Khader offers a deliberative perfectionist approach to identifying and responding to adaptive preferences-- deprived people's preferences that perpetuate their deprivation. Women and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Women's acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food, their positive attitudes toward clitoridectemy and infibulations, their acquiescence to violence at the hands of their husbands, and their sometimes fatalistic attitudes towardtheir own poverty or suffering are all examples of "adaptive preferences," wherein women participate in their owndeprivation.Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment offers a definition of adaptive preference and a moral framework for responding to adaptive preferences in development practice. Khader defines adaptive preferences as deficits in the capacity to lead a flourishing human life that are causally related to deprivationand argues that public institutions should conduct deliberative interventionsto transform the adaptive preferences of deprived people. She insists that people with adaptivepreferences can experience value distortion, but she explains how this fact does not undermine those people's claim to participate in designing developmentinterventions that determine the course of their lives. Khader claims that adaptive preference identification requires a commitment to moral universalism, butthis commitment need not be incompatible with a respect for culturally variant conceptions of the good. She illustrates her arguments with examples from real-world development practice.Khader's deliberative perfectionist approach moves us beyond apparent impasses in the debates about internalized oppression and autonomous agency, relativism and universalism, and feminism and multiculturalism. INDICE: Contents Introduction Adaptive Preferences and Global Justice A Deliberative Perfectionist Approach to Adaptive Preference Intervention AdaptivePreferences and Choice: Are Adaptive Preferences Autonomy Deficits? Adaptive Preferences and Agency: The Selective Effects of Adaptive Preferences The Deliberative Perfectionist Approach, Paternalism, and Cultural Diversity Reimagining Intervention: Adaptive Preferences and the Paradoxes of Empowerment
- ISBN: 978-0-19-977787-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 13/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés