Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics

ISBN-13: 9781108420112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str.

Catherine Yen Lu

Opis

How should justice and reconciliation in world politics be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?

Recenzje

'We generally think about injustice in the international domain in interactional terms, highlighting, for example, the injustices perpetrated on colonized peoples by imperial powers. This leads to the question: who owes what, to whom, to make reparation for past injustices? A host of problems bedevil this line of inquiry including this one: why should we (some of us, all of us?) be held accountable for actions of others long gone? What was done by empires, now vanished, was not our fault. In this work, Catherine Lu posits a robust challenge to the interactional approach. In its stead she presents a structural analysis which shows how our contemporary global practices may be seen as structurally unjust and how these emerged from earlier arrangements which themselves perpetrated structural injustices. In this thoughtful book she explores the implications of structural analyses for all who seek justice, reparation, the overcoming of structural alienation and the achievement of reconciliation.' Mervyn Frost, King's College, London

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Justice and reconciliation: Versailles 1919; 2. Pathologies of victimhood; 3. Settling accounts; 4. Agents, structures, and colonial injustice; 5. History and structural injustice; 6. Reconciliation and alienation; 7. Reparations; 8. Beyond reparations: towards structural transformation.