This book will act as a blueprint for future scholarly attempts to engage in these oft-overlooked nonideal questions, especially given the way it is able to combine relatively abstract political theorizing so successfully with empirical work from critical development scholars and social movement researchers.
Monique Deveaux is Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States (Oxford University Press, 2006), Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice (Cornell University Press, 2000), and a co-editor of volumes on multiculturalism and the thought of philosopher Onora O'Neill. She has written widely on diversity, deliberative democracy, gender equality, exploitation, and poverty.