GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beyond International Group, Procedural Justice, Deconstruction

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT3995
• Professor: Professor David Schlosberg

Document Summary

Theories of justice recognition and participation intro. Last week: two major ideal theories of distributional justice. Justice as a political problem vs justice as an ideal. Justice as understood and argued in political practice. Young: if you want to take difference seriously, you need to move beyond distribution alone. Distribution is a result of social relations. Oppression based in social structure, institutions, lack of recognition, little participation. First, they ignore institutional processes and contexts that determine distribution. Second, they don"t make sense for nonmaterial goods like rights. Can"t talk about the distribution" of rights the same way we do the distribution of goods. Young and fraser : the lack of recognition is an injustice in itself. It does harm to individuals it is also the foundation for distributive injustice. The key, for both, is group differences and the privilege, disparagement, and oppression that come with them. Fraser: justice includes both distribution and recognition.