Fred Robinson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 334129 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fred Robinson |
| PRENOMES | Fred |
| SOBRENOME | Robinson |
| ASSINATURA | ROBINSON F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8867-674X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 308 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1951 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution”
Care theorists have had enough. Decades of neoliberalism, followed by financial crisis, austerity, gender backlash, and, in 2020, a worldwide infectious disease pandemic, have clearly tested their patience. The titles alone of three recent books on the ethics and politics of care suggest a change in tone; indeed, “radical,” “revolutionary,” and “manifesto” are generally not words we associate with the scholarship of those interested in the everyd…
Beyond ‘globalizing’ care
The questions and issues that make up the field of global ethics have, for several decades now, largely been understood through the binary framework of ‘cosmopolitanism’ and ‘communitarianism’. Despite the widespread criticism of the limitations of this dualism, and some attempts to ‘qualify or hyphenate core terms’ it has proven ‘remarkably difficult to escape or transcend’ the cosmopolitanism-communitarianism framework (Sutch, 2018: 35). Maggie…
The ethics and politics of care in times of crises
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Global health and the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper presents a case for a feminist care ethics approach to thinking about ethics and justice in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of the existing commentary has been focused on arriving at a universally-acceptable principle of resource allocation – specifically for the global allocation of vaccine doses. A feminist care ethics approach, by contrast, begins not with prescriptive principles, but with the everyday practices of people…
Care ethics thinks the political
Resisting hierarchies through relationality in the ethics of care
This article explores recent charges of Western-centrism and gender essentialism in care ethics. In response to these charges, and informed by the work of Carol Gilligan, I argue for a view of care ethics that regards it not primarily as a normative theory advocating for care and care workers, but as a critical ethics that voices and enacts resistance to Cartesian splits and hierarchies. These are not just gender hierarchies; rather, care ethics …
Feminist foreign policy as ethical foreign policy? A care ethics perspective
This article argues that a liberal cosmopolitan approach to feminist foreign policy reproduces existing relations of power, including gender power relations and Western liberal modes of domination. I suggest that a critical feminist ethic of care offers a potentially radical and transformative account of ethics as a basis for a transnational feminism – one that reveals and troubles the binary gender norms that constitute the international and whi…
Introduction
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a critical analysis of both commonplace assumptions and dominant modes of reasoning about ethics in international relations. It attempts to work towards a new understanding of the nature and purposes of moral enquiry in the context of global social relations. The book then sets out in more detail the argument for a feminis…
Traditions of International Ethics
This chapter looks at the dominant traditions in international ethics and at how an adherence to these traditions of ethical reasoning has produced a narrow and limited debate. It explores the defining principles and historical development of liberal contractarianism and rights-based ethics. The chapter also explores the opposition between cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches to normative international relations theory. It also discusses the…
The Ethics of Care
This chapter explores the increasingly prolific work in moral and political philosophy which has challenged the traditional focus on autonomous, abstract, rational agent and on &s;justice&s; as the first virtue of society. It examines the work of feminist theorists who have developed what is known as &s;the ethics of care&s;. The chapter addresses three central controversies surrounding care. First, the debate over alleged &s;essentialism&s; of m…
Global Social Relations and Exclusion
This chapter elucidates the relevance of a social relations approach to dismantling exclusionary practices on a global scale to the construction of a global ethics of care. It explores the problems of exclusionary attitudes and practices and what Martha Minow describes as the &s;dilemma of difference&s;. The chapter addresses approaches to inclusion and exclusion in contemporary international relations theory. Specifically, it explores the Haberm…
Ethical Reasoning and the Global Context of Care
This chapter sets out in more detail the argument for a feminist international ethics based on the idea of a critical ethics of care. It discusses the nature and purpose of feminist theory and, specifically, feminist ethics. The ethics of care may seem to offer no criteria for judging the relative validity of those moral claims—precisely what moral theories which rely on principles do provide. The chapter explores the development of the ethics of…
Globalization, Moral Relations, and the Ethics of Care
This chapter explores the wider structural and institutional context of moral relations on a global scale, focusing on arguments from international relations theorists about globalization and the international system. It explores the actual conditions for moral relations in the global context and, specifically, for the development of a global ethics of care. The chapter examines the responses to arguments about globalization from normative theori…
A Critical Ethics of Care in the Context of International Relations
This chapter addresses what are often referred to as ethical issues in international relations. It focuses on the problem of &s;humanitarian intervention&s;, and how it has been—and might continue to be—explored in the context of international ethics. The chapter discusses the dominant views on the central &s;issues&s; in international ethics, analyzing critically the ways in which these issues have been explored. Specifically, it focuses on the …
Globalizing Care
This book broadens the scope of thinking about ethics in global social relations, criticizing the 'leading traditions' in international ethics, and exploring the ways in which some strands of feminist moral philosophy may offer an alternative perspective to view ethics in international relations.
