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Asuncion St. Clair, University of Bergen
Asuncion St. Clair is Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Bergen. Her work has focused on ethical and normative problems related to poverty and development. In particular, she has applied analytical tools from the field of social studies of science and philosophy to the interface between scientific knowledge on poverty, politics and ethics among multilateral development agencies. Her current work relates to questions of poverty and climate change, in particular the emergent expert discourse on the issues; and an attempt to devise a theory of responsibility for addressing both climate change and poverty jointly.
Asuncion is the Scientific Director of the Comparative Research on Poverty Programme (CROP), International Social Science Council (ISSC). www.crop.org and Vice President, International Development Ethics Association (IDEA). Her latest book, published in 2009, is Global Poverty, Ethics, and Human Rights: The Role of Multilateral Organisations, Routledge (With Desmond McNeill). Forthcoming publications are Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security, Cambridge University Press (edited with Karen O’Brien and Berit Kristoffersen), and Development Ethics: A Reader, Ashgate, with Des Gasper.
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