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GLOBAL POVERTY, INJUSTICE, AND RESISTANCE Eachyear,millionsofpeoplediefrompoverty-relatedcauses.Inthis groundbreaking and thought-provoking book, Gwilym David Blunt arguesthattheonlypeoplewhowillendthisinjusticeareitsvictims, andthattheglobalpoorhavetherighttoresistthecausesofpoverty. He explores how the right of resistance is used to reframe urgent political questions: is illegal immigration a form of resistance? Can transnationalsocialmovements,suchastheindigenousrightsmove- ment,providethefoundationsforcivilresistancetoglobalpoverty?If peaceful resistance fails,isarmedstruggle justified?Dopeopleliving inaffluentstateshavearesponsibilitytohelp,evenifitrequiresthem tobreakthelaw?Givingclearhistoricalexamplesandengagingwith fields including philosophy, international law, history, and inter- nationalpoliticalstudies,thisvolumeaddressesreal-worldissuesfrom terrorism to activism. It will be important for anyone interested in applied philosophy and global injustice. isLecturerinInternationalPoliticsatCity, University ofLondon.HisworkhasbeenpublishedinInternational Theory, Politics, and Human RightsQuarterly. GLOBAL POVERTY, INJUSTICE, AND RESISTANCE GWILYM DAVID BLUNT City,UniversityofLondon UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©GwilymDavidBlunt Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For Anna, with love Contents Acknowledgements page viii Introduction: An Unavoidable Gaze Global Poverty, Justice, and Intransigent Non-compliance The Right to Resistance Does Global Poverty Trigger the Right to Resistance? Illegal Immigration as Resistance to Global Poverty Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity, and Resistance Redistributive War as Resistance Armed Struggle and Global Poverty Duties of Resistance Conclusion: An Inescapable Choice Bibliography Index vii Acknowledgements This book is the product of a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (ECF- -)heldattheUniversityofCambridge.Iwouldliketoconveymy deepestthankstotheLeverhulmeTrustfortheirgenerosityandtrust,and to my colleagues in the Department of Politics and International Studies for their support. The Master, Fellows, and Students of Corpus Christi Collegemustalsobeacknowledgedforthemanyhoursofconvivialityand fellowship. I count my years living and working in Cambridge as some of the happiest in my life. Finally, my thanks to my colleagues at City, UniversityofLondonforsowarmlywelcomingmeintotheircommunity. Specifically, I would like to thank Duncan Bell, David Runciman, and Cécile Laborde for their advice over the years. Finally, I would like to thankCharlesJones,RichardVernon,andDougLongforintroducingme to political philosophy as an undergraduate student at the University of Western Ontario many years ago. Portionsofthebookhavebeenpresentedatworkshopsandconferences over the past fewyears. I wouldlike to thank theorganisers andattendees of the Association of Political and Social Philosophy Conference, Inter- national Political Science Association Conference, Canadian Political Sci- ence Association Conference, British International Studies Conference, and the Global Policy Institute, Durham University. This bookreturns to materialpublishedelsewhere: ‘Is Global Poverty a Crime against Humanity?’, International Theory , no. (): –; ‘Is There a Human Right to Resistance?’, Human Rights Quarterly , no. (): –; ‘Illegal Immigration as Resistance to Global Pov- erty’, Raisons Politiques , no. (): –. I am very grateful to Cambridge University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, and Les Presses de Science Po for their permission to use elements of this work. I am deeply grateful for the support of Hilary Gaskin, Lisa Carter, and SophieTaylor at CambridgeUniversity Press as wellas the feedbackfrom viii
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