With power comes responsibility : the politics of structural injustice / Maeve McKeown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKeown, Maeve, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences).

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

Summary:

What is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it? In answering these questions Maeve McKeown goes beyond the widely accepted narrative of unintended consequences and blameless participation to explain how power and responsibility truly function in today's world. Drawing on case studies from sweatshops to climate change, McKeown identifies three types of structural injustice: the pure and unintended accumulation of disparate activities; the avoidable injustice that could be ameliorated by the powerful but nevertheless continues; the deliberate perpetuation of structural processes that benefit powerful political and economic agents. In each of these, the role of power is different which changes the allocation of responsibility. From this understanding, we can shape a deeper, more sophisticated idea of how structural injustice operates and what we as individuals can do about it. What is the political responsibility of ordinary individuals? How can ordinary individuals with very little power pressure morally responsible, powerful agents to address structural injustice? Do we have the same responsibility for historical injustice as we do for that which we see in today's world? This is fundamental reassessment of the relationship between power, ordinary people and responsibility for structural injustice.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 From global justice to structural injustice

Chapter 2 What is structural injustice?

Chapter 3 Power and structural injustice

Chapter 4 Structural injustice in practice

Chapter 5 Moral responsibility

Chapter 6 Political responsibility

Chapter 7 Corporate responsibility and historical injustice

Chapter 8 Acting on political responsibility

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 12, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: McKeown, Maeve With power comes responsibility

ISBN:

9781350195790

1350195790

9781350195813

1350195812

9781350195806

1350195804

OCLC:

1414458389

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