...Finally, I look at recent developments, including the declaration by the State of New York that the Onondaga Lake cleanup has been completed. What that means is a matter of some dispute in environmental ethics. By contrast with remediation, I explore the meaning of environmental restoration, both...

... a spotlight on a host of issues that threaten the legitimacy of policing—excessive force, racial bias, over-policing of marginalized communities, historic injustices that remain unaddressed, and new technology that increases police powers. This introduction gives an overview of these ethical challenges facing...

... Kleinig John Scott v Harris respect law enforcement lethal force militarization police professional ethics role morality war In the first eight months of 2018, 668 people were shot and killed by police officers in the United States. In the same period, the Norwegian police didn’t shoot anyone...

... for Black lives and social justice in the U.S. Steele signals the increasing importance of public scholarship and a sustained commitment to digital ethics as scholars aim to center marginalized communities in their work on digital culture. The book concludes by reminding readers of the complications...

... envisions. She tends to displace political questions by the appeal for a new ethical sensibility. Unfortunately, Bennett offers no convincing argument as to how the “energetics of ethics” is coupled with political dynamics or how the vital politics she advocates translates into a radical change...

... the important role that lawyers can play in addressing some of the most important challenges of the age: climate change, natural disasters, and major accidents; threats to freedom of the press and the rule of law; economic inequality; police-community relations; and legal ethics, conflicts of interest...

...We suggest light can be shed on the moral dilemmas by looking at drones as a type of preventive force that lies in the undefined security space between acts of war and acts of law-enforcement, what some scholars have been referring to as jus ad vim. Thus, ethical standards governing their use...

... the ethical implications of the RCT as it excludes what may come to matter to the researched, while purporting to protect them through compliance with bioethical protocols from any untoward interests of the scientists. The phrase ‘experimental subjects kick back’ points to a conjoining of Barad’s concepts...

.... It identifies the kitchen of Ilé Laroye as the micro-site of the book’s “sensuous ethnography” and explains the research methods employed in the service of its comparative methodological approach. After considering the ethics of the ethnographic enterprise, the affect-laden circumstances of data collection...

...The distinction between the healthy and the good, a major basis for ethical reflection, has become increasingly blurred in the past few decades. González seeks to reintroduce that distinction, and to explain the tendency to naturalize the good with reference to developments in nineteenth-century...

...This chapter analyzes lawyerly partisanship to illuminate not just lawyers' ethics but also the ethical nature of partiality more generally, because the way in which the ethics of partiality is developed in lawyers reveals that partiality possesses forms and purposes that are otherwise hidden from...

... system of which they are supposed to be a constitutive part. This chapter reviews this context and describes the legal underpinnings and ambiguities of the prosecutor’s professional and ethical obligation to see justice done, even as jury trials decline in number. It contends that formulations of justice...

... discourses, focusing on how trauma can be embedded in the listening to and retelling of victimization stories and then entangled in meaning-making about interlocutor agency. The author uses embodied reflexivity to think through care work entanglements and research ethics concerning them. anti trafficking...

... stigmatization and the medicalization of obesity in El Salvador through a neoimperial lens questioning how research itself might be a mutual healing practice. The chapter ends with suggestions for how trauma can provide conceptual tools for feminist scholars to address research, method, and ethics through...

... faced with scientific evidence that signals a prisoner's innocence. It also offers suggests ways on how defendants can respond to post-conviction prosecutors who refuse to accept proof of their innocence, such as pursuing litigation and filing ethics complaints against such prosecutors. prosecutorial...

... nutritional ideologies research ethics Among my many activities at Hometown Charter, I co-taught an enrichment course on food and culture for middle schoolers. A theme that recurred in our classroom conversations was the idea that certain foods, while marked as “junk” or as “unhealthy,” were also...

...Chapter 4 reads Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) as a thought experiment about the ethics of humane farming. In this novel cloned human beings are raised as sources of organs for noncloned human beings; they are killed in the donation process early in their adulthood...

... and treat performers, constructing social rules that guide their sense of ethics and their judgments about the “success” of an event. These ethical sensibilities stem from these musicians' training and their relationships with fellow musicians and audience members that shape what constitutes “professional...

...This introductory chapter discusses pragmatic naturalism, approaching ethics from an evolutionary point of view. Pragmatic naturalism conceives of ethics as a project, something in which human beings have been involved for most of their history as a species. It is not complete...