On Disassociating Oneself from Collective Responsiblity

Räikkä, Juha

doi:10.5840/soctheorpract19972315

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“…They have looked into the political, emotional, and moral aspects of responsibility, supporting them with historical examples and individual cases. Räikkä (1997), for example, seeks to clarify the ethics of disassociating oneself from unjust collective practices. He asks whether genuinely opposing evil practices means that the individual does not share the group's blame, and suggests that the position according to which opposing evil practices saves a person from responsibility is not justified.…”

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“…To conclude, the Ukrainian academic community demands that Russian academics should share collective responsibility even if they oppose the atrocities carried out by their country, which, as Räikkä (1997) logically proves, "is hardly groundbreaking" (p. 102). Russian intellectuals cannot claim to be innocent after advocating for imperialistic ideas that inflated the national sense of impunity to the extent that their country started a genocidal war against a neighbouring people that have been trying to throw off the colonial burden for centuries.…”

Section: Oksana Zabolotnamentioning

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Debating academic boycotts and cooperation in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine

Kangas,

Mäkinen,

Dubrovskiy

et al. 2023

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This forum is a contribution to debates over the (im)possibility of cooperating with the Russian academic community while Russia’s war against Ukraine continues. After briefly reviewing previous studies on the effectiveness and morality of academic sanctions, the forum continues to assess the politics and effectiveness of the academic boycott in changing the belligerent behaviour of the Russian regime. For this purpose, it introduces the idea of ontological (in)security and moves on to discuss, from different perspectives, whether sanctions and boycotts may lead to policy change by way of destabilizing the ontological security of Russia, or whether the academic boycott contributes to strengthening the ruling authoritarian regime.

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Section: Oksana Zabolotnamentioning

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Debating academic boycotts and cooperation in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine

Kangas,

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Dubrovskiy

et al. 2023

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“…This confirms that the exact wording of the documents is particularly important when a definable community becomes a subject of a cross-border discourse on moral responsibility for the deeds of any government or administration that claims to be their representatives (cf . Räikkä, 1997) .…”

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Implications of Russia’s war in Ukraine for Belarus and its society: what exactly is written in the EU documents?

Kascian

2022

PGAF

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This article provides an assessment of the relevant EU documents pertinent to the restrictive measures against Lukashenka’s regime after the 2020 fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus and since the beginning of 2022 Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. The text identifies relevant concepts and provides their contextual analysis vis-à-vis their linkage with Belarus in general, its society and Lukashenka’s regime. The article reveals that Belarus did not become a priority of the EU and its pre-war critical engagement policy failed to contribute to the development of a unified EU-wide vocabulary addressing the Belarusian case. With the start of the war, it was internationalised and placed within a binarity “victim of aggression – (co-)aggressor” with little evidence of an unequivocal shift towards a primary focus on the contextual interpretation of the domestic developments in Belarus.ts in Belarus.

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“…For Hobbes, this is the ultimate rationale for responsibility mediated through state representation. Since citizens create the 42 For a careful and insightful study of Hobbes's account of representation, see the classic study in Pitkin (1967).…”

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“… 80 For examples, see Feinberg (1968), McGary (1986), and Gilbert (2006b). For a critique of such views, focused on attributive responsibility but close to the spirit of my own argument, see Räikkä (1997). …”

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Collective responsibility and the state

Parrish

2009

Int Theory

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This article considers the question of whether and to what degree citizens are responsible collectively for the actions of their state. In contrast to current accounts of collective responsibility, which focus on causality or affect as means for transmitting responsibility, the article develops an alternative account, the ‘authorized state’ model. This model, drawn from core intuitions of the social contract tradition, sees collective responsibility as being transmitted through the state as the agent or representative of its citizens. Having developed this model as an ideal type, the article then assesses under what circumstances the model is most applicable. The article finally applies the model to the US war in Iraq to assess the collective responsibility of US citizens for the outcomes of that war.

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On Disassociating Oneself from Collective Responsiblity

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Debating academic boycotts and cooperation in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine

Debating academic boycotts and cooperation in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine

Implications of Russia’s war in Ukraine for Belarus and its society: what exactly is written in the EU documents?

Collective responsibility and the state

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