Monique Deveaux

I use ideas from social and political theory to try to illuminate concrete problems of structural injustice, like poverty and exploitation. I have also written about the justice claims of cultural and religious groups within the context of constitutional democratic states. My new book, Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements (Oxford University Press, 2021), argues that progressive and just poverty eradication needs to be centered on the analyses and aims of poor-led social movements and their organizations.

Academia.edu page: here

Google scholar page: here

Note to prospective graduate students: I supervise M.A. and Ph.D students in social and political philosophy as well as in normative and applied ethics. Prospective students interested in applying political philosophy to contemporary problems of justice are especially welcome to apply. I also supervise in feminist philosophy and gender theory. If you are a prospective M.A. or Ph.D. student and your research relates to issues of global or social justice, you will automatically be considered for additional support under the auspices of the Canada Research Chair in ethics & global social change.  

My Winter 2020 graduate seminar was on The Ethics of Migration. Fall 2018 graduate seminar was on Political Solidarity. Other recently taught graduate courses include Poverty: Ethical & Normative Debates (2017); Social Power (2016); Global Ethics; and The Ethics of Development.

Post-doctoral scholars working on topics related to global justice can also be hosted under the auspices of the Canada Research Chair that I hold.  Recent post-doctoral fellows: Dr. Jennifer Szende (PhD, Queen's) and Dr. Cristian Dimitriu (PhD, U Toronto).

Current/recent Ph.D. students: Christi Storfa: "Global Justice Unbounded: Social Connection Through Mutual Flourishing" (defended Septemer 2021); Marie-Pier Lemay, "Grounding Transnational Feminist Solidarity"; Cameron Fioret, "The Ethics of Water: From Commodification to Common Ownership" (defended August 2021); Shannon Boss, "Making America Healthy Again: Purity, Fear, and the Construction of Heathy Subjectivities in the U.S."; Gordon Trenbeth, "Solidarity with Non-Human Others: Theorizing and (Re)Presenting Interspecies Solidarity"; and Joshua Mousie: "Nonhuman Publics and Human Politics: Reimagining the Political Sphere" (defended Dec. 2015).

In 2012, I started up Initiatives in Global Justice, a research consortium of U of Guelph researchers which features talks and other programming on ethical and political issues related to globalization. 

I have co-organized and hosted the following international workshops:

 Theoretical Explorations of Exploitation in Practice at the University of Guelph, October 2015 

 Thinking Beyond Distribution: A Workshop on Global Justice, held at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto in October 2012

 Rethinking Inequality: Philosophical Reflections on Recent Empirical Research, held at the University of Ottawa in November 2012

Education

Degrees

Ph.D. and M.Phil, University of Cambridge
M.A. and B.A. Hon. (Political Science), McGill University

Positions

Professor and Tier I CRC in Ethics & Global  Social Change (renewed 2018), Dept. of Philosophy, University of Guelph, 2010 to present.

Assistant Professor (1998-2004) Associate Professor of Political Science, Williams College, 2004-2010

Residential Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2001-2002

SSHRC Post-doctoral fellow, Wiener Center, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, 1997-1998

Research

BOOKS

As author:

Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-led Social Movements (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States.  Oxford University Press, 2006 (U.K.)/2007 (U.S.). (Intro & Conclusion here) 

Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice. Cornell University Press, 2000

As editor:

Exploitation: From Practice to Theory. Eds. Monique Deveaux and Vida Panitch. Rowman & Littlefield, February 2017

Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy: Texts and Cases. Eds. Monique Deveaux and Omid Payrow Shabani. Oxford University Press, 2014

Reading Onora OíNeill. Eds. M. Deveaux, D. Archard, D.Weinstock & N. Manson. Routledge, 2013. 

Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice: Critical Perspectives in Political Theory & Practice. Eds. M. Deveaux, B.Arneil, R. Dhamoon, & A. Eisenberg. Routledge 2007. 

JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

•  "Poor-Led Social Movements and Global Justice," Political Theory vol. 46, no. 5 (2018) DOI: 10.1177/0090591718776938

• "Re-evaluating Sufficientarianism in Light of Evidence of Inequality's Harms," Ethics and Social Welfare vol 12, no. 2 (2018). DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2017.1324577

• "The Underrepresentation of Women in Prestigious Ethics Journals," Hypatia vol. 32, no. 4 (2017). Co-authored with M. Krishnamurthy, S. Liao, and M. Dalecki. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12351. 

•  "Deliberative Democracy and Multiculturalism". Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, eds. M. Warren, A. Bechtinger, J. Mansbridge, and J. Dryzek (Oxford University Press, Sept. 2018)

• "Effective Deliberative Inclusion of Women in Contexts of Traditional Political Authority," Democratic Theory vol. 3, no. 2 (2016): 2-25

• "Beyond the Redistributive Paradigm: What Philosophers Can Learn from Poor-Led Politics." In Ethical Issues in Poverty Alleviation, eds. H.P. Gaisbauer et al. (Springer 2016)

• "Exploitation, Structural Injustice, and the Cross-Border Trade in Human Ova," Journal of Global Ethics vol. 12, no. 1 (2016), pp. 48-68 

• Appeals to Choice and Sexual Equality: Debates Over Religious Attire. In Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies: A Principle and its Paradoxes, eds. M-C Foblets, A.Dundes Renteln, and M. Graziadei (Routledge, 2018)

• "The Global Poor as Agents of Justice," Journal of Moral Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 2 (2015): 125-50. 

• "Critical Perspectives on Global Justice: At the Frontier," (co-authored with Kathryn Walker) Journal of Global Ethics, vol. 9, no. 2 (2013):111-114. 

