Posts Tagged: ethics

New in Paperback – Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels

Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels by Marijke Denger was first published by Routledge in 2019, in the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series, but has now been reissued in paperback format (29 September 2020). Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels focuses on four highly acclaimed publications in order to argue for a new understanding of community and its ethical framework in recent literary texts. Traditionally, community has been understood ...
January 7, 2021 in Publications Comments are off
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Call for Chapters for Edited Book: Genetic Histories and Liberties

Genetic Histories and Liberties: Eugenics, Genetic Ancestries and Genetic Technologies in Literary and Visual Cultures Gender and the Body Series, Edinburgh University Press ‘Eugenics, at its root, divides people into positive and negative groups,’ Kevin Begos “Weak parents should not procreate. Because their children would inherit their inferior qualities, they would have no strength to lead a meaningful life, or in any way contribute to the state.” Plato, The Republic "Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair ...
August 5, 2020 in CfP, News Comments are off
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