Structural injustice : power, advantage, and human rights / Madison Powers and Ruth Faden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, Madison, author.

Faden, Ruth R., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Power (Social sciences).

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 306 pages)

Other Title:

Power, advantage, and human rights

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

In this work, Madison Powers and Ruth Faden develop a theory of structural injustice that forges important links between human rights norms and fairness norms.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Structural Injustice

Plan of the chapters

Well-being

Place of well-being in our theory

Socratic and structural dependence arguments

Core elements

Decent human life

Alternative to universal endorsement approaches to justification

Three implications of the roles of our conception of well-being

What justice is

Moral importance and stringency

Claimability and specificity

Rightful enforceability

Unfairness norms

What structural injustice is

Significant impacts, structural components, and social groups

Social structural components and their systematic influence

Power, advantage, and social position

Background assumptions

Well-being and human rights

Function of rights

Dignity and well-being interests

Social functions of human rights

Inspirational counterpart duties and general responsibilities: a pragmatic approach

Responsibility of states

Normative uniqueness of state agency and its implications

Strong statist challenge

National self-determination arguments

Principle of Interstate reciprocity

Power of non-State institutions in the current global order

Real-world examples

National sacrifice zones: from Appalachia to Warren County

Globalization of sacrifice zones

Segregated cities: "two societies, separate and unequal

"Urban 'slums': the proliferation of informal human settlements

Resistance to injustice: activism and social movements

Individual responsibility in a nearly just society

Means and goals of resistance in less ideal circumstances

Targets of resistance: contributors and beneficiaries

Conclusion: well-being and social movements

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2019).

ISBN:

0-19-005400-X

0-19-005401-8

0-19-005399-2