• "Regimes of Accommodation, Hierarchies of Rights," in Revealing Democracy: Religion and Secularism and Religion in Liberal Democracy, eds. C. Maillé, G. Nielsen, and D. Salèe (Peter Lang Press, 2013)

• "Rethinking Inequality: Introduction," (co-authored with Patti Lenard) Philosophical Topics, vol. 40, no. 1 (2012): 1-6

• "Normative Liberal Theory and the Bifurcation of Human Rights," Ethics and Global Politics, vol. 2, no. 3 (September 2009): 171-19. 

• "Personal Autonomy and Cultural Tradition," in Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice: Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice, ed. B. Arneil, M. Deveaux, R. Dhamoon, A. Eisenberg (Routledge, 2007). 

• "A Deliberative Approach to Conflicts of Culture," Political Theory, vol. 31, no. 6 (2003): 780-807. Republished in Minorities Within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity, Eds. A. Eisenberg and J.  Spinner-Halev (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

• "Liberal Constitutions and Traditional Cultures: the South African Customary Law Debate," Citizenship Studies, vol. 7, no. 2 (2003): 161-80

• "Political Morality and Culture," Social Theory and Practice, vol. 28, no. 3 (2002): 503-518. Republished in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 203 (May 2005)

• "Conflicting Equalities," Political Studies, vol. 48, no. 3 (2000): 522-539. 

• "Cultural Pluralism from Liberal Perfectionist Premises," Polity, vol. 32, no. 4 (2000): 473-497. 

• "Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault," in Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader, Eds. Shere Hesse-Biber et al. (Oxford University Press, 1999)

• Agonism and Pluralism," Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 25, no. 4 (1999): 1-22. 

• Toleration and Respect," Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 4 (1998): 407-427. 

• "Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault," in Rereading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Foucault, ed. Susan Hekman (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996)

• "New Directions in Feminist Ethics," European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 3, no. 1 (1995): 86-96. 

• "Shifting Paradigms: Theorizing Care and Justice in Political Theory," Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 2 (1995): 115-119. 

• "Feminism and Empowerment," Feminist Studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (1994): 223-247. 

Presentations

Selected talks:

December 2020 "Grounding Normative Theorizing in Concrete, Justice-Seeking Struggles." Carleton University Philosophy Colloquium (zoom talk).

March 2020 "The Capability Approach and Transformative Poverty Reduction." Western University Philosophy Colloquium.

June 2017 "Movements versus Markets: What, If Anything, is Special About the Organizations and Social Movements of the Poor?" University of British Columbia workshop: New Directions in Ethics and Poverty. 

March 2017 "Why Global Inequality - and Not Just Poverty - Matters." Ohio State University COMPAS (Conversations on Morality, Politics & Society) conference: On Global Inequality. 

February 2017 "Religion, Tradition, and Autonomy: Can Intersectionality Reveal Openings for Women's Agency?". Keynote lecture, VII Congress of the Italian Society of Women Historians, Pisa, Italy.

February 2017 "Reframing Chronic Poverty and its Alleviation through the Insights and Strategies of Poor-led Movements." Talk, Dept. of Ethics, Social & Political Philosophy, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

October 2016 "Reframing Chronic Poverty and its Alleviation through the Insights and Strategies of Poor-led Movements." Ethics & Public Affairs Program, and Dept. of Philosophy, Carleton Unviersity

May 2016 "Global Justice From Below? The Value of Poor-led Social Movements to Poverty Alleviation." Keynote talk, University of Salzburg Workshop on Philosophy and Poverty

May 2016 "Global Justice From Below? The Value of Poor-led Social Movements to Poverty Alleviation." Free University, Berlin (Kolloquium Zur Praktischen Philosophie)

April 2016 "Global Justice From Below? The Value of Poor-led Social Movements to Poverty Alleviation." Society for Women in Philosophy workshop (SWIP-SHOP), CUNY Graduate Center

Sept. 2015 "How Should the Political Movements of the Poor Figure in Theorizing About Global Justice?" Symposium on 'Global Justice: New Directions in Research and Advocacy,' Ghent, Belgium

May 2015 "Is the Cross-Border Trade in Human Eggs Wrongfully Exploitative?" Gender and Global Justice Conference, Centre for Global Ethics, University of Birmingham (UK)

July 2014  "Egg Donation: An Assessment of Key Feminist Ethical Objections." British Society for Applied Philosophy, Oxford, UK

July 2014  "Global Injustice and the Market in Human Eggs." 15^th International Association of Women Philosophers Symposium, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

June 2014  "Sexual Equality and Personal Autonomy: Possibilities of Pluralistic Interpretations."  Conference on '(Not) Outside My Culture: Paradoxes of Personal Autonomy in a Plural Society,' Max Plank Institute, Halle, Germany

Feb. 2014  "The Cross-Border Trade in Human Eggs: an Ethical Conundrum from the Perspective of Global Justice." Workshop on Global Surrogacy and Reproductive Markets, University of Ottawa

Jan. 2014  "Sufficiency, Priority, and the Harms of Inequality." Invited talk, Philosophy Department colloquium series, McMaster University

March 2013 "The Global Poor as Agents of Justice." Invited talk, Laurentian University (Seminar on Thought and Culture)

Nov. 2012  "Agents or Subjects of Global Justice?". Invited talk, McMaster University (Society for Philosophy and Culture & the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition)

March and April 2011 "When is Sufficiency Not Enough? Revisiting Sufficiency and Priority Views in Light of Inequality's Harms." Talk presented at the University of Toronto (Centre for Ethics); University of Waterloo (Philosophy Department), and the University of Ottawa (Graduate School of Public and International Affairs)

April 2010 "The Subjects of Global Justice." Philosophy Department Colloquium, Dalhousie University