Monique Deveaux

Description

My research is at the intersection of normative ethics and social/political philosophy, and tries bring social and political theory to bear on real-world problems like inequality, poverty, gender and racial injustices, and issues of cultural-religious accommodation. I am currently completing a book, 'Global Justice From Below,' (forthcoming, OUP) that defends a relational and structural view of global poverty. One of the book's central claims is that philosophical thinking about chronic deprivation and its remedies ought to engage concretely with the aims and strategies of poor-led social movements and their organisations.

Academia.edu page: https://uoguelph.academia.edu/MoniqueDeveaux

Note to prospective graduate students: I welcome new M.A. and Ph.D students in social and political philosophy as well as in normative and applied ethics. Students with strong first degrees in Political Science or other social sciences are often a good fit for me, both because of my 'applied philosophy' focus and my interdisciplinary background. I am keen to work with graduate students whose philosophical interests intersect with contemporary problems of justice, broadly construed - such as poverty/inequality, environmental degradation, racial oppression, and challenges of religious/cultural acommodation. 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 Fall 2016 grad/4th year course was on Social Power. Other graduate courses I have offered recently are 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: Joshua Mousie: "Nonhuman Publics and Human Politics: Reimagining the Political Sphere" (defended Dec. 2015); Christi Storfa: "Beyond Capabilities: the Ethics of Flourishing as a Global Citizen"; Veronica Majewski: "Towards a Listening-Focused Account of Deliberative Democracy"; Marie-Pier Lemay: project on a feminist theory of global responsibility; and Cameron Fioret: project on the the commodification of water and its implications for social justice.

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 CRC in Ethics & Global  Social Change, 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:

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. Co-edited with Omid Payrow Shabani. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Reading Onora O’Neill. Co-edited wiith D. Archard, D.Weinstock & N. Manson. Routledge, 2013. 

Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice: Critical Perspectives in Political Theory & Practice. Co-editors B.Arneil, R. Dhamoon, & A. Eisenberg. Routledge 2007. 

JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

• "Re-evaluating Sufficientarianism in Light of Evidence of Inequality's Harms", Ethics and Social Welfare (advance online, May 2017).
• "The Underrepresentation of Women in Prestigious Ethics Journals", forthcoming 2017, Hypatia. Co-authored with Meena Krishnamurthy, Shen-Yi Liao, and Maggie Dalecki. 
• "Deliberative Democracy and Multiculturalism". Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, eds. M. Warren, A. Bächtinger, J. Mansbridge, and J. Dryzek. Forthcoming 2017, Oxford University Press.
• "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." Forthcoming in Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies: A Principle and its Paradoxes, eds. Marie-Claire Foblets, Alison Dundes Renteln, and Michele Graziadei (Routledge, 2017).
• "The Global Poor as Agents of Justice", Journal of Moral Philosophy, vol. 12 (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. Salée (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. pdf
• “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. pdf
• “Toleration and Respect,” Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 4 (1998): 407-427. pdf
• “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. pdf
• “Shifting Paradigms: Theorizing Care and Justice in Political Theory,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 2 (1995): 115-119. pdf
• “Feminism and Empowerment,” Feminist Studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (1994): 223-247. pdf

Presentations

Selected recent talks:

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).