Andrew Fagan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3973861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Fagan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Fagan |
| SIGNATURE | FAGAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7375-8259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Aggrieved Subject
The Subject of Human Rights
The divisive character of a large part of identity politics creates enormous challenges which have yet to be satisfactorily engaged with from within human rights circles. This article addresses an area of human rights theory and practice that is in urgent need of critical attention: the prevailing human-rights-based response to identity politics, namely recognition rights that eschew social class. I shall argue that human rights has vitally impor…
International Comparisons in Fighting Poverty
This study compares international experiences in how the poor are fighting poverty. The study data are derived from clients participating in the Poverty Stoplight program where clients create the set of indicators defining multidimensional poverty. Clients then create a plan to change a set of indicators in order to raise themselves out of poverty. By comparing efforts across three countries, the study analyzes the diversity of contexts in light …
The Citizen as Self-Abnegating
Today, citizenship is generally understood as legal subjectivity in a national context, but in the decades after the American Revolution, the concept of citizenship was not strictly associated with the nation. Instead, Americans of the early republic primarily associated citizenship with a Protestant understanding of eschatological reward: good "citizens" sought not to engage politically but rather to practice self-control in order to indicate th…
Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
A student guide to reconciling human rights with cultural difference, using political philosophy and real-life case studies How can universal human rights be reconciled with respect for wide cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universal…
Cultural Harm and Engaging the Limits of a Right to Cultural Identity
This article critically examines the limits of a right to cultural identity. Some have argued that human rights norms require a reformulation in the light of cultural diversity. One element of this approach will be examined: the right of exit, as it appears to provide an instrument by which legislative authorities can largely avoid the politically and conceptually fraught challenge of normatively evaluating traditions and practices. By analyzing …
The challenge of cultural diversity
This article traces recent trends in British politics, liberal political theory and human rights law in order to demonstrate why the right of exit – made famous in the political theory of multiculturalism by Chandran Kukathas – may be able to mediate tensions between them. I argue that the right of exit is an insufficient test for consent because some cultures may render some members incapable of effectively exercising their autonomy. I use empir…
Relative Universality, Harmful Cultural Practices and the United Nations' Human Rights Council
This article presents a critical analysis of the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) engagement with the challenges which recognising cultural practices raises for human rights norms. The importance of culture for human rights and of the necessity of individuals' enjoyment of human rights to culture has achieved growing recognition within the global human rights community in recent years. Theorists and practitioners of human rights are increasingly s…
Philosophical foundations of human rights
This chapter presents and analyzes philosophical contributions to the theory and practice of human rights. More specifi cally, I will focus on attempts to justify human rights as a universally valid moral doctrine in a culturally and politically diverse and complex world. The task of seeking to identify and formulate an ultimate justifi cation for a commitment to human rights is complex and has attracted consistent criticism. Many supporters of h…
Human Rights
Like the previous two editions of Christian Tomuschat's highly impressive book, this edition is best suited for readers who already possess some knowledge of and familiarity with the theory and pra
Defending corporate social responsibility
This article examines an enduring issue in human rights scholarship generally, through the perspective of my recent experiences of undertaking corporate social responsibility (CSR) training in Myanmar. The relationship between theory (in the form of conceptual reasoning and analysis) and practice (the legal and political application of human rights principles) is complex and, on occasion, contradictory and paradoxical. Conceptually a strong and c…
Lambert Zuidervaart
How Autonomous Is Medical Decision Making
Respecting another’s religious beliefs does not compel us to accept that those beliefs have been examined and are autonomously espoused. We come to hold beliefs in a multitude of ways, not all of which are fully informed and uncoerced
Autonomy ? Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr and Jeffrey Paul
Journal Article Autonomy – Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr and Jeffrey Paul Get access Autonomy. Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller and Jeffrey Paul(eds), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii + 340. Price £15.99.) Andrew Fagan Andrew Fagan University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 227, April 2007, Pages 311–313, https://doi.or…
Human rights and capitalism
Human Rights and Capitalism brings together two important facets of the globalisation debate and examines the complex relationship between human rights, property rights and capitalist economies. © Janet Dine and Andrew Fagan 2006. All rights reserved
Human Rights and Capitalism
Paradoxical bedfellows
Making Sense Of
This book aims to extend upon the growing body of literature concerned with dying and death. The book analyses various experiences and representations of dying and death from the perspective of academic disciplines as diverse as theology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and literature. The rationale for this is simple. As objects of study dying and death cannot be usefully reduced to a single academic perspective. One cannot hope to gain a d…
Making Sense Of
Human Rights
