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Scales of justice : reimagining political space in a globalizing world / Nancy Fraser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraser, Nancy.
- Series:
- New directions in critical theory.
- New directions in critical theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Justice.
- Distributive justice.
- Globalization--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div><P>Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that ""Westphalian"" picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to open dispute. Today, however, human-rights activists and international feminists join critics of structural adjustment and the World Trade Organization in challenging the view that justice can only be a domestic relation among fellow citizens. Targeting injustices that cut across borders, they are making the scale of justice an object of expl
- Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction: Scales of Justice, the Balance and the Map; 2: Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World; 3: Two Dogmas of Egalitarianism; 4: Abnormal Justice; 5: Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Postwestphalian World; 6: Mapping the Feminist Imagination: From Redistribution to Recognition to Representation; 7: From Discipline to Flexibilization? Rereading Foucault in the Shadow of Globalization
- 8: Threats to Humanity in Globalization: Arendtian Reflections on the Twenty-First Century9: The Politics of Framing: An Interview with Nancy Fraser by Kate Nash and Vikki Bell; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612897818
- 9781282897816
- 1282897810
- 9780231519625
- 0231519621
- OCLC:
- 826476464
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