Structural Injustice

Author : Madison Powers,Ruth Faden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190054007

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Structural Injustice by Madison Powers,Ruth Faden Pdf

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 : Alasia Nuti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108419949

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Injustice and the Reproduction of History by Alasia Nuti Pdf

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

Author : Madison Powers,Ruth R. Faden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190053987

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Structural Injustice by Madison Powers,Ruth R. Faden Pdf

Structural Injustice advances a theory of what structural injustice is and how it works. Powers and Faden present both a philosophically powerful, integrated theory about human rights violations and structural unfairness, alongside practical insights into how to improve them.

Author : Catherine Lu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108420112

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Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics by Catherine Lu Pdf

This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?

Author : Madison Powers,Ruth Faden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190053994

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Structural Injustice by Madison Powers,Ruth Faden Pdf

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 : Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies Jude Browne,Jude Browne,Maeve McKeown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198892878

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What Is Structural Injustice? by Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies Jude Browne,Jude Browne,Maeve McKeown Pdf

What is Structural Injustice? is the first edited collection to bring together the voices of leading structural injustice scholars to provide an overview of this profoundly important concept. The volume features specially selected original and essential works on structural injustice, providing a range of disciplinary, ontological, and epistemological perspectives on what structural injustice is, and includes feminist and post-colonial theories to interrogate how structural injustice exacerbates and reproduces existing inequalities and relations of power. This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Author : Thomas Christiano,John Christman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1444310380

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Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy by Thomas Christiano,John Christman Pdf

This collection of 24 essays, written by eminent philosophers and political theorists, brings together fresh debates on some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary political philosophy, including human rights, equality, constitutionalism, the value of democracy, identity and political neutrality. Presents fresh debates on six of the fundamental questions in contemporary political philosophy Each question is treated by a pair of opposing essays written by eminent scholars Lively debate format sharply defines the issues, invites the reader to participate in the exchange of arguments and paves the way for further discussion Will serve as an accessible introduction to the major topics in political philosophy, whilst also capturing the imagination of professional philosophers Offers the unique opportunity to observe leading philosophers engaging in head-to-head debate

Author : Virginia Mantouvalou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192857156

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Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights by Virginia Mantouvalou Pdf

When discussing exploitation in workplaces, governments typically deploy a rhetoric of personal responsibility: they place attention on employers who take advantage of workers, or on workers who choose non-standard, precarious work arrangements. On this account, the responsibility of the state is to address the harm inflicted by private actors. This book questions that approach and develops the concept of 'state-mediated structural injustice at work': a phenomenon which manifests when legislation that has an appearance of legitimacy, in fact has very damaging effects for large numbers of people and results in structures of exploitation at work. Using a series of examples such as migrant workers, captive workers, people under welfare conditionality schemes, and other precarious workers, Mantouvalou shows how the law creates these structures of injustice, entrenching long-term, standard, and routine exploitation. She also assesses these examples against human rights principles, including civil, political, economic, and social rights. The ultimate aim of the work is to show that these structures routinely lead to workers' exploitation which may in turn give rise to state responsibility for human rights violations and to argue that there is a pressing need for reform.

Author : Teena Gabrielson,Cheryl Hall,John M. Meyer,David Schlosberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191508417

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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory by Teena Gabrielson,Cheryl Hall,John M. Meyer,David Schlosberg Pdf

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 : Iris Marion Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199889358

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Responsibility for Justice by Iris Marion Young Pdf

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 : Iris Marion Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Oppression (Psychology)
ISBN : OCLC:53025955

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Political Responsibility and Structural Injustice by Iris Marion Young Pdf

Author : Jeff Spinner-Halev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107017511

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Enduring Injustice by Jeff Spinner-Halev Pdf

Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198892892

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What is Structural Injustice? by Anonim Pdf

What is Structural Injustice? is the first edited collection to bring together the voices of leading structural injustice scholars to provide an overview of this profoundly important concept. The volume features specially selected original and essential works on structural injustice, providing a range of disciplinary, ontological, and epistemological perspectives on what structural injustice is, and includes feminist and post-colonial theories to interrogate how structural injustice exacerbates and reproduces existing inequalities and relations of power. This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Author : Jennifer Balint,Julie Evans,Nesam McMillan,Mark McMillan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131686

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Keeping Hold of Justice by Jennifer Balint,Julie Evans,Nesam McMillan,Mark McMillan Pdf

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.

Author : Severine Deneulin,Mathias Nebel,Nicholas Sagovsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402044328

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Transforming Unjust Structures by Severine Deneulin,Mathias Nebel,Nicholas Sagovsky Pdf

SÉVERINE DENEULIN, MATHIAS NEBEL AND NICHOLAS SAGOVSKY TRANSFORMING UNJUST STRUCTURES The Capability Approach THE CAPABILITY APPROACH Structural injustice has traditionally been the concern of two major academic disciplines: economics and philosophy. The dominant model of economics has long been that of neo-classical economics. For neo-classical economists, human we- being is to be assessed by the availability of disposable income or according to goods consumed; it is measured by the levels of utility achieved in the consumption of commodities. Social order is fashioned by the ways consumers maximise their 1 well-being and enterprises maximise their profits. A core assumption is that all 2 commodities are commensurable: they can all be measured according to a single 3 numerical covering value, which is their price. Within this neo-classical paradigm, justice is achieved when the utility level of someone cannot be increased without 4 another person seeing his or her utility level decrease. The dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics was strongly challenged when development and welfare economist Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His work offered an alternative to the neo-classical evaluation of human well-being in the utility/commodity space. The underlining philosophical intuition behind Sen’s work is that the standard of living lies in the living and not in the consumption of commodities. In searching for an alternative measure of human well-being, Sen devised his capability approach.