Care ethics and International Relations
This article explores recent scholarship in the area of care ethics and International Relations. The article begins by tracing the journey of care ethics into the realm of the international or ‘the global’, and then moves on to elaborate on recent scholarship in the area of care ethics in International Relations. Through a discussion of three key areas – violence and conflict, the body, and the ‘pluriverse’ – I argue that feminist care ethics has…
J. Ann Tickner Book Prize Essay
As a scholar and a writer, I inhabit two (mostly) separate intellectual and academic worlds: the world of feminist ethics and political theory on one hand, and the world of critical, normative and
Imagining “The Global”
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Care ethics, political theory, and the future of feminism
This chapter explores the role and future of feminist care ethics in the context of contemporary feminist theory and practices. It draws links between the claims of feminist theorists about the demise of feminism and the rise of discourses of individual empowerment, choice, competition and ambition within development strategies, practices of gender mainstreaming, and popular Western feminism. It suggests that a feminist ethic of care—despite its …
A modest proposal
This piece argues while that Burke’s Security Cosmopolitanism puts forward a compelling and persuasive argument on the ethics of security, its potential is not realizable within the frame of moral cosmopolitanism. I argue that Kantian cosmopolitanism should be understood not as a new and transformative framework for ethical security studies, but as the defining framework of the post-colonial international system. My own more modest approach to et…
Discourses of motherhood and women’s health
Using the debate surrounding the Canadian government’s 2008 Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health as a central example, this article considers the construction of women and women’s health in global health policy. Specifically, it considers the contributions of Sara Ruddick’s philosophy to the task of unravelling the ethical and political meanings of ‘motherhood’, and the relationship between maternal thinking and feminist polit…
Symposium
Global care ethics
This article defends an ethics of care approach to global justice, which begins with an empirically informed account of injustices resulting from the workings and effects of contemporary neo-liberalism and hegemonic masculinities. Dominant distributive approaches to global justice see the unequal distribution of resources or ‘primary goods’ as the basic source of injustice. Crucially, however, most of these liberal theories do not challenge the b…
Stop Talking and Listen
This article seeks to extend feminist critiques of Habermasian discourse ethics in International Relations by engaging with the feminist ethics of care. Using the work of Andrew Linklater as a starting point, it argues that neither the existing critiques nor the responses have adequately addressed the key features of care ethics. The article critiques the idea of ethics as dialogue among ‘human beings as equals’ through an elaboration of several …
After Liberalism in World Politics? Towards an International Political Theory of Care
This paper explores the potential for an international political theory of care as an alternative to liberalism in the context of contemporary global politics. It argues that relationality and interdependence, and the responsibilities for and practices of care that arise therewith, are fundamental aspects of moral life and sites of political contestation that have been systematically denied and obfuscated under liberalism. A political theory of c…
Globalizing Care
This book broadens the scope of thinking about ethics in global social relations, criticizing the 'leading traditions' in international ethics, and exploring the ways in which some strands of feminist moral philosophy may offer an alternative perspective to view ethics in international relations.
