Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress - Hardcover

Nuti, Alasia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108419941 ISBN 13: 9781108419949

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Demands for redress of historical injustice are a crucial component of contemporary struggles for social and transnational justice. However, understanding when and why an unjust history matters for considerations of justice in the present is not straightforward. Alasia Nuti develops a normative framework to identify which historical injustices we should be concerned about, to conceptualise the relation between persistence and change and, thus, conceive of history as newly reproduced. Focusing on the condition of women in formally egalitarian societies, the book shows that history is important to theorise the injustice of gender inequalities and devise transformative remedies. Engaging with the activist politics of the unjust past, Nuti also demonstrates that the reproduction of an unjust history is dynamic, complex and unsettling. It generates both historical and contemporary responsibilities for redress and questions precisely those features of our order that we take for granted.

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About the Author

Alasia Nuti is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of York. Her work is situated at the intersection of analytical political theory, critical theory, gender studies and critical race theory. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Ethics & International Affairs, Feminist Theory, Political Theory and Ethics & Global Politics. Nuti was also awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for the study of inequality and social justice from the Political Studies Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108419941
• ISBN 13: 9781108419949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238