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Office hours

Summer 2025 office hours: Tby appointment

Interests

• feminist theory
• critiques of capitalism
• history of political thought
• theories of oppression, domination and structural injustice
• legal theory
• authority and political obligation

About Dr. Marin

Mara Marin is associate professor of political theory at the 51³Ô¹Ï. She is interested in the ways in which intersections of gender, race and class reproduce structures of oppression and in how collective action and legal reform can dismantle oppressive structures.

Her first book, Connected by Commitment (Oxford University Press, 2017), examines the relation between descriptive, social-theoretical questions about the nature of oppression, normative questions of responsibility for structural injustice and conceptions of collective action that can transform oppressive structures.

Connected by Commitment argues that three sets of social relations – legal, care and work relations – should be understood on the model of a relationship Marin calls "commitment". A commitment is a relationship of obligations developed over time through the accumulated effect of open-ended actions and responses. The concept of commitment links the descriptive question of what makes oppression enduring to the normative question of what action is required in response to the injustice of oppression.

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