Overview
"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 Jurgen 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."
Full Product Details
Author: Nancy Fraser
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Volume: 31
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.329kg
ISBN: 9780231146814
ISBN 10: 0231146817
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 24 August 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
Fraser makes a persuasive case that it is the theorist's duty to become acutely sensitive to globalization and all its effects. -- Noelle McAfee, Signs
Author Information
Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research and the author of Adding Insult to Injury: Debating Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation; Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (with Axel Honneth); Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the Postsocialist Condition; and Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory.