Globalizing Care
The languages of rights and liberalism are probably the most frequently used in contemporary international politics. The language of rights, in particular, has become predominant. . . . The contractarian vocabulary - of agreement, reciprocity, contractual obligation, and especially fairness - is widely used in popular debate on international issues, particularly when the issues are economic ones
Stop Talking and Listen
This article seeks to extend feminist critiques of Habermasian discourse ethics in International Relations by engaging with the feminist ethics of care. Using the work of Andrew Linklater as a starting point, it argues that neither the existing critiques nor the responses have adequately addressed the key features of care ethics. The article critiques the idea of ethics as dialogue among ‘human beings as equals’ through an elaboration of several …
Care, gender and global social justice
This article develops an approach to ethical globalization based on a feminist, political ethic of care; this is achieved, in part, through a comparison with, and critique of, Thomas Pogge's World Poverty and Human Rights. In his book, Pogge makes the valid and important argument that the global economic order is currently organized such that developed countries have a huge advantage in terms of power and expertise, and that decisions are reached…
Feminist foreign policy as ethical foreign policy? A care ethics perspective
This article argues that a liberal cosmopolitan approach to feminist foreign policy reproduces existing relations of power, including gender power relations and Western liberal modes of domination. I suggest that a critical feminist ethic of care offers a potentially radical and transformative account of ethics as a basis for a transnational feminism – one that reveals and troubles the binary gender norms that constitute the international and whi…
After Liberalism in World Politics? Towards an International Political Theory of Care
This paper explores the potential for an international political theory of care as an alternative to liberalism in the context of contemporary global politics. It argues that relationality and interdependence, and the responsibilities for and practices of care that arise therewith, are fundamental aspects of moral life and sites of political contestation that have been systematically denied and obfuscated under liberalism. A political theory of c…
Beyond labour rights
The protection of workers worldwide is most often sought through reference to the International Labour Organization's ‘core’ labour standards. These rights are, in themselves, of great importance; that said, however, the blanket approach with respect to workers that results from the over-reliance on rights is gender-blind, and incapable of integrating the crucial normative dynamics of relational power, collective responsibility and mutual depende…
The 'Underclass
This article examines the concept of the underclass. It reviews the use of this term both in the US and in Britain, showing how it is rooted within political debates about poverty. The underclass concept is vague and its
Global care ethics
This article defends an ethics of care approach to global justice, which begins with an empirically informed account of injustices resulting from the workings and effects of contemporary neo-liberalism and hegemonic masculinities. Dominant distributive approaches to global justice see the unequal distribution of resources or ‘primary goods’ as the basic source of injustice. Crucially, however, most of these liberal theories do not challenge the b…
Resisting hierarchies through relationality in the ethics of care
This article explores recent charges of Western-centrism and gender essentialism in care ethics. In response to these charges, and informed by the work of Carol Gilligan, I argue for a view of care ethics that regards it not primarily as a normative theory advocating for care and care workers, but as a critical ethics that voices and enacts resistance to Cartesian splits and hierarchies. These are not just gender hierarchies; rather, care ethics …
Routine Action, Reproduction of Social Relations, and the Place Market
Reproduction of social relations has been most problematic in communities undergoing drastic and sudden economic and social change. Through the experience of one such community, the town of Consett, County Durham, this analysis is an attempt to draw out the broader implications of this reproduction. Two particular policy measures are highlighted as expressions of the general aim of the reintroduction of the commodity form: a conventional reindust…
The North East
David Byrne's article in this issue presents a careful analysis of the 'residual' and 'emergent' cultures of England's pre-eminent rustbelt region and the scope for a new consciousness - new 'structures of feeling' - as a basis for change. Here Fred Robinson examines the scope for alternative 'visions' and plans for the region which would be grounded in real material and cultural conditions. From the deprived end of England's regional spectrum, h…
Care ethics thinks the political
Care ethics and International Relations
This article explores recent scholarship in the area of care ethics and International Relations. The article begins by tracing the journey of care ethics into the realm of the international or ‘the global’, and then moves on to elaborate on recent scholarship in the area of care ethics in International Relations. Through a discussion of three key areas – violence and conflict, the body, and the ‘pluriverse’ – I argue that feminist care ethics has…
The Importance of Care in the Theory and Practice of Human Security
This paper argues that human rights-based approaches to human security overlook the importance of caring values, relations of care, and care work in the achievement and long-term maintenance of human security. It outlines an alternative approach to the ethics of human security which combines a feminist ontological and normative position on the centrality of caring values and practices in sustaining life with a feminist account of the gendered pol…
Evaluating the impact and effectiveness of financial assistance policies in the Newcastle Metropolitan region
Human rights and the global politics of resistance