Like the previous two editions of Christian Tomuschat's highly impressive book, this edition is best suited for readers who already possess some knowledge of and familiarity with the theory and pra
Making Sense Of
This book aims to extend upon the growing body of literature concerned with dying and death. The book analyses various experiences and representations of dying and death from the perspective of academic disciplines as diverse as theology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and literature. The rationale for this is simple. As objects of study dying and death cannot be usefully reduced to a single academic perspective. One cannot hope to gain a d…
Making Sense Of
Paradoxical bedfellows
Human rights and capitalism
Human Rights and Capitalism brings together two important facets of the globalisation debate and examines the complex relationship between human rights, property rights and capitalist economies. © Janet Dine and Andrew Fagan 2006. All rights reserved
Human Rights and Capitalism
Autonomy ? Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr and Jeffrey Paul
Journal Article Autonomy – Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr and Jeffrey Paul Get access Autonomy. Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller and Jeffrey Paul(eds), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii + 340. Price £15.99.) Andrew Fagan Andrew Fagan University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 227, April 2007, Pages 311–313, https://doi.or…
How Autonomous Is Medical Decision Making
Respecting another’s religious beliefs does not compel us to accept that those beliefs have been examined and are autonomously espoused. We come to hold beliefs in a multitude of ways, not all of which are fully informed and uncoerced
Lambert Zuidervaart
Philosophical foundations of human rights
This chapter presents and analyzes philosophical contributions to the theory and practice of human rights. More specifi cally, I will focus on attempts to justify human rights as a universally valid moral doctrine in a culturally and politically diverse and complex world. The task of seeking to identify and formulate an ultimate justifi cation for a commitment to human rights is complex and has attracted consistent criticism. Many supporters of h…
Human Rights
Like the previous two editions of Christian Tomuschat's highly impressive book, this edition is best suited for readers who already possess some knowledge of and familiarity with the theory and pra
Defending corporate social responsibility
This article examines an enduring issue in human rights scholarship generally, through the perspective of my recent experiences of undertaking corporate social responsibility (CSR) training in Myanmar. The relationship between theory (in the form of conceptual reasoning and analysis) and practice (the legal and political application of human rights principles) is complex and, on occasion, contradictory and paradoxical. Conceptually a strong and c…
Relative Universality, Harmful Cultural Practices and the United Nations' Human Rights Council
This article presents a critical analysis of the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) engagement with the challenges which recognising cultural practices raises for human rights norms. The importance of culture for human rights and of the necessity of individuals' enjoyment of human rights to culture has achieved growing recognition within the global human rights community in recent years. Theorists and practitioners of human rights are increasingly s…
Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
A student guide to reconciling human rights with cultural difference, using political philosophy and real-life case studies How can universal human rights be reconciled with respect for wide cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universal…
Cultural Harm and Engaging the Limits of a Right to Cultural Identity
This article critically examines the limits of a right to cultural identity. Some have argued that human rights norms require a reformulation in the light of cultural diversity. One element of this approach will be examined: the right of exit, as it appears to provide an instrument by which legislative authorities can largely avoid the politically and conceptually fraught challenge of normatively evaluating traditions and practices. By analyzing …
The challenge of cultural diversity
This article traces recent trends in British politics, liberal political theory and human rights law in order to demonstrate why the right of exit – made famous in the political theory of multiculturalism by Chandran Kukathas – may be able to mediate tensions between them. I argue that the right of exit is an insufficient test for consent because some cultures may render some members incapable of effectively exercising their autonomy. I use empir…
The Citizen as Self-Abnegating
Today, citizenship is generally understood as legal subjectivity in a national context, but in the decades after the American Revolution, the concept of citizenship was not strictly associated with the nation. Instead, Americans of the early republic primarily associated citizenship with a Protestant understanding of eschatological reward: good "citizens" sought not to engage politically but rather to practice self-control in order to indicate th…
International Comparisons in Fighting Poverty
This study compares international experiences in how the poor are fighting poverty. The study data are derived from clients participating in the Poverty Stoplight program where clients create the set of indicators defining multidimensional poverty. Clients then create a plan to change a set of indicators in order to raise themselves out of poverty. By comparing efforts across three countries, the study analyzes the diversity of contexts in light …
The Subject of Human Rights
The divisive character of a large part of identity politics creates enormous challenges which have yet to be satisfactorily engaged with from within human rights circles. This article addresses an area of human rights theory and practice that is in urgent need of critical attention: the prevailing human-rights-based response to identity politics, namely recognition rights that eschew social class. I shall argue that human rights has vitally impor…
The Aggrieved Subject
Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Human rights (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law and economics (6 works)