Jay Drydyk
Professor
Philosophy
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Jay Drydyk is interested in how human rights, justice, and democracy can be understood from global and cross-cultural perspectives. With Peter Penz, he co-edited Global Justice, Global Democracy, which explores the meanings of ‘justice’ and ‘democracy’ in the face of globalization. Working with colleagues in India, he has studied ethical risks that arise when development displaces people and their communities. His current project, Global Ethics, Capabilities, and Human Rights, examines the capacity of diverse moral outlooks to reach agreement on practical conclusions, including the right to development. He won a Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award in 2002. He is currently President of the International Development Ethics Association. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association.
Research Interest
Development Ethics Global ethics Human rights Moral communication
Publications
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Ethics and the ‘Climate Migrants’. Ethics, Policy, and Environment 16/1 (Spring 2013): forthcoming, 13 pages.
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Global Ethics. Understanding Ethics, ed. Vibha Chaturvedi and Pragati Sahni (Delhi: Macmillan Education India), forthcoming 2013, 3980 words.
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Empowerment, Agency, and Power. Journal of Global Ethics 9/3 (December 2013): 249-262.
