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Agency (philosophy)
About: Agency (philosophy) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10461 publications have been published within this topic receiving 350831 citations. The topic is also known as: Thought & Human agency.
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31 Jan 1999
TL;DR: Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions as mentioned in this paper provides a forum for dialogue about fetuses without conceding to a moral or political agenda that would sanctify them at women's expense.
Abstract: Since Roe v. Wade, there has been increasing public interest in fetuses, in part as a result of effective antiabortion propaganda and in part as a result of developments in medicine and technology. While feminists have begun to take note of the proliferation of fetal images in various media, such as medical journals, magazines, and motion pictures, few have openly addressed the problems that the emergence of the fetal subject poses for feminism.Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions foregrounds feminism's effort to focus on the importance of women's reproductive agency, and at the same time acknowledges the increasing significance of fetal subjects in public discourse and private experience. Essays address the public fascination with the fetal subject and its implications for abortion discourse and feminist commitment to reproductive rights in the United States. Contributors include scholars from fields as diverse as anthropology, communications, political science, sociology, and philosophy.This timely volume provides scholars and reproductive rights activists a forum for dialogue about fetuses without conceding to a moral or political agenda that would sanctify them at women's expense.
255 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the role of human agency has been under-explored to date in the field of regional economic resilience, and they focus on three key questions: why agency is important in resilience; how agents are organized in complex, regional economies and how they might act; and what an agency perspective means for how resilience might be conceptualized and analysed empirically.
Abstract: Regional resilience: an agency perspective, Regional Studies. This paper argues that in the nascent theorizing and empirical study of regional economic resilience, the role of human agency has been under-explored to date. In seeking to address this gap, the paper focuses on three key questions: why agency is important in resilience; how agents are organized in complex, regional economies and how they might act; and finally, what an agency perspective means for how resilience might be conceptualized and analysed empirically. It is argued that including the human factor in resilience thinking ultimately means that the role of place and context must assume greater significance.
254 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines the promise of Foucault as a vehicle for addressing subjectivity and organizations, and argues that such work has difficulties in theorizing agency, and the relation between self and discourse.
Abstract: This paper examines the promise of Foucault as a vehicle for addressing subjectivity and organizations. It questions the supposed non-essentialism and nondualism of Foucauldian work, and argues that such work has difficulties in theorizing agency, and the relation between self and discourse. Though the paper is critical of previous attacks on the anti-materialistic stance of Foucauldian work, it nevertheless suggests that Foucauldian studies have been unable to adequately theorize 'material' relations, and that they have so far provided an inadequate basis by which to develop an ethics of either individual or collective change. In developing this critique, the paper largely focuses on Foucauldian work rather than the text of Foucault himself, though some attention is paid to Volumes 1 to 3 of The History of Sexuality. Feminist work is also employed in order to illustrate the limitations of Foucault in theorizing the self and subjectivity.
254 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical and methodological framework for a "social constructionist" analysis of the role of gay communities in the "urban renaissance" is presented, and an argument is made that gay involvement in the urban renaissance constitutes part of a spatial response to a historically specific form of oppression.
Abstract: This paper provides a theoretical and methodological framework for a "social constructionist" analysis of the role of gay communities in the "urban renaissance." We suggest that this is important both because as a substantive area of research the role of gays in the "urban renaissance" has been neglected, and because it highlights the need to overcome the structure versus agency debate in social theory. Structuralists have tended to regard the role of cultural identity in the "urban renaissance" asepiphenomenal, while voluntarists have regarded it as indicative only of personal choices in "lifestyles." An analysis of the social construction of the gay identity is stipulated, and an argument is made that gay involvement in the "urban renaissance" constitutes part of a spatial response to a historically specific form of oppression. An enumeration of what needs to be done to more fully implement our approach is provided.
253 citations
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16 Oct 2013
TL;DR: The problem of promisees' rights and three dogmas about promising are discussed in this article. But the focus of the paper is on collective belief and acceptance as features of groups.
Abstract: CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SOURCES INTRODUCTION PART I SHARED AGENCY Ch. 1 Acting Together Ch. 2 Considerations on Joint Commitment Ch. 3 Who's to Blame? Ch. 4 Rationality in Collective Action Ch. 5 Two Approaches to Shared Intention PART II COLLECTIVE ATTITUDES Ch. 6 Belief and Acceptance as Features of Groups Ch. 7 Collective Epistemology Ch. 8 Shared Values, Social Unity, and Liberty Ch. 9 Social Convention Revisited Ch. 10 Collective Guilt Feelings PART III MUTUAL RECOGNITION, PROMISES, AND LOVE Ch. 11 ": a contractual model Ch. 12 The problem of promisees' rights Ch. 13 Three dogmas about promising Ch. 14 Mutual Recognition PART IV POLITICAL LIFE Ch. 15 A Real Unity of Them All Ch. 16 Pro Patria: an Essay on Patriotism Ch. 17 De-moralizing Political Obligation Ch. 18 Commands and Their Practical Import BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUTHOR'S WORKS INDEX
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