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This book uses insights from feminist relational theory to outline the ontological, epistemological, and moral/political implications of this theoretical approach. The chapters in this book were originally published in the
Journal of Global Ethics.
List of contents
Introduction: feminist relational theory
1. Toward a relational theory of harm: on the ethical implications of childhood psychological abuse
2. Reframing patient-doctor relationships: relational autonomy and treating autonomy as a virtue
3. Thinking through the death of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea: mourning and grief as relational and as sites for resistance
4. Crafting relations and feminist practices of access
5. Global health and the COVID-19 pandemic: a care ethics approach
6. Is the capability approach a sufficient challenge to distributive accounts of global justice?
7. The relationship between poverty and prosperity: a feminist relational account
8. The coloniality of time in the global justice debate: de-centring Western linear temporality
9. The moral fabric of linguicide: un-weaving trauma narratives and dependency relationships in Indigenous language reclamation
10. Relational value, land, and climate justice
11. Safety and sacrifice
12. Revealing invisible inequalities in egalitarian political theory
13. Protection as connection: feminist relational theory and protecting civilians from violence in South Sudan
14. Integrating peace, justice and development in a relational approach to peacebuilding
15. 'Re-existence' of women Cambodian religious leaders: decolonial possibilities using insights from feminist relational theory and postsecular feminism
16. Towards an ethics of compassionate care in accompanying human suffering: dialogic relationships and feminist activist scholarship with asylum-seeking mothers
17. Connecting relational wellbeing and participatory action research: reflections on 'unlikely' transformations among women caring for disabled children in South Africa
18. Transnational solidarity in feminist practices: power, partnerships, and accountability
About the author
Christine M. Koggel is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She was co-lead editor of the
Journal of Global Ethics from 2018 to 2023.
Ami Harbin is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies at Oakland University, Rochester, USA, and the author of
Disorientation and Moral Life (2016).
Jennifer J. Llewellyn is Professor of Law and Chair in Restorative Justice at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. She is also Director of the Restorative Research, Innovation and Education Lab (www.restorativelab.ca).
