‘This consistently excellent volume puts race and empire at the heart of discussions of global justice, where they should be. Racial domination and white supremacy, alongside imperial rule and settler colonialism, have profoundly shaped the contemporary global order. Theories of global justice must take stock of this truth if they are to mount anything like an adequate response to the inequality, exploitation, poverty, endemic violence and environmental degradation that afflict our world. These lucid and accessible essays, at once historical and theoretical, offer a persistently thoughtful challenge to the widespread neglect of race and empire in the literature on global justice.’ Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago
Introduction: empire, race, and global justice Duncan Bell; 1. Reparations, history, and the origins of global justice Katrina Forrester; 2. The doctor's plot: the origins of the philosophy of human rights Samuel Moyn; 3. Corporations, universalism and the domestication of race in international law Sundhya Pahuja; 4. Race and global justice Charles W. Mills; 5. Association, reciprocity and emancipation: a transnational account of the politics of global justice Inés Valdez; 6. Global justice: just another modernisation theory? Anne Phillips; 7. Globalizing global justice Margaret Kohn; 8. Challenging liberal belief: Edward said and the critical practice of history Jeanne Morefield; 9. Cosmopolitan just war and coloniality Kimberley Hutchings; 10. Indigenous peoples, settler colonialism, and global justice in Anglo-America Robert Nichols; 11. Decolonizing borders, self-determination, and global justice Catherine Lu.