Adrienne Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5911922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrienne Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont McKenna College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Coping
Luc Bovens presents his book, Coping: A Philosophical Guide, as a teaching text, aimed at generating classroom discussion. Several features of the book suit it to this purpose. The topics are bound to resonate with undergraduates, especially first-year students making the great leap from living under their family's care and jurisdiction to the responsibilities and freedom of university life. The topics are loosely organised around the titular the…
Against Mother's Day and Employee Appreciation Day and Other Representations of Oppressive Expectations as Opportunities for Excellence and Beneficence
Appreciation and gratitude get good press: They are central virtues in many religious and secular ethical frameworks, core in positive psychology research, and they come highly recommended by the self‐improvement set. Generally, appreciation and gratitude feature as good things, in popular consciousness. Of course, on an Aristotelian model, the belief that these are virtues implies they are something people can get right or wrong. This paper exam…
Women Eat More Rice and Banana
An original approach was used to examine how staple food choice differs by gender and migration: this consisted of a quantitative survey (six locations with urban consumers from various economic classes (n = 123)), a qualitative in-depth interview with a subset of those consumers (n = 18), and focus group discussions (n = 13). Men and women had similar results in terms of their preferred staple food choice attributes; yet women indicated consumin…
Personal Bonds
I argue for adopting a conception of obligation that is broader than the conception commonly adopted by moral philosophers. According to this broader conception, the crucial marks of an obligatory action are, first, that the reasons for the obliged party to perform the action include an exclusionary reason and, second, that the obliged party is the appropriate target of blaming reactive attitudes, if they inexcusably fail to perform the obligator…
Environmental sanitation and pollution control measures in the Odaw-Korle River catchment, Ghana
This article reports on a study that sought to understand the major factors to consider in changing poor environmental sanitation practices in urban communities in Accra, Ghana. The study focused on three main issues: the drivers of sanitation and pollution control measures in the communities; community members’ perceptions on the influence of poor planning on environmental sanitation and pollution; and how existing local governance arrangements …
Understanding households' livelihood choices, wealth, and poverty in Accra, Ghana
This article reports on a study that aimed to deepen understanding of the factors which influence livelihood choices, and perceptions of wealth and poverty, in Accra, Ghana. Focus group discussions and household surveys were held in ten selected communities. Although parents are able to influence their households’ livelihood choices, the prevailing socio-economic circumstances are more likely to determine what household members are likely to do. …
Love, Incorporated
Strengthening Social Capital for Adaptive Governance of Natural Resources
This article reflects on experiences of a 5-year participatory policy learning and action research (PLAR) project that aimed at strengthening local-level capacities to develop and formalize bylaws for effective natural resources management (NRM) and governance. The PLAR involved a top-bottom-up iterative process of social learning and experience sharing, policy dialogue and negotiation, and adaptive management that resulted in the formulation and…
Tracking Outcomes of Social Capital and Institutional Innovations in Natural Resources Management
In this article we use empirical evidence from a tracking study to investigate the outcomes and potential impacts of a 5-year participatory learning and action research project that aimed at strengthening the capacity of local communities to formulate and implement bylaws for sustainable natural resource management (NRM). Results, based on participatory self-reflective practices, revealed changes in seven key outcome areas: awareness and complian…
Hopes and Dreams 1
Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains
What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
As retailers in the North increasingly adopt codes of practice containing social and/or environmental provisions in global supply chains, there is a need for rigorous assessment of their social impact. Moving beyond the rhetoric, it is important to establish the actual impact of such codes on poorer workers, their families, and other local stakeholders. This paper sets out the key methodological and conceptual issues arising in such an assessment…
Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations
Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, and explore the effects of long-term climate change on agriculture, ec…
Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations
Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, and explore the effects of long-term climate change on agriculture, ec…
Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains
Hopes and Dreams 1
Personal Bonds
I argue for adopting a conception of obligation that is broader than the conception commonly adopted by moral philosophers. According to this broader conception, the crucial marks of an obligatory action are, first, that the reasons for the obliged party to perform the action include an exclusionary reason and, second, that the obliged party is the appropriate target of blaming reactive attitudes, if they inexcusably fail to perform the obligator…
Tracking Outcomes of Social Capital and Institutional Innovations in Natural Resources Management
In this article we use empirical evidence from a tracking study to investigate the outcomes and potential impacts of a 5-year participatory learning and action research project that aimed at strengthening the capacity of local communities to formulate and implement bylaws for sustainable natural resource management (NRM). Results, based on participatory self-reflective practices, revealed changes in seven key outcome areas: awareness and complian…
