Against Abolition

Cull, Matthew J.

doi:10.5206/fpq/2019.3.5898

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“…7See Díaz-León 2016; Cull 2020. R. A. Rowland has recently suggested a fittingness account of gender identity that involves treating the reasons involved as those of appropriateness—such that the nature of the justification provided is that it is fitting to treat such a person in such-and-such a way (see Rowland forthcoming).…”

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Trans Epistemology and Methodological Radicalism: Un Œuf, But Enough

Cull

2024

Hypatia

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There have now been a few attempts in trans theory to give an account of trans epistemology (see Radi 2019; Meadow 2016; and Dickson 2021). I will suggest that despite an admirable goal—that of giving an epistemology that provides a methodologically radical and distinctively trans break from other contemporary epistemological theory—thus far no account has been successful. Instead, I suggest that, in the absence of a more satisfactory radical account of trans epistemology, we can think of trans epistemology as a methodologically moderate (though politically radical) extension of mainstream epistemology.

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Trans Epistemology and Methodological Radicalism: Un Œuf, But Enough

Cull

2024

Hypatia

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“… 26 Beyond prison abolition, perhaps the most widely discussed proposals revolve around abolishing gender (Cull 2019; Earp 2021) and the police (Chazkel, Kim, and Paik 2020; McDowell and Fernandez 2018). …”

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Eco-Miserabilism and Radical Hope: On the Utopian Vision of Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism

Thaler

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Eco-miserabilism—the thought that it is already too late to avert the collapse of human civilization—is gaining traction in contemporary environmentalism. This paper offers a “reparative” reading of this post-apocalyptic approach by defending it against those who associate it with defeatism and fatalism. My argument is that authors like Roy Scranton and the members of the Dark Mountain collective, while rejecting mainstream activism, remain invested in a specific kind of (radical) hope. Eco-miserabilists, hence, promote an affective politics for our climate-changed world that is both negative and iconoclastic. Without offering blueprints for a desirable future, they critically interrogate reality and disenchant the “cruel optimism” (Lauren Berlant) behind reformist plans for a “good Anthropocene.” The ultimate target of the eco-miserabilist position is the illusion that groundbreaking innovations, either in the realm of science and technology or of ordinary representative politics, could redeem us on an environmentally ravaged planet.

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“…a male gender identity-that make it fitting to treat them as a man) as a man. 54 Furthermore, even 53 See Cull (2019) for discussion. 54 Similarly, suppose that you are a moral error theorist who believes that we should abolish morality.…”

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The normativity of gender

Rowland

2023

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There are important similarities between moral thought and talk and thought and talk about gender: disagreements about gender, like disagreements about morality, seem to be intractable and to outstrip descriptive agreement; and it seems coherent to reject any definition of what it is to be a woman in terms of particular social, biological, or other descriptive features, just as it seems coherent to reject any definition of what it is to be good or right in terms of any set of descriptive properties. These similarities give us reason to investigate the idea that, like moral thought and talk, gender thought and talk is inherently normative. This paper proposes a normative account of gender thought and talk in terms of fitting treatment. On this fitting treatment account, to judge that A is gender G is just to judge that it is fitting to treat A as a G. This account is a descriptive or hermeneutical account of our gender thought and talk rather than an ameliorative account of our gender concepts or a metaphysical account of gender properties in social metaphysics. This paper argues that other descriptive accounts of gender thought and talk face problems that the fitting treatment account overcomes.

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Against Abolition

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

Trans Epistemology and Methodological Radicalism: Un Œuf, But Enough

Trans Epistemology and Methodological Radicalism: Un Œuf, But Enough

Eco-Miserabilism and Radical Hope: On the Utopian Vision of Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism

The normativity of gender

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