Introduction to Symposium: Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis introductory article summarizes some key elements of Monique Deveaux’s book Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements and situates that book in the philosophical literature on global poverty. It then provides an outline of the symposium contributions by Ashwini Vasanthakumar, Luis Cabrera, Brooke Ackerly, Catherine Lu, and Avery Kolers.

Keywords

• Deveaux, Monique
• Poverty
• Solidarity
• Agency
• Singer, peter
• Grounded normative theory