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Connected by Commitment - Oppression and Our Responsibility to Undermine It (Hardcover)
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Connected by Commitment - Oppression and Our Responsibility to Undermine It (Hardcover)
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Saying that political and social oppression is a deeply unjust and
widespread condition of life is not a terribly controversial
statement. Likewise, theorists of justice frequently consider our
obligation to not turn a blind eye to oppression. But what is our
culpability in the endurance of oppression? In this book, Mara
Marin complicates the primary ways in which we make sense of human
and political relationships and our obligations within them. Rather
than thinking of relationships in terms of our intentions, Marin
thinks of them as open-ended and subject to ongoing commitments.
Commitments create open-ended expectations and vulnerabilities on
the part of others, and therefore also obligations. By this
rationale, our actions sustain oppressive or productive structures
in virtue of their cumulative effects, not the intentions of the
actors.When we violate our obligations we oppress others. Over the
chapters of her book, Marin applies her model of commitment to
caregivers, marriage, and bargaining power between labor and
employers, and examines three types of social relations:
political-legal relations, intimate relations of care, and work
relations. By linking habitual action to obligation, Marin argues
that we should see our responsibilities within such relationships
as political and as creating norms for behavior over time.
Commitment both points to the support our actions give to
oppressive structures and to the ways in which our actions can
weaken the same structures. Connected by Commitment examines our
obligations to transform structures of oppression and offers
commitment as a model for solidarity across race, gender, and
class.
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