The Borders of Justice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781439906859)

International in scope and featuring a diverse group of contributors, a"The Borders of Justice"ainvestigates the complexities of transitional justice that emerge from its OC social embeddedness.OCO This original and provocative collection of essays, which stem from a collective research program on social justice undertaken by the Calcutta Research Group, confronts the concept and practices of justice. The editors and contributors question the relationship between geography, methodology, and justiceOCohow and why justice is meted out differently in different places.

Expanding on Michael Walzer's idea of the OC spheres of justice, OCO the contributors argue that justice is burdened with our notions of social realities and expectations, in addition to the influence of money, law, and government. Chapters provide close readings of Pascal, Plato and Marx, theories on global justice, the relationship between liberalism and multiculturalism, struggles of social injustice, and how and where we draw the borders of justice.

Author: Etienne Balibar
ISBN-10: 1439906858
ISBN-13: 9781439906859
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2011
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d