Talk of human rights is, currently, nearly as ubiquitous as talk of globalisation. While globalisation has been described as ‘the most over used and under specified term in the international policy sciences since the end of the Cold War’, the same could reasonably be said of ‘human rights’. Human rights are a product of the immediate aftermath of World War II, and thus they developed, in their contemporary form, in the context of the Cold War. Th…
Symposium
Violence as a public health issue
English In recent years, there have been calls in the US and in Britain for a public health approach to violence and violent crime. This article considers the implications of such an approach for the definition and understanding of the ‘problem’ of violence and appropriate ways of tackling it. The discussion challenges the assumptions implicit in some of the literature that this is an intrinsically progressive and unproblematic perspective. This …
Global health and the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper presents a case for a feminist care ethics approach to thinking about ethics and justice in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of the existing commentary has been focused on arriving at a universally-acceptable principle of resource allocation – specifically for the global allocation of vaccine doses. A feminist care ethics approach, by contrast, begins not with prescriptive principles, but with the everyday practices of people…
A modest proposal
This piece argues while that Burke’s Security Cosmopolitanism puts forward a compelling and persuasive argument on the ethics of security, its potential is not realizable within the frame of moral cosmopolitanism. I argue that Kantian cosmopolitanism should be understood not as a new and transformative framework for ethical security studies, but as the defining framework of the post-colonial international system. My own more modest approach to et…
Discourses of motherhood and women’s health
Using the debate surrounding the Canadian government’s 2008 Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health as a central example, this article considers the construction of women and women’s health in global health policy. Specifically, it considers the contributions of Sara Ruddick’s philosophy to the task of unravelling the ethical and political meanings of ‘motherhood’, and the relationship between maternal thinking and feminist polit…
Bridging the Real and the Ideal in International Ethics
Richard Price's new volume, Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics, is the latest contribution to what Steve Smith called, in 1992, the “resurgence” of normative theorizing in International Relations (Smith 1992). Over a decade and a half later, that resurgence is stronger than ever, as IR scholars from an array of different theoretical and methodological stripes continue to weigh in on “ethics” and “ethical issues” in world politics. This…
Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror
Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’, Richard Ashby Wilson, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. xv, 347.Given this book's title, I assumed that it would consist mainly of elaborations of already over-rehearsed debates about the “trade-offs” between “liberty” and “security.” And while it does include plenty of this, several chapters in this volume offer thoughtful, nuanced analyses which challenge the dichotomous rhetoric of the d…
NGOs and the Advancement of Economic and Social Rights
This article explores controversies surrounding economic and social rights in the context of recent moves by non-governmental organizations, notably Amnesty International, to strengthen their commitment to these 'second-generation' rights. Although this move is long overdue, particularly in an era of increasing economic polarization due to globalization, the article argues that these efforts will fail if we simply attempt to 'add' economic and so…
Europe Between Democracy and Anarchy
EUROPE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND ANARCHY F. A. ROBINSON F. A. ROBINSON 26 Templemore Road, Birkenhead Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume V, Issue 3, 1951, Pages 415–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a053398 Published: 01 July 1951
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Regional implications of information technology
Routine Action, Reproduction of Social Relations, and the Place Market
Reproduction of social relations has been most problematic in communities undergoing drastic and sudden economic and social change. Through the experience of one such community, the town of Consett, County Durham, this analysis is an attempt to draw out the broader implications of this reproduction. Two particular policy measures are highlighted as expressions of the general aim of the reintroduction of the commodity form: a conventional reindust…
Evaluating the impact and effectiveness of financial assistance policies in the Newcastle Metropolitan region
The 'Underclass
This article examines the concept of the underclass. It reviews the use of this term both in the US and in Britain, showing how it is rooted within political debates about poverty. The underclass concept is vague and its
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Keith Shaw of the Division of Government, University of Northumbria, Fred Robinson of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham and Margaret Curran of the Tyne and Wear Research and Intelligence Unit, examine the findings of a local authority survey of the membership of quangos in the North East. They argue that main areas of the public sector in the region are controlled by an…
Feminist Ir/Ipe Theory
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Globalizing Care
The languages of rights and liberalism are probably the most frequently used in contemporary international politics. The language of rights, in particular, has become predominant. . . . The contractarian vocabulary - of agreement, reciprocity, contractual obligation, and especially fairness - is widely used in popular debate on international issues, particularly when the issues are economic ones
The impacts of crime on health and health services
