Justice beyond 'Just Us': Dilemmas of Time, Place, and Difference in American Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781409402268)

Notions of justice and community in the United States are increasingly challenged by trends like immigration, multiculturalism, and economic inequality as well as historical legacies like Jim Crow-era racial segregation. These dynamics continually re-shape the communities in which people live, whether by generating new forms of interdependency and inequality, creating new social cleavages or exacerbating existing ones, or generating new spaces in which cross-boundary contact, conflict, or cooperation is possible. Revealing the ways in which notions of justice and community overlap in American politics and public discourse through concrete political questions which emerge when considering dimensions of time, place, and difference, Gregory W. Streich offers a fresh re-examination of the normative ideas of justice and community. He encourages Americans to move from a view of justice that applies only to people who are "like us" to a view of justice that applies to people beyond "just us."

Author: Gregory W. Streich
ISBN-10: 1409402266
ISBN-13: 9781409402268
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2011
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 97