Strengthening Social Capital for Adaptive Governance of Natural Resources
This article reflects on experiences of a 5-year participatory policy learning and action research (PLAR) project that aimed at strengthening local-level capacities to develop and formalize bylaws for effective natural resources management (NRM) and governance. The PLAR involved a top-bottom-up iterative process of social learning and experience sharing, policy dialogue and negotiation, and adaptive management that resulted in the formulation and…
What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
As retailers in the North increasingly adopt codes of practice containing social and/or environmental provisions in global supply chains, there is a need for rigorous assessment of their social impact. Moving beyond the rhetoric, it is important to establish the actual impact of such codes on poorer workers, their families, and other local stakeholders. This paper sets out the key methodological and conceptual issues arising in such an assessment…
Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations
Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, and explore the effects of long-term climate change on agriculture, ec…
What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
As retailers in the North increasingly adopt codes of practice containing social and/or environmental provisions in global supply chains, there is a need for rigorous assessment of their social impact. Moving beyond the rhetoric, it is important to establish the actual impact of such codes on poorer workers, their families, and other local stakeholders. This paper sets out the key methodological and conceptual issues arising in such an assessment…
Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains
Strengthening Social Capital for Adaptive Governance of Natural Resources
This article reflects on experiences of a 5-year participatory policy learning and action research (PLAR) project that aimed at strengthening local-level capacities to develop and formalize bylaws for effective natural resources management (NRM) and governance. The PLAR involved a top-bottom-up iterative process of social learning and experience sharing, policy dialogue and negotiation, and adaptive management that resulted in the formulation and…
Tracking Outcomes of Social Capital and Institutional Innovations in Natural Resources Management
In this article we use empirical evidence from a tracking study to investigate the outcomes and potential impacts of a 5-year participatory learning and action research project that aimed at strengthening the capacity of local communities to formulate and implement bylaws for sustainable natural resource management (NRM). Results, based on participatory self-reflective practices, revealed changes in seven key outcome areas: awareness and complian…
Hopes and Dreams 1
Love, Incorporated
Understanding households' livelihood choices, wealth, and poverty in Accra, Ghana
This article reports on a study that aimed to deepen understanding of the factors which influence livelihood choices, and perceptions of wealth and poverty, in Accra, Ghana. Focus group discussions and household surveys were held in ten selected communities. Although parents are able to influence their households’ livelihood choices, the prevailing socio-economic circumstances are more likely to determine what household members are likely to do. …
Environmental sanitation and pollution control measures in the Odaw-Korle River catchment, Ghana
This article reports on a study that sought to understand the major factors to consider in changing poor environmental sanitation practices in urban communities in Accra, Ghana. The study focused on three main issues: the drivers of sanitation and pollution control measures in the communities; community members’ perceptions on the influence of poor planning on environmental sanitation and pollution; and how existing local governance arrangements …
Personal Bonds
I argue for adopting a conception of obligation that is broader than the conception commonly adopted by moral philosophers. According to this broader conception, the crucial marks of an obligatory action are, first, that the reasons for the obliged party to perform the action include an exclusionary reason and, second, that the obliged party is the appropriate target of blaming reactive attitudes, if they inexcusably fail to perform the obligator…
Women Eat More Rice and Banana
An original approach was used to examine how staple food choice differs by gender and migration: this consisted of a quantitative survey (six locations with urban consumers from various economic classes (n = 123)), a qualitative in-depth interview with a subset of those consumers (n = 18), and focus group discussions (n = 13). Men and women had similar results in terms of their preferred staple food choice attributes; yet women indicated consumin…
Against Mother's Day and Employee Appreciation Day and Other Representations of Oppressive Expectations as Opportunities for Excellence and Beneficence
Appreciation and gratitude get good press: They are central virtues in many religious and secular ethical frameworks, core in positive psychology research, and they come highly recommended by the self‐improvement set. Generally, appreciation and gratitude feature as good things, in popular consciousness. Of course, on an Aristotelian model, the belief that these are virtues implies they are something people can get right or wrong. This paper exam…
Coping
Luc Bovens presents his book, Coping: A Philosophical Guide, as a teaching text, aimed at generating classroom discussion. Several features of the book suit it to this purpose. The topics are bound to resonate with undergraduates, especially first-year students making the great leap from living under their family's care and jurisdiction to the responsibilities and freedom of university life. The topics are loosely organised around the titular the…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)