Connected by Commitment
Oppression and Our Responsibility to Undermine It
Mara Marin
Reviews and Awards
"In her insightful and highly original book, Mara Marin offers a new way of explaining how social relations generate obligations to act in ways that undermine oppression." -- Ann E. Cudd, University of Pittsburgh
"A powerful-and empowering-response to the 'circle of powerlessness and denial' that so many of us experience in the face of structural oppression. Connected by Commitment reminds us that our roles in perpetuating structures of oppression themselves contain possibilities for political transformation, and it offers an incisive account of the forms of action and commitment needed to make good on those emancipatory possibilities." --Sharon Krause, author of Freedom Beyond Sovereignty
"This is a brilliant and extremely timely book. Mara Marin challenges readers to think about the responsibility to transform oppressive structures such as gender and racial domination. The book is also a hopeful account that shows how social relations generate norms of responsibility. Connected by Commitment is a theoretically sophisticated book that no political theorist should miss." -Margaret Kohn, author of The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth
"Through her innovative concept of commitment, Marin shows us how to rethink our ongoing yet hidden support for unjust institutions. Focusing on law, care, and work, Marin provides us with a way to understand how our everyday actions support, but could undermine, injustice. This book makes a vital contribution, then, towards a more just world." --Joan C. Tronto, author of Caring Democracy
"Marin develops an original concept of commitment, which offers new understandings of human relationship, of obligation, and of oppression and the paths to ending it. Every political theorist interested in equality should read this exceptional book." --Jennifer Nedelsky, author of Law's Relations
"In her insightful and highly original book, Mara Marin offers a new way of explaining how social relations generate obligations to act in ways that undermine oppression." -- Hypatia