CSaRO Intersectional Ethics seminar with Associate Professor Robbin Derry

 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Building LB, LB3.323, Tuesday 19 June 2018

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Intersectional Ethics draws on intersectional theory and analysis to propose key questions for ethical reasoning. Building on the scholarship of Patricia Collins and Sirma Bilge (2016), Associate Professor Robbin Derry develops a framework that critically assesses the distribution of power in social structures and identifies persistent intersections of oppression. Integrating contemporary research in feminism and gender studies, she argues that Intersectional Ethics must advocate for the validation of knowledge and action, arising from these intersections of oppression. The field of business ethics has been reiterating static understandings of feminism, of gender, and even of ethical theory over four decades of research and teaching. Each of these streams of theory has continued to evolve in the face of critique and emerging insights. To ignore these is to risk increasing irrelevance. Intersectional theory has deep roots in emancipatory reflection and action. The proposed framework for Intersectional Ethics creates a bridge between Black feminist theory, social constructions of gender, and critical business ethics, resulting in tools for ethical analysis of cultural power and for understanding the systemic reproduction of privilege and injustice

A light lunch will be provided.

Waterfront students are invited to attend via VMP: BL 3 39324

Presenter

Robbin Derry

Robbin Derry is an Associate Professor in strategy at the Dhillon School of Business at the University of Lethbridge in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her current research builds a bridge between Intersectional theory and Business Ethics. She is most interested in topics related to social justice and critical assessments of organizational practices. Robbin has published on gender and moral reasoning, sexual harassment in the workplace, tobacco industry strategies, improving sustainability through complexity thinking, and challenging the marginalization of stakeholders. She has served as the conference chair and president of the International Association for Business and Society, as a representative at large for the Critical Management Studies division of the Academy of Management, and as an associate editor for Business and Society journal. Robbin earned her BA at Dartmouth College, her MBA and PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Prior to joining the University of Lethbridge, Robbin was a senior fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Holshouser Professor of Ethics at Appalachian State University, and a visiting Research Professor at the Kellogg School of Northwestern University.