Monism, Pluralism and Relativism In this article I want to re-examine the issue of moral conflict and argue that certain explanations of this issue are particularly problematic in relation to the distinction between the concepts of the private, the
Moral Thresholds of Outrage
The March for Hrant Dink and New Ways of Mobilization in Turkey
Lorenzo D’Orsi
’s assassination within the perspective of cultural trauma, temporalities of mourning, and recognition of the Armenian Genocide ( Rosati 2015 ; Türkmen-Dervişoğlu 2013 ; von Bieberstein 2017a ). I argue that, by looking at Dink’s murder through the lens of moral
Danger, Moral Opacity, and Outrage
Fear of Jihadism and the Terrorist Threat in Southern Mali
Tone Sommerfelt
, opinion pieces, and interviews published in various news outlets. Exploring publicly expressed outrage against suspected jihadists in southern Mali, I am concerned in this article with the question of what evokes moral outrage, the specific forms that such
The Many Layers of Moral Outrage
Kurdish Activists and Diaspora Politics
Nerina Weiss
, moral outrage might appear as a reasonable (and legitimate) emotion when it comes to the past and current situation of Kurds in Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. The killing and enslavement of the Yezidis by the Islamic State (IS) ( McGee 2018 ), the civil
Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Conundrums
Negotiating the Unforeseen Challenges of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Jocelyn D. Avery
it would prevent me from ‘being locked into any particular one [role]’ ( Rosaldo 1993: 169 ). What I had not anticipated were the ethical dilemmas and moral conundrums that would arise in the field as a consequence of my ‘shifting identities’ ( Abu
Precarious Time, Morality, and the Republic
New Granada, 1818–1853
Francisco A. Ortega
liberate or disguise oppression; they could construct an orderly moral world or disseminate anarchy and chaos. The perceived acceleration of time seemed to have rendered social existence fragile, while the new political culture not only mirrored it but also
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 85–109
The “Moral Effect” of Legalized Lawlessness
Violence in Britain’s Twentieth-Century Empire
Caroline Elkins
justifications for—if not the necessity of—violence, and moral claims to a superior civilization created a tapestry of ideas that found expression in colonial administrations, imperial security forces, enabling legal scaffoldings, policies of divide and rule, and
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–90
Anthropology and Moral Philosophy
A Symposium on Michael Banner's The Ethics of Everyday Life
Michael Banner, Lesley A. Sharp, Richard Madsen, John H. Evans, J. Derrick Lemons, and Thomas J. Csordas
What Moral Theology (and Moral Philosophy) Needs from Social Anthropology Michael Banner
The Ethics of Suffering in Everyday Life Lesley A. Sharp
Ethical Narrative and Moral Theory Richard Madsen
Specifying the Relationship between Social Anthropology and Moral Theology John H. Evans
The Ethics of Everyday Life: The Next Word J. Derrick Lemons
Reading Michael Banner on Moral Theology and Social Anthropology Thomas J. Csordas
Descriptions, Norms, and the Uses of Ethnography Michael Banner
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 111–139
Olusegun Steven Samuel and Ademola Kazeem Fayemi
This article is a critical inquiry into Thaddeus Metz's African ethical theory of modal relationalism (MR). Central to the theory of MR is the claim that something (X) has moral status by virtue of its capacity for communal relationship, where X
Multiscalar moral economy
Global agribusiness, rural Zambian residents, and the distributed crowd
Tijo Salverda
This article addresses the relevance of the moral economy concept in light of unequal socioeconomic relations between a European agribusiness and rural residents in Zambia. It argues that the moral economy concept offers a helpful heuristic device for analyzing how relationships are constituted, negotiated, and contested among interdependent actors with “opposing” socioeconomic interests. To explain the dynamics of their relationships, however, the moral economy concept has to extend beyond its usual, spatially restricted (i.e., local) focus. Instead, “external,” distant, non-local actors, such as foreign critics concerned about “land grabbing,” also influence the local character of moral-economic exchanges between the agribusiness and rural residents. Hence, the article proposes a multiscalar perspective to account for the influence of a wider array of actors.
