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"I bought you. You are my wife": "Modern Slavery" and Forced Marriage (2022)
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Forced marriage is identified as a serious global challenge and has recently been linked to modern slavery. In this article we seek to understand how slavery, institutions and practices similar to slavery, and other forms of exploitation are linked t... Read More about "I bought you. You are my wife": "Modern Slavery" and Forced Marriage.

Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery: Analysing Marriage as a “Choiceless Choice”. (2022)
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Several international conventions, and domestic law in fifty-two countries, ban forced marriage, and Human Rights conventions insist that marriage should only be entered into with the “free and full consent” of both parties. Using rational choice the... Read More about Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery: Analysing Marriage as a “Choiceless Choice”..

John Stuart Mill’s view on democracy and government in Gregory Conti’s Parliament the Mirror of the Nation (2022)
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Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments (2022)
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Should philosophy of race be taught as part of a philosophy degree? This paper argues that it should. After surveying 1,166 modules on offer in 2019–2020, across forty-seven philosophy departments in the United Kingdom, however, the authors identifie... Read More about Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments.

Response to comments–John Stuart Mill, socialist (2022)
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Human Trafficking in Kenya: A Participatory Approach (2021)
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Researchers and practitioners are increasingly calling for the involvement of survivors of human trafficking at all levels of, and in all areas of, anti-trafficking research, policy, work and legislation. Although it is now quite common for survivors... Read More about The Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Human Trafficking in Kenya: A Participatory Approach.

John Stuart Mill on "legitimate socialism" and the 1848 revolution in Paris (2020)
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According to his Autobiography, the 1848 revolution in Paris prompted Mill to present his politics “under the general designation of Socialist” in the 1852 edition of Principles of Political Economy. Yet some read, in his later Chapters on Socialism,... Read More about John Stuart Mill on "legitimate socialism" and the 1848 revolution in Paris.

John Stuart Mill: market socialist? (2020)
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Compared to other elements of his political and economic thought, John Stuart Mill’s claim to be ‘under the general designation of Socialist’ has largely been ignored. Where it has been acknowledged, it has generally been denied. One exception to thi... Read More about John Stuart Mill: market socialist?.

“Political … civil and domestic slavery”: Harriet Taylor Mill and Anna Doyle Wheeler on marriage, servitude, and socialism (2020)
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Harriet Taylor Mill and Anna Wheeler are two 19th century British feminists generally over-shadowed by the fame of the men with whom they co-authored (respectively John Stuart Mill and William Thompson). Yet both made important, and interesting, cont... Read More about “Political … civil and domestic slavery”: Harriet Taylor Mill and Anna Doyle Wheeler on marriage, servitude, and socialism.

Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill's Socialism (2020)
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John Stuart Mill’s assertion that his politics were best described as ‘under the general designation of Socialist’ is often ignored, and – where acknowledged – blamed on his wife, Harriet Taylor. In this article, I explore this particular ‘Harriet Ta... Read More about Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill's Socialism.

Elijah Millgram, John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life, Oxford University Press, 2019, 248pp., $74.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780190873240 (2020)
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'There never was a time when so great a drama was being played out in one generation': John Stuart Mill and the French Revolution of 1848 (2019)
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The events of 1848 in France had a profound effect on John Stuart Mill, marking both an important change, and emphasising an important continuity, in his radical political thought. Mill had always had a strong interest in French politics, and a long-... Read More about 'There never was a time when so great a drama was being played out in one generation': John Stuart Mill and the French Revolution of 1848.

Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress (2019)
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In The Political Economy of Progress, Joseph Persky argues for seeing J.S. Mill as a consistent ‘radical’ with much to offer modern ‘radical’ political discourse. In this article, I further this claim with consideration of Mill's political philosophy... Read More about Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress.

Timothy Larsen John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Pp.vi + 229. £30:00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198753155 (2019)
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Book review.

Navigating by the North Star: the role of the 'ideal' in J.S. Mill's View of 'utopian' schemes and the possibilities of social transformation (2019)
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The role of the 'ideal' in political philosophy is currently much discussed. These debates cast useful light on Mill's self-designation as 'under the general designation of Socialist'. Considering Mill's assessment of potential property-relations on... Read More about Navigating by the North Star: the role of the 'ideal' in J.S. Mill's View of 'utopian' schemes and the possibilities of social transformation.

John Stuart Mill and Fourierism: ‘association’, ‘friendly rivalry’ and distributive justice (2018)
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John Stuart Mill’s self-description as ‘under the general designation of Socialist’ has been under-explored. It is an important feature of something else often overlooked: the importance of the French context of Mill’s thought. This article focuses... Read More about John Stuart Mill and Fourierism: ‘association’, ‘friendly rivalry’ and distributive justice.

“Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour (2018)
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This paper considers an oft-criticised passage of John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women, arguing that Mill’s position is misunderstood. In this passage, Mill identifies a trilemma facing women in non-ideal circumstances. Two elements of this c... Read More about “Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour.

John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’ (2015)
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John Stuart Mill’s commitment to female equality has generally been acknowledged as positive, but certain passages have been damned as anti-feminist or myopic regarding the reality of patriarchy, and used as sticks with which to beat both Mill’s theo... Read More about John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’.

John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion (2014)
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In his youth, John Stuart Mill followed his father’s philosophy of persuasion but, in 1830, Mill adopted a new philosophy of persuasion, trying to lead people incrementally towards the truth from their original stand-points rather than engage them an... Read More about John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion.