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    Cosmopolitanism can adequately address the entitlements a... — Carmelics
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    Cosmopolitanism can adequately address the entitlements and agency of those living in poverty

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    • 1.Cosmopolitan theorists have examined the entitlements of those living in poverty
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    • 2.Cosmopolitan theorists have argued in favor of poor-led social movements
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    • 3.Alternative forms of cosmopolitanism 'from below' have been developed
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    • 1.Cosmopolitan frameworks are structurally dependent on liberal individualism, which misrepresents the communal basis of subsistence economies and poor peoples' actual moral self-understanding.
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    • 2.When cosmopolitan theorists advocate for poor-led movements, they impose externally derived rights-language that can displace indigenous forms of political claim-making, as Polanyi's analysis of market society suggests.
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    • 1.Cosmopolitan institutional proposals, such as Pogge's Global Resources Dividend, operate within and thereby legitimate the same neoliberal order that structurally produces poverty, as critics like Benhabib and Milanovic have argued.
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    • 2.Theorizing entitlements from within existing global economic arrangements forecloses the more radical restructuring that effective poverty abolition would require.
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    Another common objection to cosmopolitanism associates it with imperialism, colonialism, and paternalism. Some cosmopolitans, despite taking themselves to be opposed to imperialism, colonialism, and paternalism, are charged with focusing too narrowly on the responsibilities (and perspectives) of the affluent while conceiving of those living in poverty mainly as the passive recipients of their “aid.” Such focus indeed shows little sensitivity to questions of epistemic justice and to the wide rang
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