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Author : Iris Marion Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Oppression (Psychology)
ISBN : OCLC:53025955
Author : Iris Marion Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199889358
When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and international affairs; and gender, race and public policy. In her long-awaited Responsibility for Justice, Young discusses our responsibilities to address "structural" injustices in which we among many are implicated (but for which we not to blame), often by virtue of participating in a market, such as buying goods produced in sweatshops, or participating in booming housing markets that leave many homeless. Young argues that addressing these structural injustices requires a new model of responsibility, which she calls the "social connection" model. She develops this idea by clarifying the nature of structural injustice; developing the notion of political responsibility for injustice and how it differs from older ideas of blame and guilt; and finally how we can then use this model to describe our responsibilities to others no matter who we are and where we live. With a foreward by Martha C. Nussbaum, this last statement by a revered and highly influential thinker will be of great interest to political theorists and philosophers, ethicists, and feminist and political philosophers.
Author : Teena Gabrielson,Cheryl Hall,John M. Meyer,David Schlosberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191508417
Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT). Featuring contributions from distinguished political scientists working in this field, this volume addresses canonical theorists and contemporary environmental problems with a diversity of theoretical approaches. The initial volume focuses on EPT as a field of inquiry, engaging both traditions of political thought and the academy. In the second section, the handbook explores conceptualizations of nature and the environment, as well as the nature of political subjects, communities, and boundaries within our environments. A third section addresses the values that motivate environmental theorists—including justice, responsibility, rights, limits, and flourishing—and the potential conflicts that can emerge within, between, and against these ideals. The final section examines the primary structures that constrain or enable the achievement of environmental ends, as well as theorizations of environmental movements, citizenship, and the potential for on-going environmental action and change.
Author : Madison Powers,Ruth Faden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190054007
Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms. Norms of both kinds are grounded in an account of well-being. Their well-being account provides the foundation for human rights, explains the depth of unfairness of systematic patterns of disadvantage, and locates the unfairness of power relations in forms of control some groups have over the well-being of other groups. They explain how human rights violations and structurally unfair patterns of power and advantage are so often interconnected. Unlike theories of structural injustice tailored for largely benign social processes, Powers and Faden's theory addresses typical patterns of structural injustice-those in which the wrongful conduct of identifiable agents creates or sustains mutually reinforcing forms of injustice. These patterns exist both within nation-states and across national boundaries. However, this theory rejects the claim that for a structural theory to be broadly applicable both within and across national boundaries its central claims must be universally endorsable. Instead, Powers and Faden find support for their theory in examples of structural injustice around the world, and in the insights and perspectives of related social movements. Their theory also differs from approaches that make enhanced democratic decision-making or the global extension of republican institutions the centerpiece of proposed remedies. Instead, the theory focuses on justifiable forms of resistance in circumstances in which institutions are unwilling or unable to address pressing problems of injustice. The insights developed in Structural Injustice will interest not only scholars and students in a range of disciplines from political philosophy to feminist theory and environmental justice, but also activists and journalists engaged with issues of social justice.
Author : Catherine Lu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108420112
This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?
Author : Genevieve Johnson,Loralea Michaelis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442665774
In our highly globalized and networked society, even our most seemingly local actions can have far-reaching social, political, economic, and environmental consequences. Has this changed our moral and political obligations towards people distant from us in space and time – for instance, to generations who are not yet or no longer living, or towards those beyond the borders of our own nations? Political Responsibility Refocused explores the theoretical foundations and practical implications of individual and collective responsibility towards those who are spatially or temporally separate from us. These essays offer critical assessments of our political responsibilities on topics such as residential schools, sweatshop labour, climate change, and forms of energy generation. Inspired by the final published writings of political and social theorist Iris Marion Young, specifically her outline of a “social connection model” of political responsibility, the contributors assess whether there are practices, policies, and institutions that could meaningfully address these expanded political responsibilities.
