| Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World Contributor(s): Fraser, Nancy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231146809 ISBN-13: 9780231146807 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction |
| Dewey: 320.011 |
| LCCN: 2008018716 |
| Series: New Directions in Critical Theory (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.02" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 J rgen 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. |