Margaret Urban Walker
Marquette University
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Hastings Center Report | 1993
Margaret Urban Walker
The moral expertise of clinical ethicists is not a question of mastering codelike theories and lawlike principles. Rather, ethicists are architects of moral space within the health care setting, as well as mediators in the conversations taking place within that space.
Journal of Human Rights | 2006
Margaret Urban Walker
PHASE ONE: THE BUILD-UP PHASE The first phase is characterized by minor battering incidents and/or and emotional abuse over imagined or real infractions of rules and expectations of the male partner. The woman sometimes responds calmly, trying to de-escalate the situation or she may attempt to defend her position in the relationship. They may both attempt to rationalize away his behavior as stress reactions related to work or finances, etc. Often the woman believes her adapting behavior will act to control his violence. This tension building phase time lapse varies greatly from the relationship to relationship. For some it may be days or weeks, for others there may be years of tension building between acute incidents. As the tension builds, her coping skills may become less and less effective at protecting herself or de-escalating the tension. It is during this phase that women will often reach out for help or support since they are aware of the increasing danger. Other than services designed for battered women, many community services do not recognize her need at this stage since there is not “evidence of violence.”
Archive | 2013
Margaret Urban Walker
I propose a novel account of the essentially expressive nature of reparations. My account is descriptive of new practices of reparations that have emerged in the past half-century, and it provides normative guidance on conditions of success for reparative attempts. My account attributes to reparative attempts a dual expressive function: a communicative function that requires the gesture to carry a vindicatory message to victims; and an exemplifying function that requires the gesture to model the right relationship that was absent or violated in the wrongdoing to which reparations respond. This account is able to explain the breadth and variety of measures now recognized as reparations; how reparative attempts can fail in two distinct ways; and why material compensation is never sufficient and not always necessary to reparations.
Archive | 2017
Margaret Urban Walker
Peter French suggests that mythic and reassuring collective memories prevalent in societies can render us “morally challenged” in facing the truth. I explore this idea by asking if there is a responsibility to remember mass violence and grave injustice and if so upon whom this responsibility falls. I argue that a distinctive duty to remember can only reasonably fall upon societies (as it does in emergent international human rights norms) as continuing historical entities who exercise agency through their governing institutions. States, mostly obviously democratic ones constitutively committed to their citizens’ political equality, have obligations to pursue, preserve, and make available accurate historical memory. While not sufficient, fostering accurate collective memory is necessary to equip citizens to understand and accept the need for justice to address persistent disadvantage and other harms that result from histories of profound injustice. For related reasons, some nonstate institutions might also have obligations of memory with regard to injustice. Because individual members of society may find it challenging to accept their general civic obligation to support their society’s legitimate actions in pursuit of accurate but disturbing or shameful historical memory, I suggest we think of mastering this predictable resistance as a kind of civic virtue.
Archive | 2007
Margaret Urban Walker
Archive | 2006
Margaret Urban Walker
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy | 1989
Margaret Urban Walker
Archive | 1999
Margaret Urban Walker
Archive | 2008
Hilde Lindemann; Marian Verkerk; Margaret Urban Walker
Journal of Social Philosophy | 2006
Margaret Urban Walker