I was on The Philosopher’s Zone with David Rutledge to discuss the ethics of philanthropy in the face of billionaires playing an increasingly important role in international politics. It was good fun!
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New research! I’m happy to announce that International Affairs has published my article on the influence of the Gates Foundation on global health. It argues that transnational philanthropy has a problem of justice, despite good intentions, because it possess uncontrolled power over the human rights of millions of people.
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Right so it’s the fourth video of the Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance series and I’m talking about when one can act on the right to resistance.
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It’s the third video in my online book launch for Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance. This video discusses what we mean by resistance which is a much discussed but under examined concept.
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Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance is now available in paperback with a further discount until the end of November 2021.
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On the 31st of October, world leaders converged on Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference, colloquially known as COP26. Here it is hoped that an agreement can be reached to help avert the worst effects of the climate crisis. However, given the history of soft targets and inaction on climate change there is air of scepticism that COP26 will live up to the moment.
Today we will give you the City view on the climate emergency and civil disobedience.
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Although Europe’s migrant crisis has abated, the politics and ethics of human migration remain one of the most contested issues today.
Today we will give you the City View on the politics of migration.
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After decades of retreat, the emerging climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have led to calls across the world for a more interventionist state.
Today we will give you the City View on whether there are national solutions to global problems.
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I’ve written a short piece on the ethics of resisting injustice for Aeon. The idea for it came as I was walking through London during the Extinction Rebellion protests. It is a cause that I felt a lot of sympathy, but didn’t join the active protest. The question that this raised was what do I owe these people who are resisting injustice. The answer it turns out was a lot of nothing.
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In December Cambridge University Press published my first book Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance. If you are interested in reading more the first ten pages of the book are available to everyone via this post.
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The threat of 'illegal economic immigrants' is often at the core of populist and alt-right politics in the West. Indeed, many otherwise liberal persons view these people as 'queue-jumpers' who ought to be sent to the back of the line. In this blog for Cambridge University Press I make the case for illegal immigration.
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My new book Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance is now available for pre-order at Cambridge University Press, Amazon, and other on-line retailers.
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