial Injustice
Considering Complicity
Moderate Structural Exploitation
We consider the apparent inability of theories of exploitation to capture common intuitions about structural exploitation. For example, it seems that consumers participate in the exploitation of sweatshop workers, but there is no direct transaction between the parties. This poses a problem for transactional accounts of exploitation. Many address this problem by appealing to structural exploitation. Existing structural accounts fall, primarily, in…
Preventing the Exploitation of Activists’ Care
Care exploitation is a pervasive yet undertheorized injustice that emerges in both our interpersonal and structural relationships. Among those that are particularly vulnerable to this injustice are activists, those invested in bringing about positive change precisely because of how deeply they care about a given cause. Care exploitation occurs when an individual with caring attitudes is called to aid in the flourishing of a subject (e.g., LGBTQ +…
Caring for Liberalism
Answering the question of whether and how liberalism could acknowledge dependency and foster just care arrangements—with a sensitivity to issues of race, class, and ethnicity—is crucial to determining if it is a defensible political theory. Asha Bhandary and Amy R. Baehr's edited volume, Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory, brings together eleven contributions that are invaluable to moving the dialogue forward. Given th…
Introduction to Symposium on Asha Bhandary's Freedom to Care
In this introduction, I offer a broad overview of Asha Bhandary's Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture so that readers can better situate the suggestions of this symposium's contributors: Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden. Bhandary develops and defends the theory of liberal dependency care in response to the failure of past liberal theorizing to appreciate that dependency care — which is essential to our surviv…
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Caring for Liberalism
Answering the question of whether and how liberalism could acknowledge dependency and foster just care arrangements—with a sensitivity to issues of race, class, and ethnicity—is crucial to determining if it is a defensible political theory. Asha Bhandary and Amy R. Baehr's edited volume, Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory, brings together eleven contributions that are invaluable to moving the dialogue forward. Given th…
Introduction to Symposium on Asha Bhandary's Freedom to Care
In this introduction, I offer a broad overview of Asha Bhandary's Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture so that readers can better situate the suggestions of this symposium's contributors: Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden. Bhandary develops and defends the theory of liberal dependency care in response to the failure of past liberal theorizing to appreciate that dependency care — which is essential to our surviv…
Preventing the Exploitation of Activists’ Care
Care exploitation is a pervasive yet undertheorized injustice that emerges in both our interpersonal and structural relationships. Among those that are particularly vulnerable to this injustice are activists, those invested in bringing about positive change precisely because of how deeply they care about a given cause. Care exploitation occurs when an individual with caring attitudes is called to aid in the flourishing of a subject (e.g., LGBTQ +…
Summary of Criminal Testimonial Injustice
Considering Complicity
Moderate Structural Exploitation
We consider the apparent inability of theories of exploitation to capture common intuitions about structural exploitation. For example, it seems that consumers participate in the exploitation of sweatshop workers, but there is no direct transaction between the parties. This poses a problem for transactional accounts of exploitation. Many address this problem by appealing to structural exploitation. Existing structural accounts fall, primarily, in…
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