Author : Maeve McKeown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350195790
What is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it? In answering these questions Maeve McKeown goes beyond the widely accepted narrative of unintended consequences and blameless participation to explain how power and responsibility truly function in today's world. Drawing on case studies from sweatshops to climate change, McKeown identifies three types of structural injustice: the pure and unintended accumulation of disparate activities; the avoidable injustice that could be ameliorated by the powerful but nevertheless continues; the deliberate perpetuation of structural processes that benefit powerful political and economic agents. In each of these, the role of power is different which changes the allocation of responsibility. From this understanding, we can shape a deeper, more sophisticated idea of how structural injustice operates and what we as individuals can do about it. What is the political responsibility of ordinary individuals? How can ordinary individuals with very little power pressure morally responsible, powerful agents to address structural injustice? Do we have the same responsibility for historical injustice as we do for that which we see in today's world? This is fundamental reassessment of the relationship between power, ordinary people and responsibility for structural injustice.
Author : Genevieve Fuji Johnson,Loralea Michaelis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442614420
In our highly globalized and networked society, even our most seemingly local actions can have far-reaching social, political, economic, and environmental consequences. Has this changed our moral and political obligations towards people distant from us in space and time for instance, to generations who are not yet or no longer living, or towards those beyond the borders of our own nations? Political Responsibility Refocused explores the theoretical foundations and practical implications of individual and collective responsibility towards those who are spatially or temporally separate from us. These essays offer critical assessments of our political responsibilities on topics such as residential schools, sweatshop labour, climate change, and forms of energy generation. Inspired by the final published writings of political and social theorist Iris Marion Young, specifically her outline of a social connection model of political responsibility, the contributors assess whether there are practices, policies, and institutions that could meaningfully address these expanded political responsibilities.
Author : Alasia Nuti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108419949
Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.
Author : Brooke A. Ackerly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190662936
Can we respond to injustices in the world in ways that do more than just address their consequences? In this book, Brooke A. Ackerly argues that what to do about injustice is not just an ethical or moral question, but a political question about assuming responsibility for injustice. Ultimately, Just Responsibility offers a theory of global injustice and political responsibility that can guide action.
Author : Iris Marion Young,Danielle S. Allen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691152622
"In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements that were created by marginal and excluded groups, including women, African Americans, and American Indians, as well as gays and lesbians. Young argues that by assuming a homogeneous public, democratic theorists fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms. Consequently, theorists do not adequately address the problems of an inclusive participatory framework. Basing her vision of the good society on the culturally plural networks of contemporary urban life, Young makes the case that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group differences"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jeff Spinner-Halev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107017511
Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today.
Author : Ellen Frankel Paul,Fred D. Miller (Jr.),Jeffrey Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521674409
Since the end of the Cold War, there has been increasing interest in the global dimensions of a host of public policy issues - issues involving war and peace, terrorism, international law, regulation of commerce, environmental protection, and disparities of wealth, income, and access to medical care. Especially pressing is the question of whether it is possible to formulate principles of justice that are valid not merely within a single society but across national borders. The thirteen essays in this volume explore a range of issues that are central to contemporary discussions of global politics. Written by prominent philosophers, political scientists, economists, and legal theorists, they offer valuable contributions to current debates over the nature of justice and its implications for the development of international law and international institutions.
Author : Jade Schiff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107041622
Burdens of Political Responsibility discusses experiences of political responsibility through a variety of disciplines, including political theory, phenomenology, sociology, and literary criticism.
Author : Jennifer Balint,Julie Evans,Nesam McMillan,Mark McMillan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131686
Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognizing and redressing it. In so doing, the book seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for structural justice that still exist despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism. It puts forward that these possibilities can be found through collaborative methodologies and practices, such as those informing this book, that actively bring together different disciplines, peoples, temporalities, laws and ways of knowing. They reveal law not only as a source of colonial harm but also as a potential means of keeping hold of justice.