Scales of Justice : Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World /

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Author / Creator:Fraser, Nancy, author
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (x, 224 pages).
Language:English
Series:New directions in critical theory
New directions in critical theory.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11300250
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ISBN:9780231519625
0231519621
0231146817
9780231146814
1282897810
9781282897816
0231146817
9780231146814
9780231146807
0231146809
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that "Westphalia" 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 explicit struggle.
Other form:Print version: Fraser, Nancy. Scales of justice. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009
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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 explicit struggle.

Inspired by these efforts, Nancy Fraser asks: What is the proper frame for theorizing justice? Faced with a plurality of competing scales, how do we know which one is truly just? In exploring these questions, Fraser revises her widely discussed theory of redistribution and recognition. She introduces a third, "political" dimension of justice--representation--and elaborates a new, reflexive type of critical theory that foregrounds injustices of "misframing." Engaging with thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt, she envisions a "postwestphalian" mapping of political space that accommodates transnational solidarity, transborder publicity, and democratic frame-setting, as well as emancipatory projects that cross borders. The result is a sustained reflection on who should count with respect to what in a globalizing world.

Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 224 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231519625
0231519621
0231146817
9780231146814
1282897810
9781282897816
9780231146807
0231146809