Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought
Who has what and why in our societies is a pressing issue that has prompted explanation and exposition by philosophers, politicians and jurists for as long as societies and intellectuals have existed. It is a primary issue for a society to tackle this and these answers have been diverse.
This collection of essays approaches some of these questions and answers to shed light on neglected approaches to issues of distribution and how these issues have been dealt with historically, socially, conceptually and practically. The volume moves away from the more dominating and traditionally cast understandings of distributive justice and shows novel and unique ways to approach distributive issues and how these can help enlighten our course of action and thought today by creating new pathways of understanding. The editors and contributors challenge readers by exploring the role and importance of restorative justice within distributive justice, exploring the concepts of social and individual rights and obligations in welfare and economic systems, social protection/provision schemes, egalitarian practices and post-colonial African political thought.
Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought empowers the reader to cast a more critical and historically complete light on the idea of a fair share and the implications it has on societies and the individuals who comprise them.
Camilla Boisen is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Theory at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her area of research is on colonial political thought in relation to the development of ideas of property rights, trusteeship and humanitarian intervention and their influence on contemporary problems such as post-colonial restitution.
Matthew C. Murray is the Senior Project Advisor for the Growthpolicy.org project at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and serves as Special Lecturer of Philosophy at Providence College. Matthew is actively researching and publishing in the areas of critical theories of justice (subaltern, race, culture, gender and disability) and their effects on the ideas of and applications of distributive and social justice.
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
1 Hayek and After
Hayekian Liberalism as a Research Programme
Jeremy Shearmur
2 Conflicts in Social Science
Edited by Anton van Harskamp
3 Political Thought of Andr Gorz
Adrian Little
4 Corruption, Capitalism and Democracy
John Girling
5 Freedom and Culture in Western Society
Hans Blokland
6 Freedom in Economics
New Perspectives in Normative Analysis
Edited by Jean-Franois Laslier, Marc Fleurbaey, Nicolas Gravel and Alain Trannoy
7 Against Politics
On Government, Anarchy and Order
Anthony de Jasay
8 Max Weber and Michel Foucault
Parallel Life Works
Arpad Szakolczai
9 The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights
G. B. Madison
10 On Durkheims Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Edited by W. S. F. Pickering, W. Watts Miller and N. J. Allen
11 Classical Individualism
The Supreme Importance of
Each Human Being
Tibor R. Machan
12 The Age of Reasons
Quixotism, Sentimentalism and Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Wendy Motooka
13 Individualism in Modern Thought
From Adam Smith to Hayek
Lorenzo Infantino
14 Property and Power in Social Theory
A Study in Intellectual Rivalry
Dick Pels
15 Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory
A Critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar
Nigel Pleasants
16 Marxism and Human Nature
Sean Sayers
17 Goffman and Social Organization
Studies in a Sociological Legacy
Edited by Greg Smith
18 Situating Hayek
Phenomenology and the Neo-Liberal Project
Mark J. Smith
19 The Reading of Theoretical Texts
Peter Ekegren
20 The Nature of Capital
Marx after Foucault
Richard Marsden
21 The Age of Chance
Gambling in Western Culture
Gerda Reith
22 Reflexive Historical Sociology
Arpad Szakolczai
23 Durkheim and Representations
Edited by W. S. F. Pickering
24 The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky
Alison Edgley
25 Hayeks Liberalism and Its Origins
His Idea of Spontaneous Order and the Scottish Enlightenment
Christina Petsoulas
26 Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart
27 Living with Markets
Jeremy Shearmur
28 Durkheims Suicide
A Century of Research and Debate
Edited by W. S. F. Pickering and Geoffrey Walford
29 Post-Marxism
An Intellectual History
Stuart Sim
30 The Intellectual as Stranger
Studies in Spokespersonship
Dick Pels
31 Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science
A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas
Austin Harrington
32 Methodological Individualism
Background, History and Meaning
Lars Udehn
33 John Stuart Mill and Freedom of Expression
The Genesis of a Theory
K. C. ORourke
34 The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation
From Terror to Trauma
Michael Humphrey
35 Marx and Wittgenstein
Knowledge, Morality, Politics
Edited by Gavin Kitching and Nigel Pleasants
36 The Genesis of Modernity
Arpad Szakolczai
37 Ignorance and Liberty
Lorenzo Infantino
38 Deleuze, Marx and Politics
Nicholas Thoburn
39 The Structure of Social Theory
Anthony King
40 Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society
Deborah Cook
41 Tocquevilles Moral and Political Thought
New Liberalism
M. R. R. Ossewaarde
42 Adam Smiths Political Philosophy
The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order
Craig Smith
43 Social and Political Ideas of Mahatma Gandhi