Responsibility for structural injustice
Following Iris Marion Young, Catherine Lu allocates responsibility for transforming unjust global structures to the agents who participate in perpetuating and reproducing those structures. She also adopts Young’s qualitative distinction between the ‘liability’ and ‘social connection’ models of respo...
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| description | Following Iris Marion Young, Catherine Lu allocates responsibility for transforming unjust global structures to the agents who participate in perpetuating and reproducing those structures. She also adopts Young’s qualitative distinction between the ‘liability’ and ‘social connection’ models of responsibility, reserving the first for interactional injustice where identifiable victims and perpetrators are involved, and the second for structural injustice where unjust outcomes emerge without any identifiable wrongdoers. This article’s argument is that Young’s and Lu’s specific allocation of the burden for transforming unjust global structures makes sense only if we reject the notion of a qualitative distinction between two models of responsibility and acknowledge instead that there is continuity in the conceptual tools available for thinking about responsibility for both interactional and structural injustice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f3ec1f76b97345949273b398b06021542022-12-22T03:55:19ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEthics & Global Politics1654-49511654-63692018-01-01111132110.1080/16544951.2018.15128311512831Responsibility for structural injusticeFarid Abdel-Nour0San Diego State UniversityFollowing Iris Marion Young, Catherine Lu allocates responsibility for transforming unjust global structures to the agents who participate in perpetuating and reproducing those structures. She also adopts Young’s qualitative distinction between the ‘liability’ and ‘social connection’ models of responsibility, reserving the first for interactional injustice where identifiable victims and perpetrators are involved, and the second for structural injustice where unjust outcomes emerge without any identifiable wrongdoers. This article’s argument is that Young’s and Lu’s specific allocation of the burden for transforming unjust global structures makes sense only if we reject the notion of a qualitative distinction between two models of responsibility and acknowledge instead that there is continuity in the conceptual tools available for thinking about responsibility for both interactional and structural injustice.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2018.1512831Structural injusticeIris Marion Youngresponsibilitycausal responsibilityoutcome responsibilityremedial responsibilityBernard Williamsliability modelsocial-connection modelDavid Miller |
| spellingShingle | Farid Abdel-Nour Responsibility for structural injustice Ethics & Global Politics Structural injustice Iris Marion Young responsibility causal responsibility outcome responsibility remedial responsibility Bernard Williams liability model social-connection model David Miller |
| title | Responsibility for structural injustice |
| title_full | Responsibility for structural injustice |
| title_fullStr | Responsibility for structural injustice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Responsibility for structural injustice |
| title_short | Responsibility for structural injustice |
| title_sort | responsibility for structural injustice |
| topic | Structural injustice Iris Marion Young responsibility causal responsibility outcome responsibility remedial responsibility Bernard Williams liability model social-connection model David Miller |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2018.1512831 |
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