Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Paper Presentation
Department
Philosophy
College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Date Range
2011-2012
Abstract
This paper develops an idea of ethical advocacy as our moral responsibility to victims of violence. While ethical advocacy is not a new theory, this paper grounds our moral responsibility for advocacy in an understanding of violence as a loss of voice. Voice is understood as a robust intersubjective and political metaphor for agency and subjectivity. If violence is a loss of voice, then the responsibility of an advocate is not just to be a voice for victims, but to cultivate the conditions under which victims may find their voice again. Three models of advocacy are reviewed here: Sally Scholz's argument for ethical advocacy, Susan Brison and Hilde Lindemann Nelson's arguments for narrative retellings, and Kelly Olive's theory of witnessing.
Conference Name
Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Conference Location
Zion, Illinois
ScholarWorks Citation
Mosko, Melissa, "Paper Presentation" (2011). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 342.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/342