Crime poses substantial risks to the health of victims and, consequently, generates additional demand for health services. This literature review examines the current state of knowledge and understanding of the impacts of crime on physical and psychological health; responses to the needs of victims by health workers and other professionals; and resulting costs to health services. The review concludes by identifying issues for research, policy and…
Violence as a public health issue
English In recent years, there have been calls in the US and in Britain for a public health approach to violence and violent crime. This article considers the implications of such an approach for the definition and understanding of the ‘problem’ of violence and appropriate ways of tackling it. The discussion challenges the assumptions implicit in some of the literature that this is an intrinsically progressive and unproblematic perspective. This …
Governing a Region
Public services in the North East of England are managed and provided by the traditional institutions of government and, now, by a large number of unelected bodies. The growth of these unelected bodies has led to increasingly fragmented governance, a lack of local accountability and lack of transparency.Almost all the institutions of governance in the region, both elected and unelected, are run by, predominantly, middle-aged (or older) middle-cla…
The North East
David Byrne's article in this issue presents a careful analysis of the 'residual' and 'emergent' cultures of England's pre-eminent rustbelt region and the scope for a new consciousness - new 'structures of feeling' - as a basis for change. Here Fred Robinson examines the scope for alternative 'visions' and plans for the region which would be grounded in real material and cultural conditions. From the deprived end of England's regional spectrum, h…
Human rights and the global politics of resistance
Talk of human rights is, currently, nearly as ubiquitous as talk of globalisation. While globalisation has been described as ‘the most over used and under specified term in the international policy sciences since the end of the Cold War’, the same could reasonably be said of ‘human rights’. Human rights are a product of the immediate aftermath of World War II, and thus they developed, in their contemporary form, in the context of the Cold War. Th…
NGOs and the Advancement of Economic and Social Rights
This article explores controversies surrounding economic and social rights in the context of recent moves by non-governmental organizations, notably Amnesty International, to strengthen their commitment to these 'second-generation' rights. Although this move is long overdue, particularly in an era of increasing economic polarization due to globalization, the article argues that these efforts will fail if we simply attempt to 'add' economic and so…
Care, gender and global social justice
This article develops an approach to ethical globalization based on a feminist, political ethic of care; this is achieved, in part, through a comparison with, and critique of, Thomas Pogge's World Poverty and Human Rights. In his book, Pogge makes the valid and important argument that the global economic order is currently organized such that developed countries have a huge advantage in terms of power and expertise, and that decisions are reached…
Beyond labour rights
The protection of workers worldwide is most often sought through reference to the International Labour Organization's ‘core’ labour standards. These rights are, in themselves, of great importance; that said, however, the blanket approach with respect to workers that results from the over-reliance on rights is gender-blind, and incapable of integrating the crucial normative dynamics of relational power, collective responsibility and mutual depende…
Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror
Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’, Richard Ashby Wilson, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. xv, 347.Given this book's title, I assumed that it would consist mainly of elaborations of already over-rehearsed debates about the “trade-offs” between “liberty” and “security.” And while it does include plenty of this, several chapters in this volume offer thoughtful, nuanced analyses which challenge the dichotomous rhetoric of the d…
Curiosity and Imagination in a Patriarchal World
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The Curious Feminist
The Importance of Care in the Theory and Practice of Human Security
This paper argues that human rights-based approaches to human security overlook the importance of caring values, relations of care, and care work in the achievement and long-term maintenance of human security. It outlines an alternative approach to the ethics of human security which combines a feminist ontological and normative position on the centrality of caring values and practices in sustaining life with a feminist account of the gendered pol…
Bridging the Real and the Ideal in International Ethics
Richard Price's new volume, Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics, is the latest contribution to what Steve Smith called, in 1992, the “resurgence” of normative theorizing in International Relations (Smith 1992). Over a decade and a half later, that resurgence is stronger than ever, as IR scholars from an array of different theoretical and methodological stripes continue to weigh in on “ethics” and “ethical issues” in world politics. This…
After Liberalism in World Politics? Towards an International Political Theory of Care
This paper explores the potential for an international political theory of care as an alternative to liberalism in the context of contemporary global politics. It argues that relationality and interdependence, and the responsibilities for and practices of care that arise therewith, are fundamental aspects of moral life and sites of political contestation that have been systematically denied and obfuscated under liberalism. A political theory of c…
Stop Talking and Listen
This article seeks to extend feminist critiques of Habermasian discourse ethics in International Relations by engaging with the feminist ethics of care. Using the work of Andrew Linklater as a starting point, it argues that neither the existing critiques nor the responses have adequately addressed the key features of care ethics. The article critiques the idea of ethics as dialogue among ‘human beings as equals’ through an elaboration of several …
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