Empire, race and global justice / edited by Duncan Bell

"Abject poverty. Yawning inequality, political, economic, and social. Human rights and their systematic abuse. Nationality, sovereignty, citizenship. The identification of historical injustices and their possible rectification. Migration flows and border politics. The legitimation, conduct, and cessation of war. Terrorism, terror, territory. Democracy beyond and between states. All of these topics and more are addressed in contemporary debates over global justice. They have motivated activism, spawning social movements, political protest, and legal campaigns. They are debated across a range of academic disciplines and discourses: sociologists, International Relations (IR) scholars, geographers, anthropologists, economists, and historians, have contributed important work on the subject. In political theory, global justice has been a core topic at least since the end of the cold war, its meaning, scope, and policy implications contested by groups of egalitarian cosmopolitans, libertarians, liberal nationalists, and statists, among others. The importance of the subject shows no sign of waning"-- Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: empire, race, and global justice Duncan Bell; 1. Reparations, history, and the origins of global justice Katrina Forrester; 2. The doctor's plot: the origins of the philosophy of human rights Samuel Moyn; 3. Corporations, universalism and the domestication of race in international law Sundhya Pahuja; 4. Race and global justice Charles W. Mills; 5. Association, reciprocity and emancipation: a transnational account of the politics of global justice Ines Valdez; 6. Global justice: just another modernisation theory? Anne Phillips; 7. Globalizing global justice Margaret Kohn; 8. Challenging liberal belief: Edward said and the critical practice of history Jeanne Morefield; 9. Cosmopolitan just war and coloniality Kimberley Hutchings; 10. Indigenous peoples, settler colonialism, and global justice in Anglo-America Robert Nichols; 11. Decolonizing borders, self-determination, and global justice Catherine Lu