1. For those familiar with the literature on the epistemology of ignorance, it may seem that I am framing my project within that literature. However, as has been made known to me by Stacy Clifford, the critique of political theory from within the literature on “the epistemology of ignorance” is a critique that makes cognitive capacity a measuring stick for humanity. The argument I present here is for a moral philosophy for inquiry, not an attack on ignorance or cognitive capacity. See Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana, eds., Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race) ( Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007 ).
2. For an exposition of this theoretical method that is a normative adaptation of a sociological method, see Brooke A. Ackerly, Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 ).
3. Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper, “The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981–2002,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97, no. 3 (2007): 551–566.
4. Ahsan Uddin Ahmed et al., Climate Change, Gender and Vulnerable Groups in Bangladesh (Dhaka, Bangladesh: Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forests, 2009 ).
5. Rasheda Begum, “Women in Environmental Disasters: The 1991 Cyclone in Bangladesh,” Gender & Development 1, no. 1 (1993): 34–39.